A minigun has a higher rate of fire.

yes, Airport Bomba under Airport management direct manage (MAB), well out side airport is under Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat (JBPM).
For fire engine is No and Yes,
well The Fire engine in picture is Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 is come with 12,000 Liter water and 1500L foam, water pump is 7000L/minutes and fireman train specialist for aircraft/helis fire.
For JBPM fire engine main issue is the fire trunk lack of monitors (boom), can't put aircraft fire at 30-60 meter distance, so it have to use fire nozzles and very close to aircraft/helis, this is very danger. other than JBMP newer Benz and Scania fire truck already come with foam and high-Low water pump, too, but just carry about 150 Liter foam and 3600 Liter water at Scania fire truck, 2000 Liter water at Benz fire truck, both water pump just about 2000L/minutes. all water can use up in 10-15 minitus, so not 100% efficient for aircraft fire. just suitable for car/lorry/bus kind of fire, also there fireman i can said they can put down aircraft fire but than no specialist training in aircraft fire, , means issue JBPM facing now is they no enough budget to buy more class A foam. so u can see they JBPM Bomba sell-them use foam at fire unless very critical situation.
150L Class A foam cost about about RM2000. Can be proportioned from 0.1% to 1.0% (means 0.1L to 1Liter/100 Liter water) usually proportioned at 0.6%.
I see Airport Bomba should also managed by JBPM (maybe under airport fire section), than the fireman can explore more different job, it can rotate by other fireman to gain more experience.

This post has been edited by waja2000: May 28 2015, 09:29 PM

Wah so thorough, and here I thought they only hired someone to spray water if there's a fire.

But what's the chances murica will duduk diam diam?

Singapore is threaten, Aussie probably will voice out too, and even if they don't, American is already here!!haha

But what ever China do, I think it'll trigger a chain effect, roping in the whole of SEA, and japs and SK.

That's why I don't like this type of alliances. Too many interest and too many issues.

This type of alliance is like a group of mountain climbers that tie themselves together with rope to keep safe. In some situation it is useful but if one screws up and slips down a cliff, he can potentially take everyone down with him whether they like it or not.

For fire foam already have 7-8 type of foam and powder to use different kind of fire.
Fireman just like maf, they need to know all kind of rescue and fire.
handle the firetruck water pump, aerial fire truck .... analyst fire type， strategic to put down fire.
just same like MAF,JBPM also lack of budget, to setup more fire house and crew, about 26000 people at JBPM now. ideally JBPM need 40K crew member
our Fire/rescue level only at middle level, lack of high tech powerful big fire truck and super high aerial fire truck to put down "big" fire like Chemical Industry， oil industry，big building fire。
also not enough fire rule at high raise building design, out date fire hydrant standard and always facing low water supply pressure from local gov.

This post has been edited by waja2000: May 28 2015, 09:55 PM

But I got a feeling all this is stage, just a show!

They've made a move, and forces the state to show hand!

Now they would see how murican react and probably have a grander scale of plans!

African is literally their now, India pakis probably a push over to them, Russian is with them all the time, and honestly SK and japs are just insects for now!

Modern day colonialism

Another photo of the vehicle, looks like just a custom setup and clearly not for real ops



Credit to [NS shah images]

This post has been edited by KYPMbangi: May 28 2015, 10:15 PM

Swedish & Indonesian Saab-Lundin Stealth Fast Attack Craft. The Indonesian Navy have ordered four with a plan of up to 20 units. (Photos by bk9sw)











https://www.tinhte.vn/threads/imdex-2015-ca...-group.2462749/

This post has been edited by azriel: May 28 2015, 10:18 PM

Looks fragile as hell. A good shot amidships with any kind of heavy weapon would snap the hull like a piece of plywood.

wow the guy on top machiem navy seal..

Also love the way they strap the ammo box with some flimsy webbing rope only. I scared the box can topple anytime the vehicle hit a pothole and drag the minigun with it.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: May 28 2015, 10:30 PM

need more KIM Jong Un picture

I actually didn't know the US Navy is, by US law, required to have 11 supercarriers at all times. Funny stuff.



Although some observers are concerned that the reliance on supercarriers and their corresponding escort vessels to maintain US maritime superiority is simply costing the US government way too much money by their massive operational costs and eroding the funds available for the consruction of smaller, more utilitarian but very important warships like Frigates and OPV/Corvettes.

The issue of the exorbitant cost of a supercarrier and its air wing is also called into question how much combat effectiveness the US Navy will retain if it ever lost a number of its supercarriers in a shooting war. Because a supercarrier holds a significant amount of cost and equipment, it is arguable that the loss of even a single supercarrier (and its corresponding air wing) will deal a significant blow to the US Navy because of the great cost attached to the ship.

Some also state that the sheer size of the supercarrier and its corresponding battlefleet's electronic and radar activity make it impossible to hide its presence to any determined attacker.

In 1982 the influential US Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover was asked by the US congress on how long does he estimate America's supercarriers will survive in an actual war.
His answer was chilling: "48 hours".

Germany Lacked Will and Money to Implement Armata Project – German Media



The basic concept of the Russian Armata tank was developed 30 years ago in Western countries and even tested in Germany. However, Germany lacked the political will and financial resources to implement the project, the German newspaper reported.

The tank concept was once considered a potential replacement for the current Germany’s Leopard 2. Industry experts point out that a new battle tank could have been built a long time ago.

However, the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union have brought major German military projects to a standstill. After the end of the Cold War, the ‘threat from the East’ disappeared and Germany did not see any urgent necessity to continue the arms race.

Now, Russia managed to produce the newest battle tanks based on a German concept. For Germany itself the production of similar Leopard-2 successors could take more than 15 years, experts claim.

"Armata is a wake-up call from the sleep into which we had fallen in early nineties," an industry expert said under condition of anonymity.

According to him, the new Armata T-14 has obvious advantages, even compared to modern variants of the Leopard 2.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150528/1022676133.html

HACKED EMAILS REVEAL RUSSIAN PLANS TO OBTAIN SENSITIVE WESTERN TECH







https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/...ront-operation/

Darpa demonstrates lidar on a chip - E & T Magazine



American defence research agency Darpa has developed a lidar system small enough to be integrated on a microchip yet offering better performance than conventional bulky mechanical devices.

A more precise alternative to radar, measuring distances using laser beams instead of radio waves, lidar is essential for many military capabilities including autonomous navigation, chemical-biological sensing, precision targeting and communications.

Until today, lidar devices have required bulky mechanical assemblies to sweep the laser beam around, which are both expensive and sensitive to mechanical shocks and fluctuations of temperature. The use of the technology has therefore so far been limited.

Darpa’s researchers working under the Short-range Wide-field-of-view Extremely agile Electronically steered Photonic EmitteR (SWEEPER) programme have now announced a major breakthrough that could pave the way for more widespread adoption of lidar technology.

“By finding a way to steer lasers without mechanical means, we’ve been able to transform what currently is the largest and most expensive part of laser-scanning systems into something that could be inexpensive, ubiquitous, robust and fabricated using the same manufacturing technology as silicon microchips, said Josh Conway, Darpa programme manager.

“This wide-angle demonstration of optical phased array technology could lead to greatly enhanced capabilities for numerous military and commercial technologies, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, sensors and high-data-rate communications.”

The new device, which can be integrated onto a microchip, is not only small and simple. It also offers significant improvements compared to traditional devices. Its silicon-based laser consisting of billions of light-emitting dots can be swept around more than 10,000 times faster than what is currently possible with mechanical lidar systems – up to 100,000 per second.

Moreover, it can steer the laser precisely across a 51-degree arc, offering the widest field of view of all chip-scale optical scanning systems.

The device relies on the so called phased-array techniques developed in the 1960s for radar technology. Phased arrays use carefully engineered surfaces to control the direction of selected electromagnetic signals by varying the phase across many small antennas.

The technology, revolutionary at its time, enabled using multiple beams and rapid scanning speeds, as well as the ability to shape the arrays into curved surfaces.

However, using the concept with optical technology presented many challenges. As optical wavelengths are thousands of times smaller than those of radio waves used by radar, elements of the array must be placed within only a few microns of each other. The manufacturing requires extreme precision as deviations as small as 100 nanometres can affect performance.

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/may/lidar-on-chip.cfm

Russia To Buy At Least 50 Tu-160 Blackjack Bombers, Production Likely To Complete Ahead Of Time



Russia will purchase at least 50 Tupolev Tu-160 “Blackjack” heavy strategic bombers when the aircraft's production is renewed, Russian Air Force Commander Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev announced Thursday. The Tu-160 strategic bombers will be produced simultaneously with the country’s new bomber, called PAK DA.

“The production of the aircraft will be restarted,” Russia’s TASS news agency quoted Bondarev as saying. "To cover all the outlay of the production, at least 50 aircraft will be purchased in course of time.”

According to Bondarev, the revival of the Tu-160 production will not interfere with the production of the PAK DA aircraft, which is expected to make its first flight in 2019. The PAK DA bombers are likely to be part of the Russian Air Force in 2023-2025 and would replace existing bpmbers including the Tu-160, Tu-22M3 “Backfire” and Tu-95 “Bear.”

In late April, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had reportedly ordered the resumption of the production of Tu-160 bombers at the Kazan aviation plant in the Republic of Tatarstan in the Volga Federal District. The director of the Kazan aviation plant said Tuesday that the modernization of 16 existing Tu-160 bombers is expected to be completed in 2019, instead of 2020 as previously estimated, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly reported.

According to the report, the modernization of Tu-160 bombers includes two major phases. The first phase, which is now completed, involves strengthening the aircraft’s armament, to carry 12 conventional long-range cruise missiles and laser-guided bombs. The second phase focuses on replacing the jet’s radar, electronic navigation and communication systems, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly reported, adding that the aircraft's engines will also be upgraded at a later date.

In addition to Tu-160 and PAK DA, Russia is also working on its fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, known as PAK FA, which will enter service in 2016.

“We’re completing the aircraft tests and from 2017 they will be serially supplied,” Bondarev said, according to TASS. The PAK FA jets “will not be in any way inferior to US F-22 and F-35 fighters and will surpass them by all practical parameters.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-buy-least-50...ad-time-1941450

Pentagon looking at integrating anti-missiles, lasers and railguns against expected future missile filled battlefield









http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/05/pentagon-...ating-anti.html