about usd 100-110 million each
Yes if we are only looking for only a tactical airlift replacement of the C130s then will be the C-130J also C-27J, C-295, now add new model KC-390, AN-178

However over the year ATM can't move our some strategic hardware or large item during logistic requirement or operation , also long and far place on UN mission, so we need to add some strategic airlifters capability and long range， so only have A400M and C17 in market, Russia IL76 is out off question.
also we already bough CN235, getting new C130J look like redundant.

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jun 30 2015, 10:00 PM

instead of that we should be looking for longer range tanker compared to our current KC130

like 2 330 MRTT

A-1310 sudah resmi digunakan TNI AU sejak 18 April 1961," demikian dikutip dari situs Indomiliter

http://news.liputan6.com/read/2262865/hany...-jatuh-di-medan

RIP and condolences.. that is massive casualties

agree .....
a lease no need to rent MAS/AA plane already.
but just no hope on that...
anyway our A400M will fit refueling module later. which able to provide 3-4 time refuelling for Su-30 or 5-6 time for F18.

That one still a buddy buddy refuelling rather than a dedicated tanker

Just the numbers brah.before this they werent flying much but as the frequency of flights increase so does the risk of accidents

LONG-RANGE BOMBERS WILL GET HIGHLY ACCURATE CELESTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM



In Russia for long-range bombers designed celestial navigation system ANS-2009 which allows you to accurately determine the coordinates of the aircraft on the basis of data on the position of the stars. This is stated in the message of concern “Radio-electronic technology ‘(KRET) Received” Heathcliff! “.

“This method is the most reliable in combat when navigation satellite systems can be disabled by the adversary. ANS-2009 can be installed on a plane with the strapdown inertial navigation systems do not require an external guidance or signals coming from outside “- said deputy general director Vladimir Mikheev KRET.

With the company noted that the integration on board the aircraft of different navigation systems (strapdown inertial satellite and astronavigation) allows you to create fully autonomous navigation system that is able to obtain precise coordinates due to the correction.

Mikheyev said that backlog resulting in the work on the ANS-2009 it will be used to develop a new strategic bomber program “PAK DA” (PAK DA).

Earlier reported that in Russia the strapdown navigation system SINS-2015 capable of autonomously determine the location of the aircraft without correction for external sources of information. For fighter T-50 developed the program “Sukhoi PAK FA” (PAK FA) was Create combined precision navigation system SINS-SP2M system that can operate both in terms of acquiring satellites GLONASS and autonomously.

See also: brazil will buy Russian air defense systems “armor” at the beginning of 2016.

http://rushincrash.com/forces/long-range-b...igation-system/

Indian Army seeks designs for futuristic combat vehicle



New Delhi: Intending to replace the Soviet-origin T-72 tanks, the Army has invited proposals from domestic and foreign firms for designing a ‘Future Ready Combat Vehicle’, significantly at a time when DRDO is already working on such a project.

The Army has issued a Request for Information (RFI) inviting responses from companies by July 31 to design the vehicle which will form the “base platform for the Main Battle Tank which is planned to replace the existing T-72 tanks in the Armoured Corps”.

The RFI is open to both domestic and international firms. According to the Army, the best design will be chosen and given to nominated developing agency for production of the prototypes.

The selected prototype will be given to production agency, which could be a domestic firm, for bulk production, defence sources said.

“The FRCV (Future Ready Combat Vehicle) is planned to be a design and development project, to be executed in three stages - design stage, prototype development stage and production stage,” it said.

The RFI added that a ‘Future’ Combat Platform design must cater for ‘future’ battlefield environment and technological possibilities.

To address the future battlefield scenario and the envisaged force profile in the coming years, the FRCV needs to be developed on a modular concept with a high degree of flexibility in a manner that, as a tank platform, it can address the varying requirements of different terrain configurations, it said.

At the same time it can provide the base on which a ‘Family of Vehicles’, catering to the operational needs of various arms of the Army, can be developed. The move is significant as the country’s premier defence research agency DRDO is already working on technology for a futuristic tank - Future Main Battle Tank (FMBT).

The Army has earlier been at loggerheads with the DRDO over the Arjun tank that it had developed. Asked about Army’s RFI, Director of DRDO’s Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE), which is working on the FMBT, told PTI, “We have a long-term perspective plan from the Army.

We are working on the technology development and will continue with it”. DRDO officials expressed surprise over Army’s RFI and are wondering why it was issued when it is already working on it. They are hoping that the Ministry of Defence, which has been pushing for ‘Make in India’, will look into the issue.

A senior official noted, “DRDO has been doing well with the Air Force and the Navy but always hits a roadblock when it comes to the Army”.

Meanwhile, defence sources maintained that the RFI is open to all and even the DRDO can take part. They added that the idea behind the move is that the Army gets to know the various design options that are available based on which a final selection can be made.

http://m.indiatvnews.com/news/india/indian...icle-52081.html

Meet China’s New Submarine Hunter Plane



The four-engined Y-8GX6 (Y-8Q) turboprop anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft has purportedly finally entered service with the Chinese Naval Air Force after several years of testing, according to IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly.

IHS Jane’s bases its report on an article published on a Chinese defense site, which notes that the ASW variant of the Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation (SAC) Y-8/Y-9 medium transport aircraft has been inducted into the North Sea Fleet.

The report neither elaborates on the number of aircraft that have entered service nor the precise induction date. However, it notes that the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s East and South Sea Fleet’s will receive the plane only at a later date.

Equipped with air-launched torpedoes (e.g., Yu-7), anti-ship missiles, sea mines, and sonobuoys the plane has an estimated maximum range of approximately 5,00 km and, according to Popular Science Magazine, can potentially carry over ten tons.

Popular Science Magazine also notes that due to the plane’s size, it may act as a command center for Chinese underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) such as the Haiyan glider–China’s first autonomous underwater glider that can dive up to 1,500 meters deep and boasts a range of 1,000 kilometers.

The Y-8GX6, partially based on the Soviet Antonov AN-12, was first revealed in November 2011 and is intended to replace three aging Harbin-SH 5 ASW planes, which first entered service in 1986. Up until the induction of the first Y-8GX6 the Harbin-SH 5 constituted PLAN’s sole long-range aerial ASW capability.

Popular Science Magazine discusses some of the more noteworthy features of the plane:

The Y-8Q’s most distinctive feature is its seven-meter-long Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) boom, which detects the magnetic signature of enemy submarines’ metal hulls as the Y-8Q flies over them. Since MAD performance correlates to size, and it’s seven-meter MAD boom is arguably the largest of its kind among airplanes, the PLAN would have a fine weapon for hunting otherwise stealthy submarines.

Two Y-8GX6 prototypes have been tested thoroughly for the past several years the article also states. In addition, Popular Science Magazine provides a succinct analysis of the long-term technological implications of China’s most recent ASW asset and what the future may hold in store:

Since the Y-8Q is extending Anti-Access/Area Denial operations underwater, it is almost a given that China is going to invest in future ASW methods. In the future, the Y-8Q may be equipped with more exotic technologies like LIDAR (which uses laser beams to penetrate water to detect objects), hard kill anti-torpedo systems, acoustic signals intelligence and radiation detection (identify radiation from nuclear reactors) that Chinese scientists are already beginning to research.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/meet-chinas...e-hunter-plane/

F-16 aircraft tracks multiple targets with Legion Pod



ORLANDO, Fla. An F-16 completed a flight test of tracking multiple targets with Lockheed Martin’s Legion Pod in Fort Worth, Texas. Additional flight tests will continue throughout the year on the F-16 and F-15C.

According to company officials, no hardware or software changes where made to the aircraft with the integration of the Legion Pod onto the F-16.

Legion Pod provides high-fidelity detection and tracking of airborne targets. It is equipped with an IRST21 infrared sensor and advanced networking and data processing technology.

http://mil-embedded.com/news/f-16-tracks-m...ith-legion-pod/

Malaysia apologizes for breaching Indonesia’s border

The Indonesian Military (TNI) said on Tuesday that Malaysia had apologized for an illegal crossing carried out by one of its helicopters on Sebatik Island, North Kalimantan.

TNI spokesman Maj. Gen. Fuad Basya said that the neighboring country had sent an apology letter after the Indonesian Foreign Ministry asked for clarification from the Malaysian government.

Fuad said that the letter explained that the pilot, who was carrying a Malaysian minister as a passenger, did not see clearly the border between the two countries.

“He [the pilot] wanted to avoid landing in a wet field, so instead he flew the helicopter into our territory,” Fuad said as quoted by tempo.co on Tuesday.

Despite the apology, TNI plans to file a protest with the Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Ministry.

The Malaysian helicopter, on which Malaysian Home Minister Datuj Sri Ahmad Zaid Hamidi was reported to be a passenger, landed on Tuesday on Sebatik Island without permission.

The chopper remained on the ground for about five minutes, but no one got out. When a TNI soldier approached it, the aircraft took off again and returned to Malaysian territory. (ika)(+++)

- See more at: http://m.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/3...h.Lqznsygr.dpuf

I'd imagine TNI-AU will be grounding the fleet pending investigations, but can they afford a grounded fleet? As I understand TNI needs its long-haul transport aircraft running at a high tempo because of the long distances between territories.

Vietnam Gets Fourth Submarine from Russia amid South China Sea Tensions



The fourth of six Kilo-class submarines Vietnam bought from Russia arrived on Tuesday amid continued tensions in the South China Sea, local media sources reported.

According to Thanh Nien News, the submarine, codenamed HQ-185 Da Nang, arrived at Cam Ranh Port in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on Tuesday morning transported by the Dutch-registered cargo ship Rolldock Storm. It was part of a deal Vietnam reached with Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards for six Project 636 Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines for $2 billion back in 2009. Under the agreement, signed during Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s visit to Moscow, Russia agreed to provide the submarines, train Vietnamese crews and supply necessary spare parts.

The HQ-185 was reportedly launched on March 28, 2014 at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg, Russia, and had a trial run on the Baltic Sea. It set sail for Vietnam in the middle of May this year.

The remaining two submarines are expected to be delivered to Vietnam by 2016. The fifth, codenamed HQ-186 Khanh Hoa, underwent a trial run in the Baltic Sea on June 8.

The latest delivery comes amidst simmering disputes in the South China Sea, where both Vietnam and China are claimants alongside the Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan. In just this month alone, Vietnamese fishing craft have clashed with Chinese boats near the disputed Paracel Islands, while reports last week indicated that Beijing had redeployed an oil rig near contested waters. On Tuesday, China also announced that its some of its land reclamation projects had been completed, and that the focus would now shift to the construction of facilities on these features, which, as I emphasized previously, would also include military equipment (See: “The Truth About China’s South China Sea Land Reclamation Announcement“).

The Kilo-class submarines are some considered to be one of the quietest diesel submarines in the world, and are designed for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface-ship warfare. Several analysts, including Carlyle Thayer at The Diplomat, have explored how Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) may use them to counter Chinese naval capabilities in the South China Sea.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/vietnam-get...a-sea-tensions/

arjunk 2.0?

KC-130B....bought in 1964

Even C-130H that replaced C-130B has started to retire....in turn already replaced by C-130J...true granddaddy of C-130

May the souls of the deceased rest in peace......

Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight: New Stealth Fighter Is Dead Meat In An Air Battle
(Source: War is Boring blog; posted June 29, 2015)
A test pilot has some very, very bad news about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The pricey new stealth jet can’t turn or climb fast enough to hit an enemy plane during a dogfight or to dodge the enemy’s own gunfire, the pilot reported following a day of mock air battles back in January.

“The F-35 was at a distinct energy disadvantage,” the unnamed pilot wrote in a scathing five-page brief that War Is Boring has obtained. The brief is unclassified but is labeled “for official use only.”

The test pilot’s report is the latest evidence of fundamental problems with the design
of the F-35 — which, at a total program cost of more than a trillion dollars, is history’s most expensive weapon.

The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps — not to mention the air forces and navies of more than a dozen U.S. allies — are counting on the Lockheed Martin-made JSF to replace many if not most of their current fighter jets.

And that means that, within a few decades, American and allied aviators will fly into battle in an inferior fighter — one that could get them killed … and cost the United States control of the air.

The fateful test took place on Jan. 14, 2015, apparently within the Sea Test Range over the Pacific Ocean near Edwards Air Force Base in California. The single-seat F-35A with the designation “AF-02” — one of the older JSFs in the Air Force — took off alongside a two-seat F-16D Block 40, one of the types of planes the F-35 is supposed to replace. (end of excerpt)


http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-v...t-dogfight.html

while dogfighting capabilities definitely shouldn't be neglected, aren't the F-35s' BVR capabilities already pretty stellar? this article sounds pretty sensationalist, imo