They memang jumped into F35 as the JSF program since almost before 2000. The idea is, better let US develop rather than face another shitstorm like Eurofighter... only to run into yet another shitstorm. But TBH it saved F35... if only US tanggung probably would've been long cancelled.

And they get free English lessons, citizenship, pensions and benefits waaay more than they could earn otherwise. But only the most elite Gurkhas are chosen.

1 battalion is always stationed in Brunei as its part of the Commonwealth.

The shitstorm is exactly why the participants dropped out, and in the end the biggest customer is UK IIRC. Program started in 1980s and its not fully functional in the UK RAF until now. No AESA radar, no CFTs, no laser guidance pod, no Meteor, and only Paveway IV LGB, no Brimstone or other AGMs. But those will be coming soon... 2020s. Then Tornado can finally retire.

Granted though its a highly manoeuvrable jet. Supposedly a Mig-29 splashed into the Black Sea trying to follow a Typhoon.

Yeah... the same class of boat as KD Perdana

Antiship missiles, antiair missiles... if every one of them had the Pk as advertised... even Exocet had its bad days

Firing Standards is cheaper than firing Harpoons, can be useful to swat the threatened Iranian patrol boat swarm.

Can now add that Turkey (good) bought oil from ISIS and so is considered (bad) too.

fucking Mid East politics...

Tiba2 Rusiya manyak jilat UK and yahudis

"Abandoned warehouse" my ass, sounds like Mossad just scored another covert win... wonder what was inside

Wahlao. Philippines baru start receiving NVGs, 1 or 2 jets, 1 or 2 patrol boat start to boast "world class" already?

Means before this really "out of this world" class...

Whole article by professional telling you why its difficult bro

Keyword is 'integrated air defence'... no longer you fire 1 HARM = 1 lubang in the radar net, where the only backup is a bunch of MANPADs. Now there are backup radars, interlocking fields of fire, etc and counter-missiles like Iron Dome and land Phalanx...

azrielNice pics. I think we should get Caesar rather than those Paladins, I know its not under armour but how capable is the Paladin of crossing our roads, fields and plantations?

Yeah I get that, it was the dimensions I was thinking of, but its the same as Twardy anyhow...

Instead of getting MBTs which are assault units I would've thought a fleet of wheeled and tracked IFVs would be better for our purely defensive purposes. Not that we have a lot of armour in truth...

PT-91 is 45 tons? Thats not awe-inspiring, looking at the 65+ of M1A2...

The Jacel Kiram is a convenient political assassination, not that Nurul Izzah isn't a complete ass for even allowing this kind of thing to happen. Other than that, Defence is a songlap sink except for anti-riot/insurgency and anti-ISIS because they're afraid for their own skins... pendatang kena penggal not their problem

Moving on to something nicer... rather than try to replicate old Cold War style US formations with the artillery and all, why don't we focus on genuine needs like helis, patrol boats and limit our armour to IFVs... not the Twardy isn't nice to have but only the top end tanks have a chance of surviving the ATGMs now available, just focus on ATGMs and don't try to go head to head with our neighbours.

Analogy is the Russians who develop SAMs and supersonic antiship missiles in response to NATO/US focus on air and carrier power.

6 choppas... usually 2-2-2 right? Three flights... 1 operational 1 maintenance 1 reserve/training...

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Brahmos? Moskit? Cold War era AS-5 Kelts*? Tak ingat the rest
*edit: AS-4 Kitchen, AS-16 Kickback

No lar both sides trying not to provocate. Rusiya also didn't deploy medium air-to-air missiles until that stupid SU-24 incident.

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They are standard antiship missile loadouts for their Backfire bombers. Mach 4+ both. Just not advertised.

As for P800, a quick wiki turned up something interesting...
Remember the recent airstrike? "Abandoned warehouse" my ass!

Whether Scorpion or Texan 2, the modifications to make them capable of this kind of ground attack is not cheap and it comes up to a few tens of million anyway. And I shudder to think what the ISIS's AAA cannons and MANPADs would do to them.

Cause Assad don't play ball with USA. He's in the Russian camp - which is why the Russians are supporting them by bombing FSA.

As for attacking ISIS... they've been doing it on a low level since waaaay before the Russians did, in support of the Arab Coalition.

Basically in the Middle East nothing is black and white.

I dunno, there has to be a reason why the superpowers aren't going for it. I believe I read that once you factor in the EO/laser targeting pods the cost goes up significantly... but I may be remembering wrong.

Reapers perform most of the UK airstrikes in Iraq. Brimstone is a real wonder weapon.

"Great Muslim war"

Sorry but when hasn't there been one...?

We were pretty damn close to not getting *anything* so... besides we also will have a pair of Blackhawks, and they're much more useful for our purpose than antitank attack helis

I think what the article means is that Tu-22/22M doesn't have laser targeting pods...? its perfectly capable of launching guided weapons.

Well the British had to develop the Scorpion specifically for Malaysian terrain, and they actually fought using armoured cars here. They must know something we don't.

Armour is too vulnerable these days to precision guided weapons. I still think light antitank vehicles are better suited, even gun armed tanks. The Europeans believe in it, US and Russia don't. Incidentally the only US effort in this area was picked up by Thailand IIRC - the Textron Stingray.

I would've said buy Russian too, its usually cheaper, but I think they're still under embargo