thanks for the reply..is the additional 12 more with Esscom already?

Inflatable communications allow for fast, light travel



Fayetteville's newest defense contractor may be uniquely suited for the types of units Fort Bragg is best known for.

GATR Technologies makes inflatable communications equipment that's specially designed for military units that need to travel light and fast.

It's already being used by special operations forces and the 82nd Airborne Division.

That was part of the draw for the Huntsville, Alabama-based company - founded in 2004 - when it opened an office on Cumberland Street. The office is the company's first outside of its headquarters.

"We needed a presence here," said Cyrus Wilson, a project manager for GATR. "Our footprint is our customer's footprint."

The Fayetteville facility, co-located with other defense contractors, is 3,200 square feet of space that hosts maintenance and training areas.

And Wilson said the space has already been put to good use.

GATR employees have had their hands full on Fort Bragg, where many units have found use for the company's satellite antennas.

The antennas come in several sizes, but all can be packed significantly smaller and lighter than more traditional antennas of the same size.

"It's different from any type of satellite antenna in the world," Wilson said, pointing out black cases holding the inflatable antennas.

The smallest system can fit in a single backpack, and the Army has already tested having soldiers jump with it on airborne operations, Wilson said. Even the largest system can be fit in a single SUV or helicopter and weighs up to 80 percent less than traditional systems.

Wilson said the expeditionary nature of the GATR systems doesn't mean they are any less powerful. "You don't lose anything in terms of performance," he said.

The systems have already been used around the world, including in Afghanistan, Iraq and even in rescue efforts in Nepal.

And despite being inflatable, it's sturdier than one would think, too.

Wilson said tests have proven the system can withstand close to two dozen gunshots, with a monitor adjusting air pressure to compensate for punctures.

http://www.fayobserver.com/military/inflat...0.html?mode=jqm

seems not yet,
but few of existing CB90 already assign at Kk and Tawau/sandakan

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jun 14 2015, 11:24 PM

one more Pirates hijack ...... seriusly if no mmea/navy ship frequenly park there, this will keep happend, no one inform MMEA ? mmea only get report at 6.30am.



Pirates hijack M’sian oil tanker

PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian-flagged oil tanker was hijacked off the east coast.

An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) report said armed men boarded the ship at a spot 14km southwest of Pulau Aur near Mersing on Thurs­day.

“They took all crew members as hostages, altered the ship’s course and transferred the oil,” the Commercial Crime Services report said.

Before leaving, the pirates stole items belonging to the ship and its crew, and damaged its radios. The ship later sailed to a safe port.

A Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) official confirmed the hijacking and identified the ship as the Orkim Victory.

“The ship safely arrived in Kuantan at 7pm Thursday,” MMEA C3i (Command, Con­trol, Communication and Information) director Capt Hamid Mohd Amin told The Star.

Hamid said the ship’s 18 crew members were safe and that the pirates fled to Pulau Matek in the Anambas Islands region in Indo­nesia and that the Indonesian Coast Guard were told of the hijacking. He added that MMEA was investigating the case.

Maritime news portal IHS Maritime 360 said the ship was sailing from Sungai Udang in Malacca to Kuantan before the hijacking.

According to an April 21 ICC report, more than half of piracy and armed robbery incidents between January and March took place in Asean waters.

An ICC piracy and armed robbery map showed that three other incidents, including two hijackings, took place in waters off Mersing’s coast this year.

MMEA’s southern region public relation officer Lt Mohd Sufian Anuar said the agency had been deploying more of it assets to beef up patrols.

He said hijacking cases in the state increased by 25% to 30% over the past three years.

“We had about six hijack cases in 2013, 10 were recorded in 2014 and two cases this year, most of which involved oil tankers,” he said.

Lt Mohd Sufian said that the agency had been increasing patrols especially around the borders of Thailand and Indonesia.

“We are using more assets to increase patrols especially at hotspots for hijackings, including Pengerang in Kota Tinggi and Pulau Aur in Mersing.

“We also launched an operation early this year, which led to the arrest of a group of pirates who had tried to hijack a vessel carrying 700 tonnes of marine fuel oil in January.”
sos lanun



Government Will Go All Out To Locate Missing Oil Tanker - Najib

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the government will go all out to locate the oil tanker which went missing with 22 crew 30 nautical miles east of Tanjung Sedili, Kota Tinggi, Johor on Thursday.

Najib said he was distressed by the news and prayed for the safety of all crew on board.

"I am distressed by the news of a missing Malaysian-owned tanker. I pray for the safety of the 22-strong crew, 16 of whom are Malaysians.

"My thoughts are with their families. The government will deploy our resources to locate it," he said in his latest post on his Twitter and Facebook sites Sunday.

The Malaysian-registered vessel MT Orkim Harmony with 6,000 metric tonnes of RON95 petrol was sailing from Malacca to Kuantan when it went missing last Thursday.

Besides the 16 Malaysians, five Indonesians and a Myanmar national were also on board the tanker.

Search operations are ongoing with the Royal Malaysian Navy deploying three vessels with 150 personnel while the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency deployed a helicopter, three ships and a boat.

-- BERNAMA

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jun 15 2015, 12:34 AM

US sends top warship to Asia Pacific





http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/5...to-asia-pacific

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/busine...er-11/71228058/

US Navy EA-18G 'Growler' shows off the silhouette of an F-22 on its 'kill score'



Even the Raptor is not invincible.

i happy if rmaf get 8 unit F18 B3 + 2 unit EA-18G 'Growler' put at sabah labuan AB

Although this F-22 'kill' is on a simulated combat, the fact that the Raptor can be acquired and killed by a 'lesser' aircraft speaks volumes.

Man, I wished RMAF got more of the F/A-18 back then.

agree， but we need electronic warfare plane too，mini version like EG-18 much suitable for as too， since hard to get big EW plane。
new generation combat required AEW or electronic warfare plane to assist tactical to provide info and data. just like F35 require AEW&C to provide info.

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jun 15 2015, 01:11 PM

If not becuase of 97 economic crisis, we would have more F/A18 by now

i thought the main drive away from hornet was source code?

This post has been edited by Gregyong: Jun 15 2015, 01:15 PM

not the source code... useless bcos we no have own weapom need integrated to F18.
mainly Tun D PM that time 2000-2003 no good relation with US, also what RMAF term on new F18 not get from/approval from US.

Not source code but rather political restrictions imposed by us.

You cant freely bom where you want especially foreign land. If not agree to US T&C, they will stop give product support like what happened to iran.

seloww

there were rumours TUDM getting more units of f/a-18..don't know how credible were the rumors though..

Which rumours, never heard pun

don't remember exact timing..few months back someone stated we will be getting more hornet..maybe in small number to please US..if i am not wrong..maybe somebody else can give input on these..

Well that's a strange stipulation to attach to a weapon sale.

As for Iran, I'd imagine overthrowing the most favored US-sponsored ruler in the middle east at the time (The Shah), launching an Islamic revolution and holding US embassy staff and civilians for years is a much more potent excuse for US to stop military aid to Iran rather than Iran breaking some BS military product's T&C.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/...ltiyear-413489/