please revive A -10 Warthog!

Thanks to big daddy Saudi Arabia's $3 Billion USD military aid, Lebanon is now set to receive tons of refurbished french equipment. Incoming assets include 5 EC725 transport helicopters, 10 Gazelle light assault helicopters, 3 D'Estienne d'Orves-class OPV/corvettes and modern surveillace/detection equipment for border protection. The deal also includes 10 years of maintenance and servicing contracts for these assets.


A French Navy D'Estienne d'Orves-class OPV/Corvette. The Lebanese Armed forces is set to receive 3 of these warships from France

Alongside the hardware deals, the French Army has also agreed to institute a training and advisory agreement where they will train and advise the Lebanese Armed forces for a period of 7 years, plus Lebanese officers and NCOs will also be sent to French military academies to introduce the Lebanese Army to a modern military doctrine.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: May 26 2015, 08:55 AM

Lipoting in!

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cepatnya dah V17

maybe aku jarang masuk kot lol

Singapore, China complete inaugural bilateral naval exercise


The RSS Valiant (left) and RSS Intrepid (right) participating in a manoeuvring exercise with the Yulin (middle). (Photo: People's Liberation Army [Navy])

Singapore and China's navies complete their first-ever four-day Exercise Maritime Cooperation, which involves the RSS Intrepid, the RSS Valiant and the Yulin frigate.

SINGAPORE: The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and China’s People’s Liberation Army (Navy) on Monday (May 25) concluded a new joint naval exercise, hailed as a "milestone in the bilateral defence relationship", by Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF).

The inaugural four-day Exercise Maritime Cooperation series involved RSN’s RSS Intrepid frigate and RSS Valiant missile corvette, as well as China’s Yulin frigate. The exercise involved conventional naval warfare serials, such as gunnery firings and manoeuvring drills, said MINDEF in a news release.

Personnel from both navies also took part in exercise planning and combined simulator training.

Both navies “can learn from each other and deepen professional knowledge to strengthen mutual trust and understanding,” said RSN Fleet commander Colonel Lew Chuen Hong, in highlighting the growth in professional interactions between RSN and the Chinese navy.

“Exercise Maritime Cooperation reflects our common goals and beliefs, and is a new achievement of the exchanges and interactions between both our navies," said Commander South Sea Fleet Rear Admiral Shen Jinlong from the Chinese navy.

MINDEF said the new bilateral naval exercise underscores warm and growing ties between the two countries, as they mark 25 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties this year.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singap...te/1871162.html

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3-days bora2

NATO and Nordics hold sub-Arctic wargames



Nordic air force exercises simulating a UN peacekeeping mission got underway in Sweden's sub-Arctic north, the Swedish armed forces said.

STOCKHOLM: Nordic air force exercises simulating a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission got underway in Sweden's sub-Arctic north on Monday (May 25), the Swedish armed forces said.

The war games - involving 115 fighter planes and 3,600 troops from nine countries - are being held under the auspices of Nordic military cooperation between non-aligned Sweden and Finland and their NATO neighbour Norway. Joining the Nordic nations were troops and planes from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands - all Nato members - as well as neutral Switzerland - using bases in the far north of Sweden, Norway and Finland.

"I'm looking forward to exercises that prepare Sweden's and Europe's airforces for future challenges and missions," Colonel Carl-Johan Edstroem, head of Sweden's northern air force fleet, said in a statement at the launch of the Arctic Challenge Exercise (ACE). "We create our security together with others and that means we need to train," he added.

Similar exercises involving fewer countries were held in 2013.

The manoeuvres come at a time of heightened tension in the region as Nordic countries report increased Russian airforce activity close to their borders.

In April all five Nordic defence ministers published an op-ed article in a Norwegian daily announcing closer military cooperation. "The Russian military are acting in a challenging way along our borders," they wrote, adding that "we must be prepared to face possible crises or incidents."



The exercises continue until June 4 and will be followed on June 5 by NATOs annual Baltops (Baltic Operations) manoeuvres with 4,500 troops from 17 countries.

"These kinds of activities send a security policy signal that demonstrates that we can carry out advanced operations," said Swedish Major General Karl Engelbrektson in a statement. "At the same time we're showing solidarity towards the other participants, especially our nearest neighbours."

- AFP/fl

Pakistani K-8 trainer aircraft crashes in Swabi, pilots eject safely



PESHAWAR: A training aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday.

In a short statement, PAF spokesperson Air Commodore SM ALi said that a K-8 trainer aircraft was destroyed when it crashed during a training mission in Zaida village of KP's Swabi district.

The spokesman added that both pilots of the aircraft ejected safely.



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Reporting in for the new thread...

Russia begins massive Air Force exercise involving 250 aircraft



Russia's military forces have begun a large exercise involving around 250 aircraft and 12,000 service personnel, according to its defence ministry.
The ministry described the four-day drill as a "massive surprise inspection", to check combat readiness.

The tests began on the same day as Nato and some of its partners started an Arctic training exercise.

Russia's actions in Ukraine and incursions into Western airspace have led to rising tensions with the West.

According to reports on the Russian agencies Interfax and Tass, the inspection of the aviation group and air defence forces in the central military district involves almost 700 weapons and pieces of military hardware.

During the exercise, Russia's long-range aircraft are due to carry out cruise missile strikes on practice targets in the Komi republic.
The current drills are in preparation for a larger exercise known as Center-2015 scheduled to run in the next few months.

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Mission completed!

boyan offer modernized( new avionic,updated engine and fuselage,hud,rearmament) for export

so far republic of china is interested

can smoke them mundu to kingdom come apa tunggu lg ...;

Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/2...n/#.VWQuMFLryKF

This post has been edited by azriel: May 26 2015, 04:31 PM

1947 Rand McNally map lists some S China Sea islands as Chinese



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The word "China" is shown underneath the Paracel Islands in parenthesis on the map made by Rand McNally in 1947. (Internet photo)

A 1947 map by American map publisher Rand McNally in 1947 gave China ownership over many islands in the South China Sea, the state-run China News Service reported Sunday.

CNS cited a report in Hong Kong's Ming Pao the same day as saying that a Collier's World Atlas and Gazetteer published in 1947 was recently spotted at a secondhand store in Vancouver.

In the collection, a map drawn by Rand McNally and titled Popular Map of China, French Indochina, Siam and Korea, contains detailed descriptions of the South China Sea islands and says that China owns some of the islands. The Paracels are specifically labeled as Chinese territory, according to the Ming Pao report.

The World Atlas and Gazetteer was published two years after World War II, when the US was desperate for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to prevail in their civil war against Mao Zedong's Communists.

The book also contains a Rand McNally-drawn map of the Philippines and Spratly Islands. Although the Philippines have maintained close relations with the United States, none of six names the map producer used to identify the archipelago are Philippine terms, the report said.

The report also said that China's sovereignty claim over the South China Sea islands can be traced to before the Industrial Revolution.

Thitu island in the Spratlys, currently occupied by the Philippines which calls it Pag-asa, is labeled as Thi Tu Island on the old map. In the center of Thi Tu, there is a temple built by Chinese people in the Qing Dynasty, the report said. China refers to the islands as Zhongye island.

Citing John Price, a history professor at the University of Victoria, the report said that as the Cold War began US negotiators adopted an "avoidance strategy" during talks on the sovereignty of the South China Sea islands to avoid recognizing the new Communist regime in Beijing.

However, when it wanted to use Okinawa and other Pacific islands as military strongholds, the United States became strict and had clear-cut opinions in terms of sovereignty issues, according to Price, who said that the impact of injustice created by the US in those years is still being felt today.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclas...=20150526000135

Wary of ‘Russian Invasion’, Estonia Designs Mobile Bomb Shelter



“This shelter was designed to handle the impact of 155 mm artillery shells… We have just tested it against a variety of weapons, from 81 mm shells all the way to 155 mm ones and, as you can see, it handled all of them just fine”, said Peter Kirsti, one of the designers of the mobile shelter.

Dubbed as Sub Safe U1, the shelters, made from polythene, are around six meters long, weigh around two tons, cost 18,000 euros a piece and purportedly take less than two hours to assemble.

Built by Estonian defense firm Terramil, the units can hold up to 12 people.

With the armed conflict in Ukraine raging on despite the proclaimed ceasefire, the demand for mobile shelters is high, even though work on the prototype started well before the outbreak of the conflict in Donbass.

Additionally to the Eastern European countries, the mobile bomb shelters have generated considerable interest in Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150526/1022556902.html

wow..sukhoi are really huge eh?

i always use this when playing in ace combat lol...

just love to use the gatling gun

The truth is A-10 probably won't survive against a modern army's air defense systems. It is actually never been tested against a serious opponent in its entire service, only against basic opponents like Iraq and in COIN campaigns against lightly-armed insurgents.