Much better in what sense??? Looks awkward and funny thing rarely see arms forces using it except civilian shooters

J-31 good for RMAF, value for money, price estimated at usd 60-70 million each.
air frame have 6,000-8000 hrs lifespan. good to use 30 year, come with there own new WS13 engine which have estimated 2,000 hrs lifespan.
just politically hard for accept china top range product.

u try baru tau    but usually i use without scope.. with scope wont use that
j-20 is the top

Russia's military overall is inferior to the USA but Russia can dominate regions



The U.S. spends nearly 10 times more than Russia on national defense. The U.S. operates 10 aircraft carriers; Russia has just one. And the U.S. military maintains a broad technological edge and a vastly superior ability to project power around the world.

Russia is now developing some key technologies, new fighting tactics and a brazen geopolitical strategy that is aggressively undermining America's 25-year claim to being the only truly global superpower. The result: Russia is unexpectedly re-emerging as America's chief military rival.

At least locally, Russia has the potential to generate superior forces.

Russia has preserved, even modernized, its own "triad" with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, a large fleet of long-range strike aircraft and increasingly sophisticated nuclear-armed submarines.

There are specific conventional areas where the Russians excel — among them aircraft, air defenses, submarines, and electronic warfare.

China today spends more on defense annually than Russia, but still imports platforms and advanced weaponry from Russia.

Russia's airspace also is heavily fortified. The quality of Russia's stealth aircraft is far weaker than those of the U.S., but Russia has cutting-edge anti-stealth systems, and also has invested heavily in robust surface-to-air missile systems and arrayed its forces domestically to protect its border regions

NBF- Russia can protect its airspace and borders and can project dominant power a thousand miles from its borders. Russia has over ten times the military that the US faced in the Iraq wars.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/10/russias-m...nferior-to.html

AW139s for PDRM’s Air Wing

Marhalim Abas
October 9, 2015

SHAH ALAM: A LOCAL aviation company, Gading Aero Sdn Bhd, is claiming that its sister company, Galaxy Helicopters Sdn Bhd had received a contract from the Home Ministry to supply a number of Agusta Westland AW139 medium size helicopters to the PDRM’s Air Wing.

Both companies are under the Gading Group, which according to its website is located in Hulu Kelang, Selangor. The group also operate a hangar at Subang airport for its aviation-related operations.

I am using “a number” as the entry at the company’s own website stated two different figures. The page featuring Gading Aero claimed Galaxy Helicopters had received a contract to supply six AW139 helicopters to PDRM.

However on the Galaxy Helicopters page it was stated that “Malaysian Ministry Of Home Affairs awarded Galaxy Helicopters a contract to supply two Agusta Westland AW 139 helicopters for Royal Malaysian Police Air Wing”.

I called the contact number listed on the website and the man who answered said that Galaxy Helicopters indeed received a contract for six AW139 helicopters. However, as I have yet to get an official confirmation on the contract, I will leave it as that.

Industry sources told Malaysian Defence however that the contract for the deal was expected to be signed at the upcoming GPECAsia 2015 exhibition to be held at PWTC on Oct 21 to 23.

It must be noted that another company from the Gading Group, Gading Kasturi Sdn Bhd, was awarded the contract to supply six Airbus Helicopters H120 light helicopter and a single simulator for the RMAF flight training school in Alor Setar. The contract was signed at LIMA 2015.

Analysis
If indeed the contract has been awarded to Galaxy Helicopters, it appears that AgustaWestland had manage to score a coup over its main rival Airbus Helicopters. It was generally expected that PDRM will be getting a new batch of light helicopters from Airbus either a new batch of H125 ( the new name for the Ecureil) or the H135.

The Air Wing operates around 8 Ecureil light helicopters from the 11 it received. The first two was delivered in 1990. Since 2008, the police had stated a requirement for some two dozen or so, light and medium size helicopters for its Air Wing. The medium size helicopter is mainly for troop transport and utility role while the light helicopter is for patrol as well as utility duties as well.

The Air Wing’s lack of troop transport capability was exposed during the Lahad Datu incursion.

As the AW139 is a medium-size twin engine helicopter, the light helicopter requirement remains open and perhaps this will be fulfilled in the future, though this may well be later rather than sooner.

The Air Wing is not expected to have any difficulties in absorbing the AW139s as a number of these machines are already operating in Malaysia, both in the government (APMM and Bomba) and the private sector. A full mission simulator of the AW139 is also operating at the Airod facility in Subang.

Daesh has exploited the Russian airstrikes and the preoccupation of the Free Syrian Army in its battles in Hama, and advanced in Aleppo,” one rebel commander told Reuters.

The Islamic State advance is threatening a strategic area north of Aleppo on the way to crossing points into Turkey that was to be part of a proposed ISIS-free buffer zone under a plan the United States announced over the summer with Turkey. That plan now seems to have stalled.

These structures will reinforce China's claims to these waters, which extend across the bulk of the South China Sea and compete with territorial assertions made by as many as five other countries. As well, they will undoubtedly maintain or increase tensions with China's neighbors.

The high-tech munitions are part of a $8.6 million aid package intended to help the LAF defend the country’s eastern border from Sunni terrorists and other militias trying to breach the border from the Syrian side.

The aid package includes 50 Hellfire missiles and 560 artillery shells, including the “precision munitions,” according to the embassy statement.

A Lebanese military source told Reuters that the Hellfire missiles and 155 mm “smart artillery shells” have already been delivered to the LAF.

The American boost to the Lebanese army comes as Russia significantly increases its presence in Syria. Declaring its main goal as defeating Islamic State, Russian army warplanes have so far bombed dozens of targets in Syria, and according to Western officials, only a small proportion of the Russian assaults targeted Islamic State targets.

According to Defense Systems, DARPA is considering the use of UAVs with some sort of cloaking technology in order to make deliveries. The drones will make their drop, then disappear from the sky. The technology is being sought under the Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems (ICARUS) program, which requires the drones to be 100% invisible from the naked eye.

Development is currently underway, with DARPA seeking a testing device that will hold 3lbs payloads and be able to deliver them within 32ft. of a target based on GPS coordinates. Once the payload is dropped, the drone has to completely vanish — DARPA makes it clear that it isn’t interested in aerial vehicles that “technically disappear” from sight.

The ICARUS research would ultimately go toward supporting Special Forces and other military teams, as well as disaster relief teams that are sent to locations where they have minimal supplies. DARPA is splitting ICARUS into two project phases, each one lasting a full year. A proposer/proposal day will take place on October 15 for interested potential partners.

The Pentagon is identifying the missiles as SS-N-30s, and while US intelligence officials had been aware of an earlier model known as the SS-N-27, the sheer range demonstrated in Wednesday’s raid caught officials off-guard.

"It should be a wakeup call that we don’t have a monopoly on the capability," Eric Wertheim, a US naval analyst, told the Daily Beast.

He added that Russia has now joined what the Daily Beast described as "an exclusive club of global military powers. And that should worry the Pentagon."

Western analysts were also surprised by the fact that such long-range missiles were successfully fired from relatively small naval ships. The SS-N-30 is comparable to the Tomahawk missile, and in the US Navy, those are fired from vessel with a length of at least 500 feet.

Russia’s cruise missiles were fired from ships as small as 200 feet.

"Small ships, big firepower," Wertheim said.

u try baru tau    but usually i use without scope.. with scope wont use that
j-20 is the top

No chance for me to do that as i not in teh army. Doubt can shoot rifre in malaysia shooting range.. closest thing is pistol which is totally different thing lo 

lol... usd8.6 mill... 1 hari tembak habis
dude, you dont handle rifle why u comment..

go cambodia... nearest, old ak-47 and m16 avail

China has plans to grow its navy to 351 ships by 2020 as the Chinese continue to develop their military’s ability to strike global targets, according to a recent Congressional report.

Opponents of this strategy point out that the U.S. has 11 aircraft carriers, the Chinese have one and China's one carrier still lacks an aircraft wing capable of operating off of a carrier deck. However, several recent reports have cited satellite photos showing that China is now building its own indigenous aircraft carriers. Ultimately, the Chinese plan to acquire four aircraft carriers, the reports say.

These include the LUYANG III, a new class of Chinese destroyer slated to enter the fleet this year. These ships are being engineered with vertically-launched, long-range anti-ship cruise missiles, the commission said. The new destroyer will carry an extended-range variant of the HHQ-9 surface-to-air missile, among other weapons, the report says.

The Chinese are currently testing and developing a new, carrier-based fighter aircraft called the J-15.
Regarding amphibious assault ships, the Chinese are planning to add several more YUZHAO LPDs, amphibs which can carry 800 troops, four helicopters and up to 20 armored vehicles, the report said.

The Chinese are also working on development of a new Type 055 cruiser equipped with land-attack missiles, lasers and rail-gun weapons, according to the review.

China’s surface fleet is also bolstered by production of at least 60 smaller, fast-moving HOBEI-glass guided missile patrol boats and ongoing deliveries of JIANGDAO light frigates armed with naval guns, torpedoes and anti-ship cruise missiles.

The commission also says Chinese modernization plans call for a sharp increase in attack submarines and nuclear-armed submarines or SSBNs. Chinese SSBNs are now able to patrol with nuclear-armed JL-2 missiles able to strike targets more than 4,500 nautical miles.

The Chinese are currently working on a new, modernized SSBN platform as well as a long-range missile, the JL-3, the commission says.

SRC, Inc. was awarded a follow-on contract to provide Aklus Shield biological defense systems, training and support to the Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition (JUPITR) program.

JUPITR is a program led by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense supported by the Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, which will provide unique biological detection capabilities to decrease soldier workload, lower operational costs, increase performance and create a stronger biological defense capability throughout South Korea.