bkn paling canggih dong 

Lel. The Buk is pointing at Tu 160.

2015 SPM Sejarah paper



Mana Su 30mkm!!!

wonder what are the students' answers... 

probably hippies' answers 

for most people, it's down to manufacturing cost and creating jobs for the locals
for the chinese, it's more about cutting down on R&D

A Russian fighter jet was forced to enter Turkish airspace in early October while performing an evasive maneuver against a surface-to-air missile system, the commander of Russia’s Air Force said.

“Our fighter jet was on a combat mission in Northern Syria in very dense cloud conditions. When the aircraft was passing along the Turkish border, the onboard equipment set off an alarm indicating the plane was being targeted by some kind of air defense system,” Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bondarev told Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.

“The pilot had to take a split-second decision to perform an anti-missile maneuver. Well, [the plane] went a little bit into Turkish airspace. We acknowledged it frankly,” Bondarev added.

The head of Russia's air force warned fighter jets could be hijacked in neighbouring countries and used to attack Russian forces.

Colonel General Viktor Bondarev revealed: "We have calculated all possible threats.

"We have sent not only fighter jets, bombers and helicopters, but also missile systems. We must be ready."

was it the plane that was being shot down?

noticed how no one but tabloids published an article about the plane and in all those articles, they show a picture of a MiG 29 instead of a Sukhoi aircraft?
and in every one of those articles, it's all unconfirmed reports and according to anonymous sources/eye-witness....
Till now the Turks,Russians,Americans have not released a report regarding this shot down plane.

First ever female military attaché in Israel



Dozens of foreign military attaches are stationed in Israel, but there has never been a female military attaché stationed here, until now.

Yvonn Andreassen, the newest Norwegian defense attaché stationed in Israel. Andreassen is also the non-stationed Norwegian attaché to Jordan and Egypt.

Andreassen is a combat officer, and previously served seven months in Afghanistan, and six months with the UN observer force in the Golan Heights. Most of her service was spent in the communications division of the Norwegian air force, and with the Navy's Anti Air and Anti Surface Warfare division. In addition to her impressive resume, she is also a mother to a young child, who joined her in Israel.

In the years 2009-2012 she completed her masters degree in comparative politics, and even submitted a thesis on the Israeli political system. Andreassen, who speaks a bit of Hebrew, accompanied Norway's new ambassador, Jon Hanssen-Bauer, upon submitting his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4720844,00.html

Rebels shot down a Syrian government warplane with anti-aircraft fire on Wednesday in the western province of Hama, forcing its pilot to eject, a monitoring group and an insurgent media spokesman said.

The pilot died after his parachute failed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Rebels have brought down government aircraft before in Syria's civil war but only rarely as they lack significant anti-aircraft capability. They have stepped up calls to be supplied with anti-aircraft missiles since Russia's air force intervened on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the conflict.

The Syrian air force jet was downed in northwest Hama, near the town of Kafr Nabuda, where fighting has been raging between insurgents and government forces backed by air cover.

Rebels had late on Tuesday taken over Tel Othman, a hill nearby, said the Observatory, which monitors Syria's civil war using a network of sources on the ground.

A media spokesman for a rebel group operating in the area under the banner of the Free Syrian Army said it had shot the plane down.

"We targeted the (Russian-built) MiG aircraft while it was striking rebel positions on the front of Kafr Nabuda. We shot at it with our medium machine guns," Yasser Shehadeh of the al-Wosta division told Reuters via Internet messaging.

"One of the shots hit the plane, and we saw smoke coming out of it, then it crashed... near a regime-held area... we don't know about the fate of the pilot, but he probably got killed."

The movement of some 500-plus soldiers of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment from Vilsack in Bavaria to a Hungarian military base was intended to strengthen U.S. ties with the Czech, Slovak and Hungarian militaries and put Russia’s Vladimir Putin on notice. Dubbed “Dragoon Crossing,” the tour traced a winding 846- kilometer tour that featured airdrops and simulated bridge seizures to show America’s Eastern European allies that the U.S. military could respond quickly to any threat.

But not everyone is convinced. “This Stryker parade won’t fool anyone in Moscow,” says retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor. “The Russians don’t do many things well, but they have been subverting, destabilizing, invading and conquering their neighbors since Peter the Great. And what’s our response: a small unit of light armored trucks.”

On one side is Macgregor, an outspoken and controversial advocate for reform of the Army– whose weapons he describes as “obsolescent,” its senior leaders as “self-interested,” and its spending as “wasteful.” Viewed by many of his colleagues as one of the most innovative Army officers of his generation, Macgregor, a West Point graduate with a Ph.D. in international relations (“he can be pretty gruff,” a fellow West Point graduate says, “but he’s brilliant”), led the 2nd Cav’s “Cougar Squadron” in the best-known battle of Operation Desert Storm in February 1991. In 23 minutes, Macgregor’s force destroyed an entire Iraqi Armored Brigade (including nearly 70 Iraqi armored vehicles), while suffering a single American casualty. Speaking at a military “lessons learned” conference one year later, Air Force General Jack Welsh described the Battle of 73 Easting (named for a map coordinate) as “a stunning, overwhelming victory.”

But Macgregor is still fighting that battle. In early September he circulated a PowerPoint presentation showing that in a head-to-head confrontation pitting the equivalent of a U.S. armored division against a likely Russian adversary, the U.S. division would be defeated. “Defeated isn’t the right word,” Macgregor told me last week. “The right word is annihilated.” The 21-slide presentation features four battle scenarios, all of them against a Russian adversary in the Baltics – what one currently serving war planner on the Joint Chiefs staff calls “the most likely warfighting scenario we will face outside of the Middle East.”

mig29? i thought they mention su30?

One journalist tweeted that three Turkish planes were responding to "mysterious" lock-ons from Mig-29 jets, which are used by Putin's forces.

what model? 21 as shown in pic or?