TopGear Philippines visited IIMS Military Zone at the Indonesian International Motor Show 2015. Photo by TopGear Philippines.

PLA's nuclear subs still unable to strike US homeland: Kanwa



China's 12 nuclear-powered submarines are still unable to launch a direct attack against the US homeland, reports the Kanwa Defense Review, a Chinese-language military magazine based in Canada.

An estimated three of the PLA Navy's Type 094 Jin-class ballistic missile submarines and two Type 093 Shang-class attack submarines are currently stationed at Sanya, the base of the PLA's South Sea Fleet in the southern island province of Hainan. The base is the most proximate location for deployment to the South China Sea, where Beijing disputes vast swaths of maritime territory with competing neighbors.

None of the three Type 094 submarines have carried ballistic missiles on board since the beginning of this year, the report said.

Unlike the Russian Navy, China is very unlikely to launch an attack against the US from North Pole waters. An attack would be more likely be launched from the Pacific against the US territory of Guam or the states of Hawaii and Alaska. A Chinese missile strike could reach as far as Australia if launched from South China Sea waters. A similar attack targeting the west coast of the US would still, however, be exceedingly difficult, the report said.

To strike Los Angeles, the Jin-class submarine would have to fire a JL-2 missile from the Second Island Chain, extending from Honshu to New Guinea. The notoriously loud Type 094 sub venturing into this area would be easily detected by the US Navy's P-8A patrol aircraft, the report said. However, the submarine still poses a highly dangerous threat to Russia since Moscow is only 7,200 kilometers away from Hainan.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclas...=20150831000034

Struggling to find money for fighters and heli still wanna buy Mistral? Maybe to ferry tanks to Esscom but idk... it is an opportunity but surely it will be expensive :/

i think nuclear powered aircraft carrier would be nice too..

gambar lama, 2009 diamond formation crew

happy Merdeka to Malaya.Thank you to all security personnel past and present for preserving the freedom that have been enjoyed

thank you also to the British and commonwealth forces who helped achieve and subsequently defend Malaya's independence (even though they could have just left like the FRENCH)

kkikiki
sompek lagi hahahaha

Da mula da..aircraft carrier tu..

Kua kia soong datang lagi, remember his 'Questioning Arms Spending in Malaysia' book?

mistral so powerfully already become Aircraft Carrier.
mistral become like HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier, operation cost like Aircraft Carrier"

French Defense Firms To Accompany Jean-Yves Le Drian To Malaysia





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The whole gang is here apparently

That is normal, many suppler involved in fighter system, component or ammunition.
DCI is training school for pilot.
same to Egypt, all gang in Egypt in last discussion on deal.

This post has been edited by waja2000: Sep 1 2015, 01:21 AM

straight away buy charles de gaulle better

if the representative from french bank also come it will complete liao.
10 years installment for rafale package.

Something big is coming rafale or mistral

First live fire test of the Indonesian Army Caesar 155mm SPH.







http://www.arc.web.id/artikel/706-tembakan...ama-sang-caesar

The 'cut all ties' independence method is very risky to do. Sometimes it works OK (Indonesia) , but sometimes it can cause chaos and permanent damage that newly independent country may never quite heal (most African countries). Learning from earlier f*cked-up efforts at giving independence to its colonies in the 1950s, the French after the 1960s decided to make it a prerequisite for any country that it gives independence to for it to host a number of French troops to permanently safeguard its interests.

The Portuguese and Belgians also guilty of abandoning their African colonies unilaterally and causing chaos there. It was clear the colonies weren't prepared for independence and the various parties in each colonies immediately tried to claim all of the country for themselves.Their colonies were embroiled almost immediately in civil wars that took decades to stop.

I for one are thankful we had help from UK & commonwealth in the early days of our independence. Easy to dismiss now by modern eyes, but looking back hard I think we had significant foreign (Indonesia & Philippines) & domestic (PKM) threats to our country back then and for me the help was very much appreciated. Without British & Commonwealth presence Indonesia and Philippines would have been bolder and probably more militarily aggressive in asserting their claims for Malaysian territories.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Sep 1 2015, 10:45 AM

if 1% defense budget, not say procurement, even our armed forces operation budget also more than that 1%.
if true they as Gov, ATM have to downsize, sell off many asset like A400M and Scorpene submarine. LTZ maybe transfer to MMEA, Polis or job less.
dismiss ESSCOM as they say useless.