btw,

what's in Semporna?

Today alone so many jets on a "holding" pattern in the skies.

Choppers all inbound and shitz.

In Semporna.

dunno why you guys saying that only now? msians ady died in their kidnapping bid before this, and also a taiwanese in 2013

though this case kinda weird as they let go one of the hostage but few days later they behead another one, probably just to impress their big brother isis after the paris attack, and looking how they operate they do it for the money and killing the hostage is not in their objectives

KL and Manila to set up task force to find Bernard Then's killers



Kuala Lumpur and Manila will set up a Malaysian-Philippine joint taskforce to track down those responsible for the slaying of engineer Bernard Then Ted Fen.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told the New Straits Times this morning that he would personally go over to Manila to engage his counterpart in bringing those responsible to book.

Khalid said the meeting would also be focused on wiping out future threats posed by the militant group, Abu Sayyaf, which had been responsible for the numerous kidnap-for-ransom cases, where they would storm locations in Sabah and snatch their victims.

In most cases, the victims would be immediately be brought back to their stronghold, in Jolo Island.

On Tuesday, Then, an engineer from Sarawak who was 39, became the first Malaysian kidnap victim to be slain by the terrorist group.

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JAPAN’S STEALTH FIGHTER WILL FLY FOR FIRST TIME NEXT YEAR



Only a handful of countries have ever built and successfully flown a stealth fighter. Early next year, Japan may join their ranks, with scheduled test flights of its first experimental stealth fighter expected within the first three months of 2016. The Advanced Technology Demonstrator X, or ATD-X, is a tentative step forward into rare skies, and comes at a time when most of Japan's neighbors are either building or buying stealth fighters of their own.

Financial Review notes that Hirofumi Doi, a program manager at the Ministry of Defence, gave the timeframe for the flight in an interview in Tokyo. The plane is built by Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The 46-foot-long plane was developed at a cost of $440 million (or the cost of roughly three F-35s), and it’s been in the works for a while. Last year, we caught a grainy glimpse of the plane, and even if all goes well with the first flight, we shouldn’t expect it to enter service any time before the 2030s.

When it does, it will be just one of many potential stealth fighters based in the Eastern Pacific, including American F-22s and F-35s, the Russian PAK FA, China’s J-20 and J-31, and even Korean and Indian projects. The ATD-X is a possible replacement for Japan’s current fleet of F-16-derived F-2 fighters. And when it enters service, it will join a Japanese military that is still constitutionally prohibited from offensive war but has been robustly building its strength for decades.

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