How come overt carry of weapon?

Interestingly, the guard on the right is using a Surefire 60-round extended capacity magazine on his HK-416. 

YANGON, March 8 (Bernama) -- A Myanmar military plane, which was moving from Tounggoo air base to Nay Pyi Taw to prepare for group training flight, had crashed at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport, an official report confirmed Tuesday.

The aircraft ran out of the runway when landing due to technical failure Monday noon, the report said, according to China's Xinhua news agency.

A drag parachute, that controls the speed, was broken, making the plane run out of the runway and hitting some three lamp-poles to stop.

There were no casualties, but some wheels, fuel tank and the front part of the plane were destroyied, the report added.

what's this guy carrying anyways? seems to long to be M4A1 or HK416 or he's just a very small guy ? 

How come overt carry of weapon?

what's this guy carrying anyways? seems to long to be M4A1 or HK416 or he's just a very small guy ? 

How come overt carry of weapon?

I've always wondered why some fighter planes always deploys parachutes during landing?



I get it in if in war situation, you sometimes have to use shorter field runways than what is needed for the plane and to slow down as fast as possible to land there you use the parachute. It is a good system to have in some adverse war/forward base situations.

But why still use this system in peacetime where you always have all the runway you need to land? Kesian all the parachute packers, each time fighter land have to pack new parachute.

I've always wondered why some fighter planes always deploys parachutes during landing?



I get it in if in war situation, you sometimes have to use shorter field runways than what is needed for the plane and to slow down as fast as possible to land there you use the parachute. It is a good system to have in some adverse war/forward base situations.

But why still use this system in peacetime where you always have all the runway you need to land? Kesian all the parachute packers, each time fighter land have to pack new parachute.

Islamic State militants have planned attacks in Malaysia including a plot to kidnap three of the country's top officials last year, a report said Tuesday, a week after Prime Minister Najib Razak vowed an unrelenting anti-terrorism fight

"On Jan. 30, 2015, a total of 13 people with ties to Daesh [Islamic State group] had planned to kidnap the leaders, including the prime minister, home minister and defense minister," Zahid, who is also the home minister, said.

The Islamic State group also planned to attack places of worship, as well as entertainment outlets in Malaysia

And last year, a Malaysian bomb expert called Marwan, who was on the list of terrorists wanted by the United States, was killed by troops

However, an official Army contract document identifies the plane as an MC-12W Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System — a.k.a., EMARSS — based at Hunter Army Air Field in Georgia as of July 2015.

It’s not clear when the ground combat branch took charge of N6351V. The Air Force was clearly the original owner. Starting in 2009, the flying branch bought a fleet of more than 40 MC-12W spy planes to help meet ever-increasing demands for intelligence over battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It called the Beechcrafts after their project code name, “Liberty.” As the U.S. presence in Afghanistan wound down, the Air Force decided to give away the Liberty planes. Beginning in October 2015, the Army took a batch of eight of the MC-12Ws in order to convert them to the EMARSS standard, adding some additional surveillance equipment.

Somewhere along the line, some of the MC-12Ws apparently also adopted civilian guises. Aviation enthusiast Joe Baugher’s detailed database of U.S. military aircraft serial numbers notes that the particular aircraft that wound up in pieces in northern Iraq adopted its nebulous private registration on Aug. 8, 2012.

By 2019, the Army expects to have four different types of EMARSS planes, all with various types of surveillance gear, according to one unclassified briefing. Unless the plane has received additional modifications, this particular MC-12 sports — at the very least — gear that can scoop up enemy radio chatter and powerful video cameras for scanning down below.

The ex-Air Force MC-12Ws will get new Army-specific computer systems and other equipment. The spy systems will remain largely unchanged for the original. When the conversions are finished, the service plans to rename these particular aircraft “MC-12S-2.”

Still, we don’t know what unit owns the aerial spook or what it was doing near Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region. Hunter is home to both the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

A spokesman at the public affairs office for Fort Stewart and Hunter told War Is Boring that the aircraft does not belong to the 224th. They offered no additional information about the plane or its assignment.

RMN To Receive First Littoral Combat Ships In 2019 - Hishammuddin

LUMUT, March 8 (Bernama) -- The efficiency of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) will be further increased when it received the first batch of its Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) in 2019, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein said.

He said with the presence of the locally made combat ships, which also the biggest in Malaysia, the RMN would increase the combat capability of its combatant ships to 10 from four previously.

"With the twofold increase in its capability, of course more operations can be carried out quickly and more effectively, and hence improve the efficiency of our team.

"The LCS have the capability to be fully operational for offshore and deep sea patrol for a period of 21 days without having to resupply," he said at the LCS1 Keel Laying ceremony at the RMN base here today.

LCS are built, integrated and tested at the Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) here.

Hishammuddin said the full construction of the combat ships at the BNS premises had also restored public confidence in the skills and capabilities of local companies.

He said the LCS would be stationed at several vital areas, including in the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) areas.

The defence minister also gave assurance that the government would not compromise in the aspects of national security and defence despite the global economic uncertainty.

In another development, Hishammuddin said two apartment blocks for military personnel and their families at the RMN base here would be upgraded involving an allocation of RM22.5 million.

"The upgrading work is expected to begin in May and completed by year's end," he said, adding that the government would also build 300 houses at Bandar Baru Segari here, which will only be sold to members of Armed Forces Veterans Association at a price of RM100,000 each.

-- BERNAMA

Because got permit. Everyone can do the same if you have the money and you can convince the Police that you really need such a measure. This one is Sultan Kelantan bodyguard. But still can't challenge Johor bodyguard.

I've always wondered why some fighter planes always deploys parachutes during landing?



I get it in if in war situation, you sometimes have to use shorter field runways than what is needed for the plane and to slow down as fast as possible to land there you use the parachute. It is a good system to have in some adverse war/forward base situations.

But why still use this system in peacetime where you always have all the runway you need to land? Kesian all the parachute packers, each time fighter land have to pack new parachute.