Malaysia and Singapore Have Trouble Putting Out Fire







http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2015/10/12/05...utting-Out-Fire

First C-28A corvette made by China for Algeria is en route



China is ready to turn over three C-28A corvettes built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group based in Shanghai to the Algerian Navy, according to Dzirhan Mahadzir, a military analyst stationed in Kuala Lumpur, in a piece for the UK-based IHS Jane's Defence Weekly on Oct. 6.

The first of the three vessels, known as the Adhafer, arrived at Boustead Cruise Centre in Port Klang, Malaysia last Tuesday to complete the first leg of its journey to North Africa before setting sail again for its final destination. A press conference held by the Royal Malaysian Navy indicated that 20 Chinese contractors from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group are accompanying the warship's crew of 120.

Mahadzir said that no member of the Royal Malaysian Navy was allowed to visit the ship while it was docked at the Boustead Cruise Centre. However, he claimed an officer of the Royal Malaysian Navy told him that the Adhafer is not expected to stop at any other port before it arrives in Algeria.

The ship has a length of 120 meters and a full-load displacement of around 3,000 tons, similar to the F-22P corvettes constructed by China for the Pakistan Navy. It is equipped with a single 76mm NG-16-1 gun, two quad launchers for C-802 anti-ship missiles, an octuple FM-90N launcher for HQ-7 surface-to-air missiles, two 30mm Type 730B close-in weapons systems, and two triple-tube torpedo launchers as well as four 24-barreled decoy launchers, Mahadzir said in the piece.

The Guancha Syndicate based in Shanghai said the C-28A is the export version of the Type 053H3 frigate.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news/content...000003&cid=1101

RAF helicopter crash; Five Nato staff die in Afghanistan





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PLAAF J-10 fighter crashes in training flight; pilot ejects





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India Commissions Largest Stealth Warship to Date





http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/india-commi...arship-to-date/

dint know we have chinook

esok beli semalam dapat

US Army tests drone-killing 50 mm cannon



The operational concept behind the Enhanced Area Protection and Survivability technology is to have a 50 mm course-corrected projectile intercept an incoming threat (Credit: US Army)

While civilian countermeasures to combat malicious drones is moving toward UAV-freezing radio beams, the US Army is taking a more permanent approach. Under development by the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, the Enhanced Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) system used steerable 50 mm smart rounds to shoot down two drones in recent tests.

The Army says that EAPS is a gun-based alternative to the missile-based Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) system currently favored by the US military. It was originally designed to counter rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM), but due to the increasing threat from UAVs the system’s mission was expanded to include drones.

Using a 50 mm cannon, EAPS fires guided interceptor projectiles guided by a precision tracking radar interferometer and a fire control computer. The system tracks the projectile and the target and computes an ideal trajectory correction. A radio transceiver then beams an engagement "basket" at the target for the projectile to home in on. Thrusters on the projectile are used for course correction and as it nears the target a forward-fragmenting warhead with a tantalum-tungsten alloy liner detonates to deal with C-RAM targets, while steel body fragments take out unmanned drones.

"In order to minimize the electronics on board the interceptor and to make it cheaper, all the 'smarts' are basically done on the ground station," says Manfredi Luciano, project officer for the EAPS Army Technology Objective. "The computations are done on the ground, and the radio frequency sends the information up to the round."

On August 19, EAPS underwent final proof-of-principle demonstration tests at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. During the test, it shot down two remotely piloted Outlaw class aircraft built by Griffon Aerospace at a range of 1 km (0.62 mi) and an altitude of 1,500 m (4,900 ft). This replicated the first EAPS shoot down of a loitering aircraft on April 22, but at 50 percent greater range.

According to Luciano, the technology developed for EAPS could one day be used in a newly configured Army or Navy tactical air defense system.

http://www.gizmag.com/us-army-eads-anti-drone-system/39781/

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7 killed in 3 helicopter crashes in Afghanistan within 2 days





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New Air-to-Surface Missiles to Arm Russian PAK FA Fighter Jet



The missiles are known as X-59MK2 and X-58USHKE.

The first projectile is designed to destroy located stationary ground targets. The targeting system is combined: inertial and satellite gps/glonass. A self-targeting optical-electronic device is activated on the last stage of the flight trajectory. The missile flies at an altitude of 50-300 meters. The missile can carry warheads of two types: penetrating and cluster.



The second missile is equipped with self-directing navigational gear. It can fly three times faster than the speed of sound for a distance of 250 kilometers while carrying a 150-kilogram explosive warhead.

Both missiles are being tested on board the PAK FA. According to Commander Viktor Bondarev, the T-50 equipped with weapons is showing excellent results.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20151012/1...w-missiles.html

‘We need World of Tanks gamers to operate robot tanks’ – Russia’s weapons chief



After a Russian defense firm revealed its plans to make a remotely-controlled tank in the near future, Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin announced that the military would soon need people experienced in the computer game “World of Tanks.”

“We need no tankers now, we need World of Tanks players” Rogozin wrote in a Monday tweet.

The comment came after Russian mass media distributed the release of the Uralvagonzavod company which claimed that in the nearest future it would make the T-90 tank remotely controllable from distances of 3 to 5 kilometers.

This was not the first time Rogozin voiced his preferences in drone technologies. In early September he wrote that very soon we all would witness the situation in which an army manned with “bespectacled nerds” would completely destroy the forces of “handsome athletes who fight on a lower technological level.”

T-90 is the previous model of the main battle tank produced by Uralvagonzavod, now the enterprise switches the production to more modern Armata tank. However, the export variants of the vehicle are still being offered and the experimental remotely operated machines are being developed.

World of Tanks is a free online multiplayer computer game released by Belarus company Wargaming in 2010. In 2014 Forbes magazine estimated the number of registered WOT users at over 50 million.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=Post...&f=23&t=3713776

Video — U.S.-Indian War Game



You’d think the United States and India would make natural allies. A majority of Indians say they have a favorable view of America. The world’s two largest democracies, both suspicious of China’s growing military strength, should be the best of friends, right?

Not exactly. No formal military alliance exists between the two powers. The reason why … is a long story.

U.S. support of arch-rival Pakistan from the Cold War to the present day, and fear among Indian elites that superpower America could overturn India’s new and fragile sovereignty have kept the countries at a distance. Soviet aid to India didn’t help make many friends in Washington, either.



But that’s changing, albeit slowly. During a recent counter-insurgency exercise in Washington state, Kevin Knodell watched Indian and U.S. Army troops train together and carry out mock battles. The video above includes some highlights.

New Delhi’s military is experienced in this kind of fighting due to Islamist insurgencies in Kashmir and a slow-burning Maoist rebellion in the interior. But the driving principle behind these exercises is building military-to-military ties. Think of it as diplomacy … with guns.

It helps that both armies can learn from each other, and it’s good practice as the U.S. Army shrinks in size and relies more on foreign partners abroad. Indian military culture is rigid, while the U.S. Army tends to give its non-commissioned officers a great deal more autonomy.

The exercise was also a relief for the American soldiers, despite a few cultural mishaps. (MREs provided to the Indians contained beef … which the soldiers politely handed back.) No harm done, fortunately. At the end of the day, training with an experienced foreign military is a lot easier than creating one from scratch.

http://warisboring.com/articles/video-u-s-indian-war-game/

Haha fail at reporting

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but Sutopo said Malaysia is providing assistance by deploying a Chinoox aircraft, while Singapore sent a Chinoox helicopter

we have Chinoox aircraft not heli like SG

its a new brand, Chinnox from PRC

Look like tauntaun patrol in starwars

British used Agent Orange in Malaya 10 years before the US used it in Vietnam



The British government has used Trioxone in the Malayan Emergency 10 years before the US military used in in Vietnam. Trioxone, better known as Agent Orange, is a chemical defoliant that speeded up the metabolism of plants and forces the plant to shed its leaves.

During the Emergency, the insurgent Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and its supporters lived in and around the dense tropical jungle. British forces were concerned about the cover the jungle provided and how it could aid ambushes and sabotage efforts by the MPLA.

The development of Trioxone, along with other herbicides, was brought to the attention of a General Harold Briggs, the head of UK armed forces in Malaya in 1951. Widespread testing and spraying using modified fire fighting vehicles was approved in 1952. This resulted in ICI’s entire stock of Trioxone being bought by the UK-run Malay administration.

A follow-up report ultimately showed cutting down the forested areas by hand was cheaper due to the abundance of labour and spraying was stopped. To avoid embarrassment from purchasing a large quantity of an expensive and potentially useless chemical, it was then decided by the administration, led by Sir Gerald Templer, the then High Commissioner, to target the insurgents’ food supplies that were being grown in inaccessible parts of the jungle. Spraying by helicopter commenced in March 1953.

The US government later cited the use of Agent Orange by the British in Malaya as a precedent in arguing the legality of Operation Ranch Hand, the massive spraying of the Vietnamese countryside with Agent Orange to destroy the forest cover used by the Viet Cong.

Russia's Cruise Missiles Raise the Stakes in the Caspian.

'' The 3M-14T spends most of its flight path at subsonic speeds around
15 meters above the surface, and makes a supersonic dash to the target
in its final phase. ''


http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-...-in-the-caspian

US abandons $500 Million training project for 'moderate'Syrian rebels, airdrops 50 tons of arms and ammunition instead



The U.S. military airdropped 50 tons of small arms ammo and grenades in northern Syria on Sunday, a senior defense official said, representing the Pentagon's shift from training rebel fighters to equipping them.

Coming just two days after the Defense Department announced it was effectively ending its current training program, the airdrop delivery was made Sunday by four C-17 transport aircraft. The 112 pallets contained ammunition for M-16s and AK-47s.

"All the pallets reached friendly forces," the official said, adding that the drop "looked similar to what we did in Kobani." This referred to one of the few bright spots in the war against the Islamic State when the U.S. military dropped weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters, known as the YPG, who successfully expelled ISIS from the Turkish-Syrian border town of Kobani earlier this year.

This time, the official said Syrian Kurds were not recipients of the U.S. airdrop -- only Syrian Arabs fighting ISIS. There is sensitivity in Washington over arming Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey sees as an enemy but the U.S. counts as a NATO ally.

The 50 tons of supplies were airdropped into Al-Hasakah province, home to Syrian Kurds, Arabs and a minority Assyrian community.

U.S. military considering upgrading biometric identification technologies





http://www.biometricupdate.com/201510/u-s-...on-technologies

got link? pls post with source...

inb4 rebels sell gifts to isis for $$$ and sex slaves