i think those amphibious ships with well dock will be good enough.. for those smal small transportation

Laser cannons by 2020... just like JSF F35 by 2010... please.

our RMN 3th Generation 6000 tons Frigate (NAAWF) project in 2023, will have High Energy Laser (HEL) defense system on board. 

so basically in Syria's Civil War,

Russia + Iran + Hezbollah + Assad's Syria  VS  USA + FSA + Saudi + Qatar

our RMN Third Generation Frigate (TGF) (6000 tons AAW frigate) project in 2023, will have High Energy Laser (HEL) defense system on board. 
but in year 2023, price may go up to USD 1 bllion each unit.

mana dapat weed ni?

We can buy Galicia class which is within the RMN required tonnage. Or we can get Makassar class which is cheaper.

mana dapat weed ni?

just in concept study, possible type 26 or Fremm upgrade version.

2003 1 Gen -kedah class 1600 tons
2013 2 Gen -Gowind class 3000 tons
2023 3 Gen -New AAW Frigate  6000 tons.

I think we pulled out of Type 26 already. At least so the UK side seems to think. But if we can it would be a really nice platform... singas would really crap pants.

But I'd settle for actually getting Gowind in mass production.

6000tons can very much a destroyer class already   which is beyond the realm of reality/ imagination

it more believable that we go for a improved gowind with AAW capabilities armed with sg formidable class weapon
the type 26 faced various design delays in fact during gowind tender, the type 26 was not more a concept on paper while the gowind already have a basic design

Yup, and Type 26 is *still* on paper only. And our Gowind has also been compared favourably with the notorious LCS. So I'm quite proud. Only problem is building the things.... sigh.

You think this theoretical AAW Gowind can get Aster?

Michael Durstock, an AFRL research team leader for flexible materials and devices, said additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, of flexible electronics could get parts to troops in the field faster.

“We’re transforming the way the military operates in the sense that we’re responding in real time (to) threats and needs that the military has and rapidly providing the users, the warfighters with … new capabilities and new technologies,” he said.

Researchers envision flexible hybrid electronics in wearable devices that track an airman’s or athlete’s fatigue and hydration, or could replace a maze of wires and medical equipment to monitor patients in hospital rooms.

Pilots could be monitored too, Leever said.

“There are not sensors that monitor the state of the pilot, so we don’t know if that pilot is performing optimally,” he said.

The technology could be used to create flexible batteries or lower the weight of devices airmen and soldiers carry onto the battlefield, researchers said.

“One of the biggest needs is about size, power and weight,” Leever said.

“What that’s really going to mean is an airman, a soldier, a Marine is always going to carry something like 100 pounds because they’re always going to take as many capabilities into the fight as they can. But by lightening their radios, lightening their batteries, we can let them take additional resources into the fight to give them the extra advantage over their adversaries.”

Flexible electronics sensors inside jet engines or embedded in bridges, just two examples, could track when maintenance is needed rather than waiting until it’s normally scheduled, researchers said.

AFRL researchers have tested flexible solar cells on a military drone, doubling its endurance using solar power.

They have also tested an antenna that conforms to the outside of an unmanned aerial vehicle, and flexible-material heaters that de-ice the wings of a drone.

“For these unmanned aerial vehicles, icing can be a big problem and typically can’t be used in conditions where you expect icing might occur,” Leever said.

SARGODHA: A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pilotless aircraft crashed early on Friday in the fields of Jahanabad village in Shahpur tehsil. However, no casualties were reported.

Sources said that the drone was on a routine flight when it encountered a technical fault and crashed. The PAF officials and police reached the scene of the crash, 30km from here, and cordoned off the area to initiate a probe.

not really a military topic, but oh well..



Self-styled Sulu Sultan is dead

PETALING JAYA: The self-styled Sulu Sultan Esmail Kiram II died at 6.20pm on Saturday.

Abraham Idjirani, the brother-in-law of Esmail, confirmed the death of the 76-year-old self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu.

It is believed that Esmail died of kidney failure in a hospital in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines.

He succeeded his brother Jamalul Kiram III who died in October 2013 in Manila.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015...n-of-Sulu-dead/
facts; 3rd "kiram" to have died since the 2013 lahad datu standoff

kiram III - died in october 2013
agbimuddin kiram - died in january 2015
kiram II - died in september 2015