Any idea what kind of ship is it?

lol... mig29 havent event find replacement yet still got $$$ buy up to 40?

the su-35 is a threat no doubt but the f-15s are at least on par with them... taking into acct training, shouldnt be a prob

doubt will purchase any until it reaches a certain level of maturity..

The article only mentioned "looking to further expand a fleet of forty modern aircraft by 2020". Maybe that includes the RMAF MRCA & F-5 replacement plans.

It would go without saying that the beach and any immediate inland defenses in question would be under heavy air and naval attack even before the landings begin.

As the suppression attacks would no doubt be lifted before the actual landing wave lands, it is easier to embed and infiltrate the coastal area with small, scattered tank-hunter infantry teams on foot with light ATGMs rather than vehicle-mounted heavy ATGMs that would undoubtedly attract the attention of patrolling CAS airplanes supporting the landings.

As in Normandy in 1944, small teams of German tank-killer infantry armed with Panzerfaust grenade launchers did significantly much more damage to allied forces than Panzers who were mostly destroyed on their way to the area by patrolling allied CAS airplanes.

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

The us always thought was their air supremacy will supplement their lack of longer range air defence. Not to mention heavy reliance on aegis system on destroyer 

Russian know that their air force is weak in comparison to us. So they focus on air defence development more as all the s-series.

So now US is carrying fast track deveoplment on air defence system because it have become quite obselete in comparision to russian system.

Nike Hercules SAM. Has a 2kt nuclear warhead. Crazy.

some politician already sing US to open base in sabah 

Bernie? 

Well the f35 that supposed to replace the f18 have a lot of problem and delays.So no surprise there.😌😌

had the military dun give a fck abt military spec ship we already buy them ferry LPD from indon(or buy ckd from korea and assembled them ourself like gagah samudera)

I think rmn still looking at flat top lhd, so they might gonna hold on to that. prob with getting cheap/used LPD (or LST) as stopgsp is that rmn may gonna stuck with that ship for a long time bcos MoF won't approve the procurement of the real deal

prob is after the lcs programme, they still need to get plenty of things (new asw helo,kedah class rearmament, getting more sgpv, new subs? lol) so I'd imagine lpd/lhd is gonna be down there in term of priority number

su-35?

upgraded MKM would have been a better option

  kudus... hope nothing unwanted happen... will be very bad for the region
not even if get 24?

if according to the blue print should be MKM2 iinm
with AESA radar 

but like I said, old story!

let get over with the MMRCA first

indeed

Abu Sayyaf fighters is no ordinary militants..they're like other militants in South East Asia, jungle warfare experts..

even so..Pinoy Army must have been degraded so bad..to being slaughtered liddat.. 

they go in jeeps soft skin vehicle.. even for lahad datu we go in in armored vehicle

pinoy.. the southern island is basically a lawless state..

it is making full use with what you have to give an advantage...

these pinoys goes to battle with disadvantages... no uav, no air support, no armor... in for a slaughter

UPDATE: 18 Philippine troops killed in clash with Abu Sayyaf fighters

A military offensive against the Abu Sayyaf group linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has left 18 soldiers and five militants dead in the worst violence in the Philippines' troubled south this year.

Lieutenant-Colonel Benedicto Manquiquis, spokesman for the army's 1st Infantry Division, said fierce clashes began at 7.55am last Saturday after troops from the division's 4th Special Forces Battalion and 44th Infantry Battalion came across more than 100 Abu Sayyaf fighters in Tipo Tipo town in strife-torn Basilan island, 1,400km south of the capital, Manila.

The firefight lasted for about 10 hours, said Major Filemon Tan, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command.

Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Detoyato, head of the military's public information office, said it was a "close- quarter encounter, just 10m".

"It was a terrain that suited the militants but our troops fought valiantly," he said. 

Citing sources, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that an entire platoon "was wiped out" and four of the soldiers killed were beheaded.


Philippine military chief Hernando Iriberri, with Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin (left), pinning a medal on one of the wounded soldiers at a hospital in Zamboanga city on Mindanao island yesterday. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Maj Tan said one of the militants killed was Moroccan Mohammad Khattab, reportedly a bomb-making instructor and extremist preacher. Also reported killed was Ubaida Hapilon, said to be a son of Isnilon Hapilon, Basilan chieftain of the Abu Sayyaf.

Maj Tan said 53 soldiers were wounded. They were airlifted to hospitals in Zamboanga city on the main Mindanao island near Basilan.

At least 20 Abu Sayyaf fighters were injured, including a sub-group leader, Radzmil Jannatul, he said.

The soldiers had been hunting the Abu Sayyaf across Basilan and on nearby Jolo island for two weeks, hoping to free 18 foreigners being held by the group.

Among those being held are Canadians Robert Hall, 50, and John Ridsdel, 68, and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, 56, whom the Abu Sayyaf had threatened to behead if their demands for ransom were not met by last Friday.

There has been no word yet on the fate of these hostages.

The clashes came a day after retired Italian priest Rolando del Torchio - held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf for six months - was found aboard a ferry docked in Jolo. Some 130 million pesos (S$3.8 million) were reportedly paid for his release.

The Abu Sayyaf is a small but violent band of extremists known for extortions, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings.

It was formed by disgruntled Moro Islamic fighters in 1991, with Al-Qaeda funding.

The latest fighting in the Mindanao island group, home to many of the country's five million Muslims, comes as a peace deal that the government signed with the 12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group, remains stalled in Congress.

Support in Congress for the deal evaporated after a botched security forces raid on a militant stronghold in January last year left 44 elite commandos dead. 

"These clashes are largely a reflection of the dangerous power vacuum emanating from the deadlock in peace negotiations and how ISIS sympathisers are intent on establishing a strong foothold in the country," Mr Richard Javad Heydarian, an assistant professor of political science at De La Salle University, told Bloomberg.


Site of clash

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/1...sayyaf-fighters

well my point on previous post is..why don't we go for cheapest asset when we need it urgently. Yeah..it's good to have the most advanced asset in ATM inventory.. but do we have enough budgets?

Im just asking..hehe and back to silent reader.

because cheapest on initial cost but in long run might not be the case

MiG-29N   

Gripen Single engine
1- Safety issue like other people member mention.
2- power to weight ratio, for patrol is not issue, but for fighter combat, went single engine jet full loaded missile/bomb the fighter will overweight, power to weight ratio below 1:1, if not wrong about 1:0.8-0.9 ,  means lost flexibility & maneuvers to medium/heavy twin-engine fighter.
unless like F35 single engine with power more than twin-engine fighter。but f35 still suffer until now.
3. Grippen Ng not cheaper either, cost more than $100 million each。

[size=9]Air Force bosses to pit 40 year old A-10 and new $400bn F-35 jets against each other in 'war games' to see which really is the top.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...ed-replace.html