Its a demonstration. Putin knows how to make an entrance man!

That pussy in the White House still no response?

Nahh...Iraq is in some disarray now, but its far from a broken-down third world country. They still have air defense capabilities and a few fighter planes to deploy if they really want to block any Russian use of their airspace.

Work Re-started on PCU Gagah Samudera

Marhalim Abas October 8, 2015 Malaysia -RMN

SHAH ALAM: REMEMBER PCU Gagah Samudera? After almost a delay of three years, work has restarted to complete the first of two RMN new training ships. The fitting out of the 75-metre ship is being carried out at the Grade One Marine Shipyard Sdn Bhd in Lumut, Perak.

Industry sources told Malaysian Defence that work on Gagah Samudera = pennant number 271 – is expected to be completed by year end and commissioning by early 2016. If indeed Gagah is commissioned in 2016, it will mean that her entry into service is delayed for almost three years. It was supposed to enter service in RMN by mid-2013.

Gagah Samudera was launched on Dec 14, 2012 while her sister ship, Teguh Samudera – pennant number 272 – on Feb 27, 2013. Both were supposed to be commissioned within six months after their launch at the NGV Tech Sdn Bhd yard in Sinjangkang, Selangor.

However, both ships remained incomplete and uncommissioned as NGV Tech was foreclosed by Maybank sometime in 2013. NGV Tech signed the RM294 million contract with RMN for the construction of the training vessels at LIMA 2011.

Malaysian Defence had reported late last year that efforts were underway for the Defence Ministry to take possession of both ships so work on them could be completed. However, it was delayed for some months due to legal issues.

Once those were resolved both Gagah and Teguh were towed to Lumut from their berths, the RMN Hydrography Center in Port Klang and the former NGV Tech yard in Sinjankang, respectively. Gagah had been towed to Port Klang before NGV Tech was foreclosed while Teguh remained at Sinjangkang until recently.

Unfortunately, Teguh will not be completed for the time being as industry sources said only Gagah had been funded for completion and commissioning. It is believed work on Teguh will only start when funds become available, hopefully once Gagah is commissioned.

Gagah Samudera/Teguh Samudera numbers:

Length 76.5 metres
Displacement 1270 ton
Crew 45
Trainees 80
Endurance 21 days
Speed 20 knots
Twin diesel engines
X-band navigation radar
S-band navigation radar
2 RHIB.
1 30mm RWS

Note. I referred this ships as PCU – Pre Commissioning Units as per the US Navy practice – as they have not been commissioned.

i see... 
org muslim chechnya lawan untuk russia? betol ke nih... ingat semua pemberontak
proxy war for world powers

chechen yg ni pro-russia. kt chechnya sendiri pun kadyrov masih xle kawal elemen2 anti-russia tu.
tapi bagus gak dia pegi lawan da'esh tu. munafik lawan munafik. hahahahaha

well, that's the diff between a democratic country vs an autocratic country... and surprisingly russia's mobilization is kinda fast this time
far from a broken-down third world country? you gotta be kidding me... they probably dont even have a working radar system with only certain areas covered... iraq have air force capable of stopping cruise missiles? well, they can try... and face the consequences with russian warships at their seashore

chechen yg ni pro-russia. kt chechnya sendiri pun kadyrov masih xle kawal elemen2 anti-russia tu.
tapi bagus gak dia pegi lawan da'esh tu. munafik lawan munafik. hahahahaha

Obama just has no balls plain and simple. Margaret Thatcher had loads more balls than him.

What were those fighters Iraq was given earlier this year? F-16s IIRC. Won't do much against all those top tier SUs and MIGs and ships.

As long as it's for the direct purpose of attacking ISIS...Iran and Iraq provides passage for Russia's aircraft and missiles....We don't hear any protest from them, right?

Lockheed Martin ready to provide RI with offsets for F-16V

Novan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | World | Thu, October 08 2015, 8:31 AM

US defense giant Lockheed Martin is ready to provide Indonesia with an offset scheme, in which Indonesia would build components, should the country decide to buy the latest variant of the venerable F-16 Fighting Falcon light jet fighter.

The pledge was made by Lockheed’s head of business development for F-16, Randy Howard, during a media event on Wednesday.

He said the company was ready to discuss with Indonesian stakeholders the requirements related to the offset scheme. “We have fulfilled our offset commitment when Indonesia first bought the F-16,” he told journalists.

Indonesia first bought 12 units of F-16 A/B Block 15 OCU aircraft in 1989 with an offset scheme of 35 percent of the total purchase value.

Lockheed presented a cockpit simulator for members of the media to try the latest technologies being installed in the F-16V (Viper).

The US Ambassador to Jakarta Robert O. Blake, Jr. attended the event and said both countries had strong and growing relations, including strong defense ties.

“The US military very much values the growing cooperation with the TNI,” he said.

Blake added that the US was helping Indonesia to modernize its military through training and equipment, including aircraft. “Indonesia has a very long tradition of flying the F-16,” he said, adding that he was proud to have the F-16 V.

The ambassador added that the latest variant of F-16, which no longer has the Block number system, was well suited to Indonesia as it could also track maritime targets.

“The radar can pick up ships and prevent illegal fishing and other incursions,” he said.

Another reason to pick the F-16, Blake said, was because it had 30 percent lower operating costs when compared to its competitors.

Howard said currently there were a number of F-16 operators upgrading their F-16 Block 50/52 into the Viper standard but Indonesia would be the first country to operate brand new F-16Vs if it chose to.

When asked why Lockheed Martin was offering the Viper to Indonesia, Howard said because there was a need to replace older aircraft.

He was referring to Indonesia’s plan to replace the aging, American-made Northrop F-5 E/F Tiger II planes operated by the 14th Squadron, based at the Iswahjudi Air Force Base in Madiun, East Java.

Other than the F-16, another light, single-engine contender is the Swedish-made Saab JAS39 Gripen.

Three other contenders are heavy, dual engine jet fighters: the Eurofighter Typhoon, made by a consortium consisting of Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK; the French-made Dassault Rafale; and the Russian-made Sukhoi Su-35.

Each contender has offered a significant industrial participation scheme to sweeten the deal.

Howard said it would take between 30 and 36 months for first delivery once an agreement was reached.

Compared to Iron Man's suit, TALOS is a liquid armor that can solidify when it's hit by a bullet, which is more technologically advanced, but it won't have flying capabilities or a built-in JARVIS, although it has in-helmet technologies that improve visibility and provide better communication with the rest of the troop.

A chemical engineering professor from the University of Delaware Norman Wagner applied nanotechnology to produce this adaptive liquid material.

"These particles organize themselves quickly, locally in a way that they can't flow anymore and they become like a solid," Wagner explained the technology to NPR.

Just like Stark's suit, TALOS is fitted with built-in sensors that monitor the wearer's health, checking conditions from heart rate to body temperature.

Iran very much strongest Russian ally in the region besides Egypt. US lost its influence in Iraq after the fall of Ali al-Maliki. New PM Haider al-Abadi is pretty much Iran's puppet in Iraq.

Nowadays Russia also have been cozying up Jordan and UAE as potential regional partners alongside Egypt. Recently Putin invited them to Moscow for a counter-terrorism conference which unsurprisingly, Saudi Arabia and Qatar declined to attend.

The photographs, taken by a Turkish blogger who passed them to Reuters, follow a Reuters report that Russia has set up a seaborne lifeline via the Bosphorus to supply its armed forces in Syria and President Bashar Assad’s forces as it steps up its involvement in the conflict.

The photographs come at a sensitive time in relations between Russia and Turkey after two Russian warplanes strayed into Turkish airspace at the weekend, angering Ankara and prompting threats of retaliation.

Reuters reported last month that a Russian ferry called the Alexandr Tkachenko had docked at the Syrian port of Tartous on Sept. 11, where Moscow leases a naval facility, after stopping off to pick up cargo at the Russian port of Novorossiisk.

Its journey was part of a significant uptick in merchant shipping heading for Syria from Russia; it was one of six ships that made their way from Novorossiisk to Syria within two weeks in mid-September.