Japanese Air-Self Defense Force (JASDF) induct new type into service...   

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you got watch this Movie/drama ....?

Are you trying to show the news or are you trying to sell the house? You agent or what?

you got watch this Movie/drama ....?

I have already said it was light frigates to begin with.
so dun expect much of its.

More than 11,000 soldiers from the Philippines, U.S. and Australia will take part in joint drills in the South China Sea, as the Philippines’ military chief called China’s building work on disputed reefs “worrisome” and a source of friction with its neighbors.

The reclamation “will cause tensions among claimant countries not only because it could deter freedom of navigation but also due to its possible military purposes,” General Gregorio Pio Catapang told reporters in Manila on Monday. China must “stop the reclamation activities and be mindful of its responsibilities as a claimant state and an important member of the international community.”

The comments come as 11,600 Filipino, U.S. and Australian soldiers -- twice as many as last year -- are set to join the war games off Palawan province near contested South China Sea islands. Disputes over the sea, of which China claims about four-fifths under a so-called nine-dash line drawn on a 1940s map, have escalated as China expands the reach of its military to back its territorial interests.

China’s actions have caused uneasiness for neighbors such as Vietnam and the Philippines who also claim some of the waters. It has also raised concern among countries that use the sea lanes for trade and commerce, Catapang said. “The size of this reclamation is making us wonder what the real intention is,” he said.

‘National Defense’

The military drills, which run until April 30, seek to “improve our interoperability and enhance our national defense capability,” Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Evan Garcia told reporters after the opening of the annual Balikatan -- shoulder-to-shoulder in Filipino -- war games on Monday. “Our armed forces needs to improve its own capacity in order to better serve and protect our country.”

Catapang said the drills are not directed against China. He said a U.S. plan to deploy advanced air force and naval equipment in the Philippines is in the works.

“We will offer them facilities that we can jointly use because of the situation now obtaining in the West Philippine Sea,” Catapang said, referring to the South China Sea.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario last week said the Philippines is seeking increased support from the U.S. “in terms of being able to take a stronger position.” “The Philippines is saying we should get together and study how we can uphold the rule of law together,” he told ABS-CBN News Channel.

China has often stated its right to carry out construction work in the South China Sea, with recent satellite photos showing images of Chinese dredgers at work at Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, a feature also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan.

“I’ve got to find something that’s going to prepare my Marines for something that many of them probably haven’t done before, and that we can’t really reproduce that they are going to feel in combat in training,” said Col. Kurt Sanger, a judge advocate and law instructor in the U.S. Marine Corps. “That’s why I think adding technology and video games and virtual reality is such a valuable tool the Department of Defense can now count on, because it can get closer to reality.”

Col. Sanger was on a panel of speakers who met this month to discuss how video games could be redesigned to address issues like the Law of Armed Conflict and the standards of international humanitarian law at the the American Society of International Law’s annual meeting in Washington.

With video and computer games now a $45 billion-plus global industry, and with a huge number of gamers among the young, members of the panel argued that video games can be a serious business — for good or ill.

The U.S. Air Force is winnowing down its fleet of EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack planes.

The 15 high-tech jammers belong to the 55th Electronic Combat Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. But if the flying branch has its way, it will retire seven at the turn of the fiscal year in October, according to the Pentagon's budget request.

They're few in number, but highly important planes. These are same EC-130Hs that twice shut down Saddam Hussein's air defenses, and helped American pilots and troops return home alive from the conflicts in Kosovo, Haiti, Panama, Serbia and more recently Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Compass Calls are heavily-modified C-130s that carry advanced jammers and counter-radar equipment to shut down just about any wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum.

This allows U.S. warplanes to penetrate sophisticated air-defense systems and avoid detection by early warning radars. The EC-130H can even take down enemy command-and-control networks.

since when we have 54 astross?
so what up with all the aster 30 vls lah, RAM CIW lah, et cetera?

Given the price tag I think it would be reasonable with proper ciws not those kesian ds30.
besides who said light frigates cannot have ciws? At least get millennium ciws though it would be best we go for searams.
I do prefer we go for essm but dun think we can afford it given the maximum of USD2.8bil on the sgpv budget.

when in doubt, buy another 18

Some TLDM pilots sent to familiarize with seahawk.

FRCSE hosts Indonesian military for familiarization visit.



Photos by Kaylee LaRocque
HSM-74 pilots and maintenance personnel gather near an MH-60R "Romeo" helicopter with a group of Indonesian naval officers visiting the squadron on Nov. 3. The guests toured several facilities at NAS Jacksonville including the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Jax, Fleet Readiness Center Southeast and HSM-74.

why not get 18 Self-propelled howitzer

I don't think the army will satisfied until we have at least 5 regiments (1 regiment: 18 launcher) of them astross II, 2 stationed in east malaysia while 3 stationed in peninsula.

at this rate i think the hueland will even throw blueprint on how to make munitions for our launchers for free. we're one of biggest astross user after all

still, sph juga tidak dilupa

Asia needs new military balance, says top Indonesia general



As the region becomes increasingly concerned over China's rapid expansion in the South China Sea, Moeldoko said on Monday that Asia needs "a new balance."

"There are significant changes in the stable and calm conditions that existed in the region a decade ago," he added.

As a result of heightening tensions in the region, Indonesia plans to upgrade its military forces in Natuna and Tanjung Datu, areas near China's claims in South China Sea.

The potentially energy-rich areas are at the center of ongoing disputes between China and the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. China denies, however, that its actions in its own territory are provocative.

Moeldoko, who retires as military commander in July, wants to bring together the US, Japan, China and Southeast Asian nations at a regional defense summit next year in the hopes of easing tensions.

Anti-'Islamic State'

Speaking from Indonesia's military headquarters on Monday, Moeldoko also announced that Indonesia's military has launched its first counter-terrorism operation since the Jakarta hotel bombings. The offence will focus on the eastern island of Sulawesi in a bid to track down suspected 'Islamic State' (IS) militants.

"We have one battalion now stationed there to observe and understand the terrain," Moeldoko said, adding that the operation would last for six months.

Economic enticement

The region's geopolitical tensions were also a key theme at Asia's edition of the World Economic Forum in Indonesia on Monday. Some 700 business chiefs and government leaders were due to descend upon the event, known as "Asia's Davos." President Joko Widodo hopes to use the forum to lure investors and show his commitment to reform.

Indonesia has enjoyed strong growth in recent years, driven by demand for its natural resources, foreign investment and a fast-emerging middle class. But there are fears that tensions in the South China sea could undermine the hard-won economic gains.

Indonesia is currently 114th in the World Bank's latest rankings on the ease of doing business, out of 189 countries.

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