Philippines To Get Five Aircraft from Japan Amid South China Sea Tensions
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“We are also leasing from Japan five TC-90 training aircraft to assist our navy in patrolling our territories, particularly in the West Philippine Sea,” he said according to Reuters, using the Philippine term for the South China Sea.
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Aquino did not offer specifics, such as when exactly the planes would arrive or how much they would cost. The cash-strapped Philippines had initially wanted the planes for free, but The Diplomat understands that the TC-90 aircraft, which constitute Japanese defense equipment, will likely be transferred in accordance with the Three Principles of Transfer on Defense Equipment and Technology approved by Tokyo in April 2014 governing arms exports
Russia is bringing back the world’s largest surface combatant ship
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Aerial starboard view of the foredeck of Kirov shows four single 30mm Gatling guns (in purple) 2 pop-up (lowered) SA-N-4 SAM launchers (in red) 20 SS-N-19 cruise missile launchers (in green) 12 SA-N-6 SAM launchers (in blue) and one twin SS-N-14 antisubmarine warfare/surface-to-surface missile launcher (in yellow). These weapons systems will be updated by 2020, Russia claims.
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Russia intends to return the Admiral Nakhimov to their fleet in 2019, at which time the Pyotr Veliky will be docked to undergo the same upgrades.
These include missiles of the Kalibr variety that recently hit targets in Syria from the Caspian Sea, Zircon hypersonic missiles which are slated to be ready by 2020, as well as a nasalized version of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system
Essentially...to compensate for the lack of credible naval aviation of the Russian Navy. With the recent sinking of USS Reuben James with SM-6, Kirov class is no longer a special kind of cruiser. SM-6 can hit warships from 350km away at Mach 3.5.
Pekan, 10 Mac - Seorang pekerja DRB-HICOM Defence Tenchnologies Sdn Bhd (DEFTECH) maut setelah dihempap oleh kereta perisai di kilang terbabit dalam kejadian yang berlaku kira-kira 12 tengahhari tadi.
Laporan dari Harian Metro berkata, mangsa Abdul Razak Jabbar, 45, sedang mngajar seorang pelatih mengendalikan kenderaan terbabit ketika kejadian.
Bagaimanapun, kereta perisai yang dinaiki mereka itu dikatakan hilang kawalan sebelum terbalik menghempap mangsa.
Mangsa yang parah dikepala dan badan meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian manakal pelatih tersebut mengalami cedera ringan.
Mayat mangsa telah dihantar ke Hospital Pekan untuk tujuan bedah siasat sebelum dituntut oleh ahli keluarga mangsa.
Pekan, 10 Mac - Seorang pekerja DRB-HICOM Defence Tenchnologies Sdn Bhd (DEFTECH) maut setelah dihempap oleh kereta perisai di kilang terbabit dalam kejadian yang berlaku kira-kira 12 tengahhari tadi.
Laporan dari Harian Metro berkata, mangsa Abdul Razak Jabbar, 45, sedang mngajar seorang pelatih mengendalikan kenderaan terbabit ketika kejadian.
Bagaimanapun, kereta perisai yang dinaiki mereka itu dikatakan hilang kawalan sebelum terbalik menghempap mangsa.
Mangsa yang parah dikepala dan badan meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian manakal pelatih tersebut mengalami cedera ringan.
Mayat mangsa telah dihantar ke Hospital Pekan untuk tujuan bedah siasat sebelum dituntut oleh ahli keluarga mangsa.
Essentially...to compensate for the lack of credible naval aviation of the Russian Navy. With the recent sinking of USS Reuben James with SM-6, Kirov class is no longer a special kind of cruiser. SM-6 can hit warships from 350km away at Mach 3.5.
Pekan, 10 Mac - Seorang pekerja DRB-HICOM Defence Tenchnologies Sdn Bhd (DEFTECH) maut setelah dihempap oleh kereta perisai di kilang terbabit dalam kejadian yang berlaku kira-kira 12 tengahhari tadi.
Laporan dari Harian Metro berkata, mangsa Abdul Razak Jabbar, 45, sedang mngajar seorang pelatih mengendalikan kenderaan terbabit ketika kejadian.
Bagaimanapun, kereta perisai yang dinaiki mereka itu dikatakan hilang kawalan sebelum terbalik menghempap mangsa.
Mangsa yang parah dikepala dan badan meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian manakal pelatih tersebut mengalami cedera ringan.
Mayat mangsa telah dihantar ke Hospital Pekan untuk tujuan bedah siasat sebelum dituntut oleh ahli keluarga mangsa.
Vintage attack planes used in Vietnam are brought out of retirement to help US special forces defeat ISIS in Iraq
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Two vintage planes used in the Vietnam War have been brought out of retirement to help US special forces in Iraq.
A pair of OV-10 Broncos completed 120 combat missions over the Middle East between May and September last year, it has been revealed.
The turbo-prop jet is thought to have carried out 134 sorties over 82 days in May, acting as cover for the soldiers fighting ISIS terrorists on the ground.
Watch These CH-47 Chinooks Get Thrashed During Testing
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All this testing over the Chinook’s 50 year plus career has kept the type as one of the most useful, adaptable, reliable and hardy heavy lifting helicopters ever built. In fact, Chinook production is still in high gear and there is an upgrade path being put into place by the U.S. Army that should see the type serving for many decades to come. In fact, as it sits now Chinooks could still be thumping their way through the air past 2060, by which time the design will be 100 years old.
Russian cruisers were special because they have supersonic, long range anti ship missiles...but after SM-6 is fully deployed in USN. They are no longer special....just equal
Philippines To Get Five Aircraft from Japan Amid South China Sea Tensions
Just so you know, this is the type of airplane the Philippines are leasing.
The Philippines are literally flying a basic twin-engine trainer airplane with no equipment whatsoever and passing it off as an maritime patrol aircraft with the hopes that the Chinese Navy won't notice.
They originally wanted the planes for free, even though the plane costs only around $3 million USD brand new. Note that these are older JSDF airframes, purchased back in the 1980s and should be worth less than $1 million USD today.
Japan said bullshit and said friendly country or not there's no way they'll give them away for free.
Just so you know, this is the type of airplane the Philippines are leasing.
The Philippines are literally flying a basic twin-engine trainer airplane with no equipment whatsoever and passing it off as an maritime patrol aircraft with the hopes that the Chinese Navy won't notice.
They originally wanted the planes for free, even though the plane costs only around $3 million USD brand new. Note that these are older JSDF airframes, purchased back in the 1980s and should be worth less than $1 million USD today.
Japan said bullshit and said friendly country or not there's no way they'll give them away for free.
Japan is very uncooperative with country they are not familiar with. With pinoy most likely under US pressure
We already have good relationship with japan. They may pass us some free stuff but there away a trade deal especially japanase industry here. Nothing come free at the back at least.
The funny thing however is that why japan choose to cooperate with pinoy the first place. We are better partner anyway.
Just so you know, this is the type of airplane the Philippines are leasing.
The Philippines are literally flying a basic twin-engine trainer airplane with no equipment whatsoever and passing it off as an maritime patrol aircraft with the hopes that the Chinese Navy won't notice.
They originally wanted the planes for free, even though the plane costs only around $3 million USD brand new. Note that these are older JSDF airframes, purchased back in the 1980s and should be worth less than $1 million USD today.
Japan said bullshit and said friendly country or not there's no way they'll give them away for free.
use eyes to search n look around? more for rural transportation... lelz
Russian cruisers were special because they have supersonic, long range anti ship missiles...but after SM-6 is fully deployed in USN. They are no longer special....just equal
By the time fully operational
India and russia will already deploy brahmos 2 hypersonic missile
use eyes to search n look around? more for rural transportation... lelz
Visual all the way.
Malaysians have similar small twin-engine planes as maritime patrol (4 Beechcraft B200T MPA), but at least Malaysian ones have surface search radar and FLIR.
TUDM B200T MPA (note bulge for search radar on the underside of the fuselage)
I wished we had more of these though, 4 seems to be an awfully small number of MPA for a country that has as much coast line as Malaysia.
India and russia will already deploy brahmos 2 hypersonic missile
The problem with testing anti-ship missiles is that the target is always a empty stripped hull without the damage-control equipment and personnel of a running ship. With the target unable to mount any sort of defense (figuratively a sitting duck), the test will be more about testing the accuracy and evaluating the performance of the missile rather than its destructive effects. You're better off floating an 'x' in the middle of the ocean and shooting at that.
This will always skew the advantage of the test in favor of the missile, seeing its target is just a floating piece of hull with no means to avoid, fight back or even contain the damage. It's the equivalent of testing a tank's battle performance by shooting at a static farmhouse instead of another active, fighting tank. In the end you just get a blown up farmhouse and nothing more. You can never get the sort of data you need testing against something like that.
As far I don't think no country dare to test anti ship missiles on a fully functional ship and see how extensive the damage will be with damage-control protocols in place and working. So I take all of these tests with the usual grain of salt.
The problem with testing anti-ship missiles is that the target is always a empty stripped hull without the damage-control equipment and personnel of a running ship. With the target unable to mount any sort of defense (figuratively a sitting duck), the test will be more about testing the accuracy and evaluating the performance of the missile rather than its destructive effects. You're better off floating an 'x' in the middle of the ocean and shooting at that.
This will always skew the advantage of the test in favor of the missile, seeing its target is just a floating piece of hull with no means to avoid, fight back or even contain the damage. It's the equivalent of testing a tank's battle performance by shooting at a static farmhouse instead of another active, fighting tank. In the end you just get a blown up farmhouse and nothing more. You can never get the sort of data you need testing against something like that.
As far I don't think no country dare to test anti ship missiles on a fully functional ship and see how extensive the damage will be with damage-control protocols in place and working. So I take all of these tests with the usual grain of salt.
It depends on how you see it i guess.
Even shooting a sitting duct does give a ample indicative how effective the missile is.
Most of time, no one will show to public in actual testing. What i heard off before is that they will do a static jamming on a stationary missile and see it target aquasition is able to lock on target under heavy jamming.
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