It says NATO report, but it also says RT.com.
Russia Today reporting on the success of Russia today is hardly an achievement
Unless we hear the BBC or at the very least CCTV talk about it the same light, take it with a bucket of salt

cuz the kelantan royal family got "very interesting story"

A ro-ro type ship will be much better use as a logistics support ship between west-east Malaysia. Doesn't really need a good port with heavy duty equipment to unload heavy vehicles, any dock will do. Vehicles just drive away off the ramp.

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.

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.

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

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.

So? apa titik Daily Wail? B52 also Vietnam War era what... and as has been pointed out, fighting ISIS with OV-10s and even A-10s is nothing like flying in a modern AA/AD zone.

Kirov reporting! My god, what year is it anyway?! 2016 or 1976?!

Still a very strong refutal to that 'consultant' who said USN can't hit anything over 70 miles... Some abilities kept quiet only, and besides Tomahawk ASM and LRASM coming soon. And with SM-6 an Arleigh Burke could launch saturation attacks like crazy, the weakness of the Russisn type supersonic missiles is that they're so big there's only so many shots they can carry.

msia got SPH no?

eh.. beli? i thought free?

nope Free under EDA, pay for upgrade

sure its a6? cuz only the us operates the a6 "paladin" standard, not sure if they want others to have it, though a5+ standard is ady ok enough

better go for ruag kawest standard, longer barrel longer range
msia have been a good customer for ruag, maybe its a possibility

Meanwhile Russia is pulling out of Syria

Guess the money dries up. It shows that no countries on earth can maintain sustained war effort (even a limited warfare such as in Syria) outside their own soil other than US.
M109A6 is already a capable platform. The main reason why US army went to the A7 variant is because of chassis commonality with Bradley. If anything, I'd rather if we get more 155mm towed howitzer and replace Oto melaras with new 105mm howitzer.

South Korean KH-179 155mm howitzer seems to be a great option. It's a lot cheaper M777(less than 1 million USD compared to M777's >6 million USD) and unlike M777, it even has 52 caliber variant

Is MEADS missile system suite to our Amry Air defense ？ can locate in sepangar base