That's a ridiculous fictionalized K-drama. Go overseas still got time for romance-romance. Reality is around 120% worse for servicemen.

Also, you fight for your country's interest, not a leader's interest (similar, but not the same). You go where they tell you to.

People think being in the military is all thrill and adventure, the closer truth is most of it is boring routine and monotony. And all those drills, man!

Nope, too busy cleaning barracks floor with toothbrush.

Most military don't have specific exercise routine, most soldiers look like that because all they do mostly is walk very long distances carrying heavy combat loads. So soldiers most of the time look skinny as fuck, but have tremendous stamina. A good soldier can carry a 15kg combat pack while walking 30-40km, all within 12 hours.

PGA will be upgraded as a department - TPM



Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the government has plans to upgrade the General Operations Force (GOF) to a departmental position to improve the team's excellence in maintaining the safety and sovereignty of the country.

Ahmad Zahid, who is also Home Minister, said the move was seen to expand the employment aspects of the team.

"God willing, one day PGA will become a department with a director-general appointed and promoted more members," he said at a gathering with members of the PGA in Batu Kawa, Kuching today.

Also present were Chief of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar and Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Muhammad Sabtu Osman.

Now there are 10 departments under the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP).

Why pic show a KSA F-15?

Can see how huge the Kurganets IFV compared to the BMP-3, I think the Kurganets hull is as tall as the entire BMP-3.

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In these situations Google will be your best friend.

Anyway, here's the explanation, from Wiki:
Calling them 'Improvised light fighting vehicle' would also be a good official term.

Well, the key word here is 'improvised'. I think we can all agree improvised stuff doesn't often match purpose-built equipment. The better value of them would be availability, reliability and mobility.

As long as the technical is mobile and can carry a working gun, it's still counts as a threat. Furthermore, technical-style warfare is mostly the hit and run light cavalry-style actions where mobility and speed is more valuable than heavy armor.

Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines plan three-pronged joint action to take on Abu Sayyaf kidnappers



With the Abu Sayyaf militants moving their kidnapping operations to the high seas after the crackdown in Lahad Datu, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are now planning an offensive at sea to put the pirates and militants out of action.

Foreign ministers and top military officials from the countries will meet in Jogjakarta today to seek the best approaches and security solutions to curb the perennial threat of kidnappings and criminal activities in the shared borders and seas.

The meeting was called by Indonesia amid growing concerns over the security situation in southern Philippines where cross-border criminals linked to the Abu Sayyaf grabbed 14 Indonesians and four Malaysian sailors plying the international maritime waters along the Philippine side of the border in three separate incidents between March 26 and April 8.

Indonesia’s Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said the southern Philippine re­gion might become like waters off Somalia where kidnappings were rampant.

Two Indonesian-flagged vessels – the Brahma 12 tugboat and the Anand 12 barge – were hijacked and 10 Indonesian sailors were taken hostage in southern Philippines on March 26. They were released on Sunday.

Four more Indonesian sailors from tugboat TB Henry are still being held by the gunmen in Jolo. Four Malaysian sailors are also in the hands of the gunmen.

The Sabah government moved to immediately stop the centuries-old sea border barter trade with southern Philippines in a bid to secure its borders while Indonesia temporarily halted its vessels from plying the maritime route between Sabah’s east coast and Tawi Tawi in the Philippines.

Among the proposals that Putrajaya and Jakarta are keen to pursue with Manila is to have joint patrols to secure the Celebes and Sulu seas maritime routes.

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, Indonesia’s Retno Marsudi and Phi­lip­­pines’ Albert Del Rosario are sche­duled to meet together with their respective chief of forces to discuss the solutions.

During a meeting last month in Manila, Rosario had told Anifah that the Philippines was keen to step up patrols within its borders while Malaysia patrolled its own.

He also suggested that both southern Philippines and Malaysia each have only one sea exit and entry point. Any boat using any other exit or entry point could be stopped by the joint patrols.

Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines ink joint sea security deal



Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines agreed Thursday to run coordinated patrols to boost maritime security following the kidnappings at sea of Indonesians by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants.

Foreign ministers and military chiefs of the three countries held talks in Yogyakarta, hashing out the details of joint patrols to protect shipping in the waters between their border areas.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said the threat from robbery, kidnapping and other transnational crime, if not addressed appropriately, can undermine the confidence in trade and commerce, which in turn can adversely affect the economic activities and welfare of peoples in the surrounding areas.

She said the area between Zulu islands in southern Philippines and Indonesia's Sulawesi island is a strategic economic waterway where over 55 million metric tons of crude and over 18 million people pass through.

"We will undertake a coordinated patrol in the maritime areas of our common concern," Marsudi told a news conference after the meeting that attended by her counterparts Anifah Aman from Malaysia and Jose Rene D. Almendras from Philippines and military chiefs from the three countries.

"Nationals of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have all been victims," she said, "We have to take action to ensure our citizens felt protective, keep undertaking their activities in that area."

A joint declaration the participants issued later expressed "grave concern" over the growing security challenges, such as those arising from armed robbery, transnational crimes and terrorism in the region.

It said they agreed to render immediate assistance for the safety of people and ships in distress within the area and to intensify cooperation in sharing information and intelligence as well as to establish a hotline of communication to improve cooperation during emergency and security threats.

Marsudi said officials of the three countries will meet again to formulate operating procedures of the maritime patrols.

Very bad design. You're basically asking your infantry to dismount straight into enemy fire.

There's a reason most IFV/APC have rear exit ramps, so that the infantry will be covered by the hull of the vehicle from frontal fire.

Probably to counteract the fact that the rear door is really small and could probably let one infantryman dismount at a time. Converting a tank into an APC will usually have this problem, namely no dedicated space and exit point for infantry. Not to mention a tank hull will be much more cramped.

For me the one who takes the cake for THE most ridiculous exit door design for an APC was with the Soviet BTR-70 8x8 APC. The exit doors were literally small hatches located between the second and third wheels of the vehicles.

As Soviet doctrine calls for mechanized infantry to dismount their vehicles while on the move, I can only wonder how many Red Army soldiers have been accidentally run over while dismounting before the Soviets improved the exit door design with a larger two-piece hatch in the later BTR-80 versions onward.


Romanian mechanized Infantrymen dismounting a BTR-70. You can see an infantryman exiting the exit hatch.

Well, on the bright side APCs with 2 side door designs like SIBMAS or Condor allow infantry to dismount from the opposite side of the APC in the event the vehicle is taking fire from one side.

If a rear-ramped vehicle is caught in such an attack it could be dangerous for the infantry to dismount as the ramp is the only exit. I'm not against the 2 side door designs, just that the BTR-70 has ridiculously small and misplaced hatches it would be more dangerous for infantry to dismount that way.

Aiya, just replace carry handle upper receiver with a receiver with RIS rail attached. Easy to do on a AR variant, all parts are interchangeable.

Nice ELCAN Specter 4x scope though.


BTW, notice the digital camo a bit faded look like a shade of ACU?

This may apply to ground forces where 'bayonet strength' is still applicable, but Navy and Air Forces depend more on equipment and less on personnel. Number of personnel doesn't equate with capability. A single modern fighter plane may require up to 50 people working in various capacities for it to fly and operate correctly.

So you can't really say exactly how many people are needed in Navy or Air Force, it all depends on what equipment is being used.

What happened to weapon slings?

Also I'm not a big fan of excessive light machine gun use. They do boost a squad's volume of fire, but they're not that destructive on a target. Some armies use up to 2-3 LMGs in a 10 man squad. I imagine they must burn through a ton of ammo in a firefight. No wonder soldiers complain they are overloaded.

British Army to recruit 200 Commonwealth soldiers annually to make up shortfall of UK-born recruits



UK Defence Minister Penny Mordaunt has made the announcement saying the Defence ministry has waived the residency requirements to allow 200 Commonwealth citizens to fill roles in regular forces every year.They will fill the gap in troops with specialist skills, such as engineering.

The u-turn comes as staggering statistics published yesterday revealed there had been a drop in the regular armed forces of 3,680 troops since April last year.
In a written statement today, Miss Mordaunt said there was a 'long tradition' of soldiers from Commonwealth nations serving in the British military.
She said: 'We continue to value their service which provides an important contribution in defending the UK at home and abroad.

'The current Commonwealth recruitment rules which require five years UK residency have therefore been reviewed, and the residency requirements will be waived to allow for 200 Commonwealth citizens per annum to be recruited to fill a limited number of roles in the Regular Armed Forces which require specialist skills.'

She said the decision had been made in consultation with the Home Office and would be subjected to regular review.

Not the missile itself, wire guidance is very secure unlike radio or laser riding missiles. You jam the IR camera of the launcher guidance unit instead or rather you dazzle it. Usual method is to turn on a powerful IR dazzler light during combat and all the ATGM gunner sees is a big red blot filling his sights. This is how Shtora works.


Shtora system IR dazzler glows red when active

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