A convoy of the Indonesian Army Caesar 155mm SPHs. Credit to Rudita Puspitasari.

Russian Airborne Troops Test New Air Defense Control System



MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the spokesperson, the Barnaul-T system, recently delivered to the Pskov-based airborne troops division, is supposed to reduce the time needed to search for and ultimately destroy air targets.
"Divisions of Russian airborne troops have put the latest Barnaul-T automation systems in operation for the first time in order to provide coverage for areas of high [airborne] divisional concentration," a ministry spokesperson said.

On Monday morning, a formation of airborne troops in the Pskov region was set to the highest degree of combat readiness. Over 2,500 paratroopers and about 300 military hardware units are participating in the planned military exercises. The exercises are expected to last for five days.

The Barnaul-T automated air defense control system was developed to search for air targets, receive information from other systems of detection, as well as plotting targets' trajectories.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20160215/1...est-troops.html

Read more: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/def...5-and-lots-more

Chechen leader: Saudi-led coalition protects ISIS from full destruction





https://www.rt.com/politics/332515-chechen-...-led-coalition/

how the hell MEF does not know what ATM is doing when they are their boss?

dont tell another brain kat belakang?

FMT?
LOL, Saudi minister of defence even come to mindef last January takkan tak tahu.

Read more: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/def...et-buy-chinooks

Just some photos to share as no time to post process yet, 2016 Singapore Airshow Trade Day 1.


https://xtemujin.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/2...ntre-singapore/

Shocking video shows entire district destroyed by Russian cluster bombs in Aleppo as air strikes hit five hospitals and two schools and death toll has hit 50





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-34...ganisation.html

Hishammuddin: It’s a military exercise, not operation



PETALING JAYA: Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein today denied that Malaysia’s Armed Forces (ATM) took part in a Saudi Arabia-led military campaign against Yemeni rebels, clarifying that it was instead a joint military exercise involving other countries as well.

In rubbishing claims on social media that it was a military campaign, Hishammuddin explained that the exercise, dubbed “Thunder of the North” witnessed the participation of the airforce, army and navy from 20 countries, including Malaysia.

He added the military exercise – held at Hafar Al Batin – would begin today and carry on until March 4.

The joint exercise, Hishammuddin pointed out, had been going on for 15 years.

“While I have been consistent in stating that Malaysia is supportive of efforts to curb militancy, our Armed Forces have never taken part in any military operation in Yemen.”

Hishammuddin also pointed out the exercise was held north of Saudi Arabia, while Yemen is located south of the border.

“Thus it is clear the exercise has no link whatsoever with the military campaign in Yemen.”

It was reported earlier by SPA, a Saudi Arabia news agency that Malaysia was participating in a massive and “critically important” military mission there.

Hishammuddin also explained that the joint exercise would give the ATM the much-needed opportunity to understand High Availability Disaster Recovery procedures as well as methods to extract Malaysians from conflict zones.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...-not-operation/

IS releases video of Malaysian militant minutes after he was shot in PH





http://globalnation.inquirer.net/136601/is...-was-shot-in-ph

How Will New Subs Affect Vietnam's South China Sea Strategy?





http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/how-will-ne...a-sea-strategy/

Dailymail uk is the Utusan of Malaysia

always based on hear say and then make the news

Iraq military helicopter crashes, killing nine





[sos]

SS-21 Scarab missile usually armed with cluster bomblet dispenser instead of HE warhead, that why most pics will often have a strangely intact missile even after a missile strike.



If HE warhead the entire missile would have been destroyed in the explosion. Here after finished scattering cluster bomblet, the missile will just crash after the fuel burnt out, thus leaving a relatively intact missile.


Eastern Ukraine


Georgia


P.S: Epic fail, where got SS-21 Scarab missile launch by ship?

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Feb 17 2016, 07:40 AM

Exclusive: Whistleblowers Warned Top Spy About Skewed ISIS Intel





http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016...isis-intel.html

Exclusive: This Is The First Known Image Of DARPA's Submarine-Hunting Drone Ship





http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/exclusive...subm-1759205822

New Fuel Increases Range of Russian Cruise Missiles by 185 Miles



MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A new propellant could be used in the engines of hypersonic strategic cruise missiles to increase their range by up to 300 kilometers (185 miles), Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov said Tuesday.

"Over the past few years, Decylin-M fuel, which enables the range of strategic cruise missiles to be increased by 250-300 kilometers, began to be used by the Russian Armed Forces," Bulgakov told reporters.

Cruise missiles are widely used in Russia's anti-terrorist campaign in Syria, which is being conducted at Damascus' request. On October 7, the first launch of Kalibr cruise missiles (NATO reporting name SS-N-27 "Sizzler"), used in the Syrian air campaign, was conducted from the Caspian Sea. All the missiles reached their targets, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20160216/1...fuel-range.html

Russia Defense Report - Feb. 17, 2016: 1st Guards Tank Army




Written and produced by SF Team: J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson

The formation of Tank Armies, which were eventually raised to Guards ranks once they demonstrated their ability to defeat Wehrmacht forces, was a major step in the Red Army’s operational evolution during the Great Patriotic War. Even though the Soviets were temporarily surpassed by the Panzerwaffe which gained experience from operations in Poland and Western Europe, once the Tank Armies were formed, German forces could no longer claim to be the most skilled or effective practitioners of armored warfare. The 1st Guards Tank Army was one of six such armies formed during the Great Patriotic War. After the war it became part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, where it remained until it was withdrawn to Russia in the 1990s.

The changes in the international environment, the desire to cash in on the “peace dividend”, the need to fight the Chechen insurgency, and Russia’s economic crisis all led to the disbandment of tank armies. In the absence of significant external military threat to Russian territory, the only permanent readiness units would be motorized rifle and tank brigades, which were subordinated directly to army headquarters. These brigades would screen the borders and allow the lower-readiness divisions, which were transformed into equipment storage depots with minimal personnel, to be mobilized for war.

The Maidan coup, the high-intensity civil war in Ukraine, and NATO expanding its permanent presence eastward, forced the reversal of the earlier policies. There was now a large country with a hostile, Nazi-friendly regime and close NATO ties right on Russia’s western border. Moreover, the fighting in Ukraine demonstrated the advantage of having large and permanently established maneuver formations. Independently operating battalions, regiments, and brigades lacked the ability to deliver a knock-out punch, and coordinating a large number of such units was difficult for higher headquarters. The NATO-style tactic of putting together task forces and battlegroups out of available units which was used by the Ukrainian army also proved ineffective because units which do not train together in peacetime will not fight well together in wartime. Therefore the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to reactivate 4 divisions and bring 2 existing ones, the 4th Guards Tank and 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle, to permanent readiness status to give the Russian Ground Forces several large high-readiness formations that would pack the offensive punch smaller units did not have and to re-establish the Soviet-era regiment-division organizational structure which is better suited for high-intensity combat operations. But it went one step further by ordering the reactivation of the 1st Guards Tank Army, with headquarters near Moscow, and assigned to the Western Military District. Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu named the activation of the new formations one of the top priorities for 2016.

There is no information yet on how many divisions and brigades the 1st Guards Tank Army will have assigned. Great Patriotic War-era tank armies had two or three division-size units permanently assigned. During the Cold War, each Soviet tank army had four tank divisions. The activation of new divisions suggests that the newly reformed 1st Guards Tank Army is likely to have three or four permanently assigned tank and motorized rifle divisions and a number of separate brigades which would make it the largest permanently organized land forces formation between Urals and the Atlantic. Its reactivation will give the Russian Ground Forces the ability to exploit its superior expertise at the operational level of war, which was already shown during the Crimea operation which NATO was took NATO completely by surprise and which is currently being demonstrated in Syria. The location of its headquarters indicates it will be Russian high command’s strategic reserve, to be used to deliver the decisive blows of the land campaign, following the example of the 1st Guards Tank Army which was among the first Red Army units to enter Berlin in 1945.

In order to ensure battlefield superiority over NATO forces, divisions and brigades of the 1st Guards Tank Army will be the first to receive the new Armata, Kurganets, and Bumerang vehicles once they enter production. In order to ensure high readiness, they will contain a high proportion of contract soldiers. Once it achieves initial operational capability, the army will become an important component of Russia’s conventional deterrence, and a decisive warfighting tool should the need to use it arise.

MMEA set to receive new Patrol vessels by 2018
This is serious money right there, around $180 million USD for 2 coast guard ships. I wonder what he is talking about?