it not the matter as long it can be fixed, it fine

it buying something that can be used properly the first time. Airbus military branch long history of nvr getting things to work properly the first time
Though, it cant be blamed for a brand new products and being one of the first customers

would still prefer the aw101 if not for its price and a brand new mro facility

agree, anyway Eurocopter or Airbus Helicopter still keep getting sell and it control 40% Helicopter market.
idle AW or Airbus Helis also got MRO facility here, plus Airbus Helis have authorize service center at sabah.
yes, AW101 is best suitable for Army, purchase price is not much different, mostly issue on how your view operation and maintenance cost.
mainly payload only 4+ tons, and weight is 14t, other like NH90 also can do 4t+ payload with own 10t+ which means AW101 is 30%+ cost operation and fuel. plus 3 engine means more service and parts cost.
And for size/weight have pro and cons, good is more people/goods can carry, bad is it cant carry by A400M also land at our Navy ship although not necessary but who know in emergency need it. also need more bigger place to land.
If no issue on budget for cost, for weight/size ,AW101 is best for Army.
NH90 seems look more overall suitable if all aspect consider.
idle AW101 or Nh90 have pro and cons, up to decision person view.

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jun 6 2015, 05:10 PM

Taiwan Coast Guard Launches New Ships As South China Sea Tensions Rise



Taiwan's coast guard on Saturday commissioned its biggest ships for duty in the form of two 3,000-ton patrol vessels, as the island boosts defences amid concerns about China's growing footprint in the disputed South China Sea.

The new vessels will be able to dock at a new port being constructed on Taiping Island, the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, before the end of this year.

Taiwan's coast guard has had direct oversight of the 46-ha (114-acre) island, also known as Itu Aba, since 2000.

"Taiping Island's defence capabilities will not be weak," said Wang Chung-yi, minister of the Coast Guard Administration, referring to recent upgrading done on the 1,200-metre (yards) long airstrip on Taiping and the building of a new port, which he said could be completed as early as October this year.

"As far as Taiping Island is concerned, we still maintain not so much a military as a civil role," Wang told Reuters in an interview in Taipei. Taiwan will not create conflict, but if it is provoked "we will not concede," he said.

Unlike the Philippines and Vietnam, Taiwan has largely avoided becoming ensnared in public disputes with China over the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.

Beijing claims most of the South China Sea, while the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also have overlapping claims.

Rival claims by Taiwan and China go back to before defeated Nationalists fled to Taiwan after losing a civil war with the Communists in 1949.

Beijing sees self-ruled Taiwan as a renegade province to be retaken one day and bans actions that would confer sovereignty, such as negotiating territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou boarded one of the new ships on Saturday, observing rescue drills in waters off the southern Taiwan port city of Kaohsiung.

One of the vessels will be sent to the South China Sea, while the other will be assigned to waters north of Taiwan where it has overlapping claims with Japan.

Japan's Yomiuri newspaper reported on Saturday that Group of Seven leaders meeting in Germany on Sunday would express their concern over any unilateral action to change the status quo in the East and South China Seas.

China has been criticized for extensive reclamation work and moves to turn submerged rocks into man-made structures. The United States last week said Beijing had placed mobile artillery systems in contested territory.

http://malaysiandigest.com/frontpage/29-4-...sions-rise.html

11 dead, most climbers safe after quake hits Malaysia peak









http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/05/asia/mal...kinabalu-quake/

But wat done is done..the best is to see improvement on ec725 in the future ,

Now a400 problem and by far the most serious i would say

our EC725 still got issue? i tot only at early state, EC725 quite long service in other nations.
A400M need keep improve and mature, at lease for 3-4 year more.
A400M should have problem there and here, just hope not much impact on daily operation to much.
A400M crash seem like 3 engine stop funtion due to bug in new version software.

are you suprised?

I dont think so now. Last was manufacturer defects which caused the delays. By now should have everything up n running but for me aw101 would be better

The ram would make loading and offloading so much easier

yes，ram can load NATO std pallets, so can load/off load faster
RAM also can use for paratroop mission. air drop etc

but worry not.. look like PUTM also looking for ram door heli for their heli needs

but mindef already give RMAF Nuri to them, so i for see with 5 year army will not getting any new transport heli any more, just attack helicopter is possible.
feel sad here....

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jun 7 2015, 03:30 PM

Russia, China Not to Accept America’s Vassalage Status Despite US Pressure



The bipolar world ended with the end of the Cold War, the US attempt of a unipolar world has ended up in fiasco, but what is now being suggested as true pluralism and consensus in international relations, is seen by the US as "uncertainty" and "danger", which must be ended by force, the newspaper correspondent Rafael Poch wrote in his blog.

Washington is now committed to blocking the rise of two large nuclear-armed countries, the journalist says, echoing US economist and a columnist Paul Craig Roberts who served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration.

To restrain Russia, the US has created the crisis in Ukraine.

China is now confronted with the Pivot to Asia and the construction of new US naval and air bases to ensure Washington’s control of the South China Sea, now defined as an area of American national interests.

An aide places the Presidential seal on the podium prior to US President Barack Obama speaking during a campaign event at Kissimmee Civic Center in Kissimmee, Florida

Just last week US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced the US New Maritime Security Initiative at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier security summit held annually in Singapore.

It comes as ‘the next phase’ of the US rebalances to the Asia-Pacific.

As it is done with Russia, the bloggers explains, the US regularly resorts to the provocative practice of sending aircraft and warships on patrol just within the limits of the areas of its adversary, which generates constant tensions in the regions.

Washington however needs to understand that neither Russia nor China will yield to the US pressure and won’t accept the vassalage status prepared for them by the US, as did Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan.

http://sputniknews.com/world/20150606/1023034681.html

This speedy stealth gunboat is right out of Bond, and right out of Youghal





http://www.independent.ie/business/technol...l-31283402.html

bcos transport helo gotta be the lowest priority for the army now.

they have option to buy mi-171 on the cheap a decade ago but they decided against them

This post has been edited by ayanami_tard: Jun 7 2015, 09:52 PM

what about the ASW helo for TLDM?

besides arent them blackhawk sedekah going to go to the army aviation corps?

super lynx tu apa?

If anything, we should them wildcats bcos we already familliar with its predecessor

This post has been edited by ayanami_tard: Jun 7 2015, 11:01 PM