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 Nov 3 2015, 11:07 PM
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QUOTE(alaskanbunny @ Oct 30 2015, 03:24 PM) dunno... tonight going temasek club to have ktv with head of csscom bg lam... see what he says cause from army only those in logistics n supply are involved with that operation.. Vikings unite!!  not fair comparison... those northern countries should form a nordic or scandinavian alliance... but some in nato... haih   |
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Nov 3 2015, 11:13 PM
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F-35A Stealth Jet Finally Shows Off Gun in Flight QUOTE On Oct. 30, U.S. Air Force test pilot Maj. Charles Trickey fired an F-35A’s internal GAU-22 25-millimeter cannon during a test flight for the first time ever. In a video released by Lockheed Martin seen below, Trickey fires a two-second burst from the gun on a prototype known as AF-2. “Just going out there today to make sure the functionality, loads, vibro-acoustics – all that stuff worked,” Trickey says on the ground at the end of the clip. “It went about as smooth as you could’ve expected on the first flight.” AF-2 is the same aircraft that lost a mock air-to-air battle against an older F-16D fighter jet in January. An anonymous individual leaked the report from that experiment to War Is Boring six months later. Lockheed Martin no doubt released the video clip to show the F-35 program is moving in the right direction. Since the flying branch expects the F-35A to replace both the snub-nosed A-10 Warthog and the faster-flying F-16 Viper, the gun has been a central issue. QUOTE But Lockheed Martin, despite proving that the gun works, has given no indication that the F-35 can use its cannon in combat anytime soon. By the Pentagon’s own estimation, the software needed to help the pilot put his rounds on the right target won’t be ready for at least another two years. http://warisboring.com/articles/f-35a-stea...-gun-in-flight/If a pilot can’t reliably aim the weapon, then the aircraft cannot be a reliable close-in attacker. On top of that, the test video highlights another major problem — ammunition capacity. The GAU-22 fires 4,000 rounds per minute or nearly 70 rounds per second. Unfortunately, the F-35A’s ammunition’s magazine holds a meager 180 rounds. With a full load of shells, Trickey’s two-second burst would have exhausted nearly two-thirds of the total supply. |
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Nov 3 2015, 11:20 PM
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QUOTE(azriel @ Oct 31 2015, 02:02 PM) it's about time they buy these water bombers |
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Nov 4 2015, 12:34 AM
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International Military Review – Syria-Iraq Battlespace, Nov. 01. 2015 QUOTE The Russian Air Force’s support allowed the Syrian forces to liberate more than 50 settlements. Following the reports, SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence can conclude that only Russian airstrikes killed 400-600 militants since the start of the military operation. Pro-government forces are advancing in the Aleppo, Latakia, Idlib, Hama and Damascus provinces. Despite the efforts on the ground and in the air, terrorists are holding their positions in a number of areas which have been turned in heavily protected points since the start of the Syrian war. Furthermore, and al-Nusra and ISIS have already united their military efforts in the Hama province. Separately, some al-Nusra units joined to the Ahrar ash-Sham group which Western media and officials call “moderate rebels”. Some other terrorist groups are also seeking to rebrand themselves in order to argue that the Russian anti-ISIS coalition fights against “moderate opposition” instead of terrorists. On October 26, the Jund al-Aqsa militant group leaved the Army of Conquest (Jaish al-Fatah) military operations coalition. The official reason was that another member of the Army of Conquest, Ajnad al-Sham suggested to fight ISIS. According to reports, ISIS executed about 200 militants tried to join al-Nusra. Militants wanted to change the terrrorist group because ISIS is a primary target of the Russian Air Force in Syria. There is unconfirmed information that Turkey and Saudi Arabia have a plan to supply SAM-8 and SAM-9 antiaircraft systems to the Syrian terrorist through Ukraine. http://southfront.org/international-milita...ce-nov-03-2015/ |
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Nov 4 2015, 12:37 AM
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Israel Is Already Selling Kamikaze Micro-Drones  QUOTE The tiny drone launches from its pneumatic carrying tube, extends its wings, and zooms at speed up to 115 mph, driven by an electric propeller. But the 7-lb. Hero 30 can also cruise at slow speeds, loitering over an area. A stabilized camera and a thermal imager in the nose beams back video to the operator. Hero can fly for 30 minutes, long enough for the operator to locate, identify, and confirm a target several miles away. He then sends the Hero on a kamizake run with a one-pound explosive warhead. Made by uVision, the Hero-30 drone is a new Israeli weapon may prove to be a disruptive force in military technology, heralding a new type of warfare in which shooting at a target you can see is as rare as using a bayonet. It's the killer UAV you'll never see coming. http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/dro...-israeli-drone/ |
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Nov 4 2015, 12:45 AM
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Russia Tests Cutting Edge Helicopter Electronic Defense System  QUOTE The ‘President-S’ is designed for the individual protection of the aircraft from air defense missiles and artillery systems. As soon as threats are detected, either radar or laser-beam radiation, the complex activates a multispectral laser radiation. If the missile is equipped with a radar seeker or if the threat comes from an anti-aircraft artillery system equipped with radar, ‘President-S’ activates radio interference, which disrupts the tracking radar or missile by intercepting its trajectory and leading it away from the aircraft or helicopter. According to the test results we can say that Russia has a reliable technology to protect its aircraft and helicopters against any missile attack, said Yuri Maevskiy, director of the 'Radio Electronic Technology' holding. http://sputniknews.com/military/20151103/1...nse-system.html |
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Nov 4 2015, 03:02 AM
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British Army Watchkeeper UAV crash lands at Boscombe Down airbase
 QUOTE AN unmanned Army spyplane has crashed landed at MOD Boscombe Down. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Watchkeeper drone — one of eight currently being tested from the base — suffered extensive damage last night. The £1.2billion fleet of drones is under testing and it is expected to come into operation in 2017. Nobody was injured in the incident and an investigation has been launched. An Army spokesman said: "I can confirm that on November 2 an Army Watchkeeper unmanned aerial system was involved in an incident on landing at Boscombe down airfield. "A comprehensive investigation will be completed by the Defence safety Authority [the Military Aviation Authority], therefore, it would be inappropriate to offer any additional comment at this point." The drone was on a routine training exercise. In operation the planes, which are radio controlled from the ground, can stay in the air continuously for 16 hours offering surveillance and reconnaissance for troops. [sos] |
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Nov 4 2015, 01:18 PM
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QUOTE(TechSuper @ Nov 3 2015, 11:07 PM) Vikings unite!! Hahaha Viking age dead already la. Nowadays all these Scandinavian countries all have become LBGT-loving ultra-liberal welfare states.  This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Nov 4 2015, 01:21 PM |
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Nov 4 2015, 01:56 PM
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QUOTE(MilitaryMadness @ Nov 4 2015, 01:18 PM) Hahaha Viking age dead already la. tell that to the mountainNowadays all these Scandinavian countries all have become LBGT-loving ultra-liberal welfare states. |
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Nov 4 2015, 02:04 PM
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QUOTE(BorneoAlliance @ Nov 4 2015, 12:37 AM) Israel Is Already Selling Kamikaze Micro-Drones I've been thinking about this kind of weapon for quite some times. I was thinking about a stealth cruise missile that can loiter for hours on a location until a suitable target enter it's targeting perimeter.http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/dro...-israeli-drone/ |
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Nov 4 2015, 02:37 PM
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QUOTE(MrUbikeledek @ Nov 4 2015, 02:04 PM) I've been thinking about this kind of weapon for quite some times. I was thinking about a stealth cruise missile that can loiter for hours on a location until a suitable target enter it's targeting perimeter. What's the advantage this would have on regular hellfire-armed stealth UAVs? Also what's the definition of 'suitable target'? Cruise missile are one-way weapons and its targets are usually large stationary structures or follow relatively predictable routes (like ships) which are then pre-identified and the missile is expressly programmed to attack a target that fits that particular target profile (or any secondary targets, just in case). Cruise missiles loitering to attack a target of opportunity that just happens to pass by , say a terrorist Toyota truck full of armed dudes, that is just ridiculous. The tech that enables an autonomous weapon system to identify its own targets won't be available for a while. If this weapon is deployed and circling the skies,what happens if no targets turns up? You can't well recover a cruise missile the way you recover a UAV. You still could recall a patrolling UAV to a friendly airstrip when it runs out of fuel. If the fuels starts to run low on this thing with no target appearing,you'll be forced to voluntarily crash or self-destruct the darn thing. Imagine a $ 1.5milllion USD weapon (the cost of a Tomahawk missile) which can't find any targets and you're forced to self destruct it? |
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Nov 4 2015, 03:15 PM
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QUOTE(MilitaryMadness @ Nov 4 2015, 02:37 PM) What's the advantage this would have on regular hellfire-armed stealth UAVs? Armed UAV require some form of logistics chain and many require an airstrip or an aviation ship to launch and recover the UAV. The UAV will require fuel and spare parts which must be be conveyed through the chain. This logistic chain and static launch bases is vulnerable to enemy interdiction effort. . This is not a problem for COIN, but it'll be a vulnerabilities in a conventional war. Also what's the definition of 'suitable target'? Cruise missile are one-way weapons and its targets are usually large stationary structures or follow relatively predictable routes (like ships) which are then pre-identified and the missile is expressly programmed to attack a target that fits that particular target profile (or any secondary targets, just in case). Cruise missiles loitering to attack a target of opportunity that just happens to pass by , say a terrorist Toyota truck full of armed dudes, that is just ridiculous. The tech that enables an autonomous weapon system to identify its own targets won't be available for a while. If this weapon is deployed and circling the skies,what happens if no targets turns up? You can't well recover a cruise missile the way you recover a UAV. You still could recall a patrolling UAV to a friendly airstrip when it runs out of fuel. If the fuels starts to run low on this thing with no target appearing,you'll be forced to voluntarily crash or self-destruct the darn thing. Imagine a $ 1.5milllion USD weapon (the cost of a Tomahawk missile) which can't find any targets and you're forced to self destruct it? Cruise missile on the other hand are almost maintenance free and can be launch from a varieties of mobile platform, like a Submarine for example. Since it's one use weapon, it'll be cheaper than UAV. The loitering capability is useful for interdiction mission. Of course, the decision to attack will be in the hand's of a human operator. When the missile detected potential target, it'll send a signal burst via satellite which contain the visual and sensor information on the target to the command center. Then the human operator will send back a signal to attack the target or not. Regarding wasting the expensive missile, the same thing can be said about the existing cruise missile. The key here is intelligence. If your intelligence is shaky, then there's a large possibility that the cruise missile will attack a barn instead of a enemy HQ due to faulty intel. A capability to loiter will give a missile a capability to attack secondary target nearby in case the primary target doesn't appear in a allotted time frame. |
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Nov 4 2015, 05:28 PM
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China May Be Bootlegging Our Military Tech to Build a Superpower  QUOTE To China, this isn’t cheating, just sensible planning. It’s much cheaper to let others figure out innovation then replicate the work as long as you can get your hands on the technical specs. There’s also cultural attitudes rooted in Confucianism, where followers are encouraged to copy — then improve — on masterworks. https://www.inverse.com/article/7730-china-...ld-a-superpower |
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Nov 4 2015, 05:35 PM
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Frigate is a More Survivable and Lethal Variant of the Littoral Combat Ship  QUOTE The new ship, called a Frigate, will be integrated with anti-submarine surface warfare technologies including sonar, an over-the-horizon missile and surface-to-surface weapons such as a 30mm gun and closer-in missiles such as the Hellfire, “You will be able to have both the long range over-the-horizon missile and the Hellfire on board at the same time,” Brintzinghoffer said. The Frigate is slated for delivery to the Navy by 2023; the platform is an outgrowth of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship effort which originally planned to build 52 shallow-water multi-mission ships equipped with interchangeable groups of technologies called “mission packages” for mine countermeasures, anti-submarine technologies and surface warfare systems. However, lawmakers, analysts and some members of the Navy argued that the LCS was not “survivable” enough, meaning despite its speed of 40-knots and numerous advantages, the ship would be far too vulnerable to enemy attack. The concern, ultimately echoed by then Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, was that the ship did not have enough weapons, armor fortifications and what’s called “blue water” combat capability to challenge near-peer adversaries. “LCS as designed is a focused mission ship. It can do one specific mission at a time and the combat capability to do that mission is provided by the mission packages,” he added. “We are going to take a modified LCS and take that as the baseline and then add changes or modifications to improve its lethality and survivability.” http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/stor...gh-tech-weapons |
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Nov 4 2015, 05:42 PM
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Boeing's Stealthy F-15 "Silent Eagle" May Fly After All  QUOTE The result: the Silent Eagle. Based on the F-15E Strike Eagle, Silent Eagle would be an affordable alternative to the F-35. It would be an attractive option to countries such as Japan, Israel and South Korea, countries that already had F-15s and wanted a long-range, multi-role, stealthy fighter. The one probably? Nobody bought it, and the Silent Eagle program was put in limbo in 2014. QUOTE Silent Eagle is a Strike Eagle given the stealth treatment. The aircraft has a Radar Cross Section Reduction Package, which includes radar-absorbent materials, form-fitting fuel tanks, and vertical stabilizers at a radar-reducing 15 degree cant. Silent Eagle even has a pair of internal weapons bays built into the fuselage to hide Sidewinder and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, JDAM satellite guided bombs, and Small Diameter Bombs. The lack of missiles and drop tanks hanging off the wings and fuselage improves the aircraft's radar-cross section. Silent Eagle also features plenty of non-stealth upgrades including a powerful Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, an infrared search and track capability for air-to-ground and air-to-air combat, and an updated electronic warfare suite. Boeing touts Silent Eagle's greater situational awareness, faster jamming, and accurate threat location. http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/w...t-eagle-israel/ |
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Nov 4 2015, 05:45 PM
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The New Home of the Most Exotic Bomber Ever Built Is Aerospace Heaven  QUOTE The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the world’s largest military aviation museum—and it’s also home to the world’s only remaining North American XB-70 Valkyrie, which was moved to a new hangar a few days ago. http://gizmodo.com/the-new-home-of-the-mos...s-ae-1740238853 |
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Nov 4 2015, 05:49 PM
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Army Commandos Will be First to Get Bad-Weather Vision Sensors for Choppers  QUOTE The U.S. Army commando unit that’s flown missions from “Black Hawk Down” to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden will be the first to get new sensor technology to help guide helicopters through sometimes deadly bad weather. By mid-2019, the system to navigate through thick clouds of dust or snow will be installed on specialized MH-47G Chinook copters and MH-60M Black Hawks flown by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, according to a command spokesman. The unit is the prime transporter of U.S. special operations forces. Sierra Nevada Corp. beat Boeing Co. and Rockwell Collins Inc. last month for the third phase of a $22.6 million Special Operations Command project to produce and field the system that can see through “degraded visual environment” conditions. These have caused almost $1 billion of $1.4 billion in damage and a majority of the casualties from 2002 to this year in major helicopter accidents that killed 152 personnel, according to Army safety data. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/201...for-u-s-copters |
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Nov 4 2015, 05:55 PM
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Closest Encounter Since 2006: Chinese Submarine Tailed US Aircraft Carrier  QUOTE Over at The Washington Free Beacon Bill Gertz has the scoop that a Chinese submarine shadowed a U.S. nuclear super-carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, in what Pentagon officials called the closest encounter between a People’s Liberation Army Navy boat and an American aircraft carrier since 2006. According to Gertz, the incident occurred on October 24 as the USS Ronald Reagan was on its way from Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture, sailing around the southern end of Japan to the Sea of Japan. The USS Ronald Reagan is currently the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier in the Asia-Pacific. Other vessels present during the incident were the guided missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville and the guided-missile destroyers USS Mustin, USS Fitzgerald, and USS Curtis Wilbur. QUOTE Both the Song- and Yuan-class attack submarines are equipped with German-made state-of-the-art diesel engines: the 396 SE84 series is one of the world’s leading submarine diesel engines. As I noted previously: Each Song- and Yuan-class vessel is equipped with three such engines, which have been built under license by Chinese defense contractors since 1986. The Yuan-class is also said to have incorporated quieting technology from Russian-designed subs and to be equipped with Stirling air-independent propulsion technology. Furthermore, Chinese submarine technology is approximately still a generation behind the West: For example, the much talked about new Type 095 nuclear-attack submarine SSN will, in all likelihood, be more on par with 1980s NATO nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines (i.e. roughly three decades behind current Western sub technology), rather than with the new U.S. Virginia-class vessels. http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/closest-enc...rcraft-carrier/ |
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Nov 4 2015, 06:02 PM
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Captured ISIS Leaders in Iraq Confess to Receiving Military and Intelligence Support from the United States  QUOTE Spokesman of Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) popular forces Jafar al-Hosseini disclosing that captured ISIL leaders have acknowledged receiving logistical backup and intelligence support from the US. “As the ISIL commanders captured in Iraqi popular forces’ recent military operations have confessed, the US supports for the terrorist groups are not limited to the dispatch of logistical support,” Al-Hosseini told FNA on Sunday. He reiterated that the US has provided the ISIL with intelligence about the Iraqi forces’ positions and targets. “ISIL commanders trusted the US officials who had assured them that the Iraqi forces would not attack Fallujah because the US had urged the Iraqi government to prevent the popular forces from entering Fallujah and raid Beiji instead; hence the terrorists left Fallujah for Beiji to stay on the alert in there,” Al-Hosseini added. Al-Hosseini had also stated on Wednesday that his forces plan to win back the city of Ramadi only after expelling the American forces from Anbar province. “Our forces have two operations underway; first seizing Ramadi from ISIL and second keeping away the American forces from Anbar province,” al-Hosseini told FNA. He underlined that preventing the US forces from getting close to Anbar province will expedite operations for winning back the province, specially after the military operations in Salahuddin province that led to the liberation of the city of Beiji. Iraqi officials have on different occasions blasted the US and its allies for supplying the ISIL in Syria with arms and ammunition under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri terrorist group. http://www.globalresearch.ca/captured-isis...-states/5486110 |
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Nov 4 2015, 06:10 PM
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Malaysia scores D on defence anti-corruption  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4): Malaysia scored an overall "D" in Transparency International (TI)'s latest survey of corruption in national defence industries, indicating a high risk of corruption within government defence. Nevertheless, the score was slightly better than TI's 2013 survey where Malaysia scored a D-. According to the watchdog's Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index, its second survey since 2013, Malaysia is grouped together with India, the Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh in the high risk band. Transparency International Malaysia (TI-Malaysia) said Malaysia's performance was pulled back by its operations risk, which attained an "E". Its political risk, financial risk and procurement risks were given a "D", while the country's personnel risk was rated a "C". In a statement today, TI-Malaysia president Datuk Akhbar Satar said it views the newly-released results with concern, adding that what the country needs now is action to implement concrete steps guided by its recommendations to "protect its defence spending from those who would abuse it for their own personal gain". "With formal regulations governing the actions of military personnel and independent investigative organisations like the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, Malaysia is in a good place to build its anti-corruption framework. "However, significant vulnerabilities to corruption persist as a result of a weak legislative scrutiny, opaque budgets, weak whistle-blower protections, and insufficient anti-corruption training in institutions," he said. The Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index 2015 measures the levels of corruption risk in national defence establishments, and scores in bands from A (the best) to F (the worst). These bands are based on scores on an assessment consisting of 77 questions — for each question, the government was scored from 0 to 4. The percentage of marks overall determined which band the government was placed in and were scored in five risk areas namely political risk, financial risk, personnel risk, operations risk, and procurement risk. According to the 2015 survey results New Zealand was the only country placed in the "A" risk band, while Singapore, Australia, Taiwan and Japan are grouped in the "B" risk band. Meanwhile, to address issues relating to political corruption risk, TI-Malaysia is recommending that the government establish a parliamentary committee task specifically with duties to oversight all aspects on the state defence and security sector. "This committee should have the power to access a fully detailed defence budget and internal audit reports; be able to call expert witnesses and scrutinise defence agencies and institutions; meet regularly and publish reports on its activity," it said. It also called on the government to publish an annual defence budget that includes detailed information on expenditure such as research and design, training and other events, and appropriately lengthens the time that budget items can be discussed by the Parliament. TI-Malaysia also said the defence minister has to address the weaknesses of the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) roles and functions to strengthen maritime security in the eastern part of Sabah covering four perspectives namely software, hardware, human resources, and intelligence. It also urged that the ministry of defence's standard operating procedure for equipment procurement be based on open tenders. "It is only appropriate to procure and place several radars in various islands in Esscom areas instead of installing one big radar at one area, which is very costly and ineffective to monitor the vast areas to be combed," the watchdog added. Country Risk banding New Zealand A Australia B Taiwan B Japan B Singapore B South Korea C India D Malaysia D Philippines D Indonesia D Bangladesh D China E Thailand E Pakistan E Sri Lanka E Cambodia F Myanmar F Source: TI http://www.theedgemarkets.com/my/article/m...anti-corruption This post has been edited by BorneoAlliance: Nov 4 2015, 06:11 PM |
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