In my opinion, armed UAVs have pretty much took over the light strike/reconnaissance airplane role. UAVs have tons more advantages in that role than a piloted plane. Any country that could afford UAVs has really no reason to go back to manned planes in that role.

TUSCOR LLOYDS TRANSPORTS REFUELING TANKER



UK freight forwarder and shipping agent Tuscor Lloyds has delivered an out-of-gauge tactical refueling tanker from Stafford in the north of England to Penang, Malaysia.

The military vehicle was shipped to the Malaysian Armed Forces and required a special license to be carried. The cargo weighed a total of 23 tons and to transport it the project team at Tuscor Lloyds had to split the tank and truck into separate sections.

Each part of the cargo was then loaded onto individual 40-foot flat rack containers, which were driven, escorted by members of the British Armed Forces, to the port of Felixstowe.

Once at the port, the cargo was loaded aboard a ship using a heavy-lift crane, ready for the 38-day trip to the port of Pennag.

The transportation and loading process was fully managed and supervised by Tuscor Lloyd’s project team, led by Martyn Blackburn. The tactical refueling tanker will be used in military operations to supply fuel in battlefield scenarios.

“Logistics for the military sector can be difficult, but thanks to the experienced project cargo handlers at Tuscor Lloyds and the military/port side personnel assisting throughout, the tactical refueling tanker arrived in Malaysia within the scheduled time and budget for the shipment,” a spokesperson for Tuscor Lloyds said.

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This has been anticipated. Erdogan will face a formidable Kurdish force. One that's been trained and armed by the American and now receive extra boost by the Russian. Anyone wonder why Turkey sent their troops to northern Iraq and mati mati doesn't want to pull back despite being warned by the Iraqi? The Syrian saga has provided the Kurd the best ever chance to fight for their own land since WWII. They are being armed and trained in an unprecedented scale by the major global players.

Frankly, no. Especially Sepatu Timur brand (the very shoes Malaysian military/LE issue to all its personnel).

If you want a comfortable heavy duty shoes, try going for summer hiking boots. They don't provide similar ankle support like military boots (not that you'd need them for casual use anyway), but these boots is tough as nail. For MYR100/200, you might as well as going for Weinbrenner boots (you can find those in any Bata store). They're surprisingly durable actually. I've used those for casual hiking and spelunking.

because nothing pisses off the turks more than a large Kurdistan movement......maybe Assad would have to concede some territory at the end of the day to pay off Russia with this, but still.....nothing pisses off the Turks more than a large Kurdistan movement or better yet.....independent Kurdistan

Blame not the Russians but the Turks for shooting down that plane

You can outfit UAVs with whatever you want, as long as the pylon fits and the ordnance weight is within limits. I have seen UAVs fitted with everything from 20mm cannon pods, unguided rockets and up to 2,000 laser-guided bombs. They are usually armed with guided missiles because they are on a precision strike missions.

There's also nothing wrong with a UAV's visual system. The UAVs cameras fitted are very powerful electro-optical equipment (popularly cited as able to zoom onto a beer crate from 60,000 feet in the air). They cameras also have IR and thermal seekers, far better than than trying to spot ground targets with pilot eyes alone. The cameras are also able to pivot over the entire 180 degree coverage underneath the UAV, which in the main duty of seeking ground targets.

There's also the phenomenal loiter time of UAVs, especially the larger ones like MQ-9 Reaper which can remain on patrol for a maximum of 14 hours. Even if the pilots are exhausted, a relief crew can replace them at the control module at base. UAVs can also be set on autopilot on a series of rally points to patrol a given geographical area.

The main problem of UAVs nowadays are the doctrine in which they are used, not the capabilities of the UAVs themselves.

Setting up mid to high tier UAV ain't cheap.
You need a satellites, hq, support facilities and so on.

The local distributer only bring in by order basis. I worried that my feet cant fit onto the size. Looks goods but for the time being i will stick to kulit kraft.

What model your kazen wearing?

looks solid from the look, did he got it locally or brought online?

Hello !

Prepping to kill some ISIS bastards

no need bro . I'm good with my good ol' wife M16 . That's what makes me a good marksman , not even M4 and Steyr

A ship owned by Maritim Malaysia going repair in MMHE's dry dock. There is also KD Jebat next to this ship

and kids, this is why you should buy AK47s     

maybe those suluks only intend to store for few days only.. end up losing against our army, then they never had chance to recover it

For filthy rich drug cartel, these stuff is small beer. Especially when there are capitalists north of the border keen on selling guns.

20 rounds mag?

CMN Ocean Eagle 43 Trimaran Patrol Vessel Sea Trial in Sea State 5 for Mozambique.

Well, the majority of global air forces use probe-and-drogue C-130 or Il-76 for midair refueling so I think it is the best current solution.

If you are proposing an actual dedicated tanker like a KC-135 Stratotanker or KC-10 Extender, I don't think we can afford something like that anytime soon.

Use the Bunga Mas auxiliary ships model, or straightaway RMN buy a few used MISC container ships and use them as supply vessels.