Confirmed: India’s Next Aircraft Carrier Will Be Nuclear

Indian naval planners have anonymously revealed important details about India’s second indigenous aircraft carrier.





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China Parades Its Newest Tanks and Armored Vehicles

China put its ground vehicles through their paces for the home crowd, as well as potential customers.





Popular mechanics

somebody say not msia's problem cause got caught in pinoyland..

hmm... if got 18 lms then i think ok.. ingat lcs.. .lelz

army standard still not all got vest? haih.. the senior officers need some diet..

Finally the mystery solved. i thought we will lose our hydrographic survey and mine sweeping capability.

Pole land stronk!!

Today I Learned: Up to 1/3 of all Native Americans of military age in the USA volunteered for service during World War 2


A group of Native American Marines pose for a photo on Bouganville in 1943

By 1940, the population of native Americans in the USA was around 350,000. After war broke out in 7 December 1942, the Navajo and other tribes were so eager to go to war that they stood for hours in bad weather to sign their draft cards, while others carried their own rifles so they would be ready for battle when they joined up. Unwilling to wait for their draft numbers, one-fourth of the Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico enlisted. Nearly all the able-bodied Chippewas at the Grand Portage Reservation enlisted. In a story that has been attributed to many other tribes as well, Blackfeet Indians mocked the need for a conscription bill. "Since when," their members cried, "has it been necessary for Blackfeet to draw lots to fight?"

Even the clannish Pueblo tribe, whose members exhibited a historical suspicion of the white world, contributed 213 men, 10 percent of their population of 2,205, to the armed forces. Wisconsin Chippewas at the Lac Oreilles Reservation contributed 100 men from a population of 1,700. Nearly all the able-bodied Chippewas at the Grand Portage Reservation enlisted. Blackfeet Indians enlisted in droves. Navajo Indians responded by sending 3,600 into military service; 300 lost their lives. Many volunteered from the Fort Peck Sioux-Assinibois Reservation in Montana, the descendants of the Indians that defeated Custer. The Iroquois took it as an insult to be called up under compulsion. They passed their own draft act and sent their young braves into National Guard units.

By mid-1942, the annual enlistment for Native Americans was approximately 7,500. By the beginning of 1945, the yearly average had jumped to 22,000. Selective Service reported in 1942 that 99% of all Native Americans who were eligible for the draft (healthy males between the ages of 21 and 44) had registered for the draft.

As many as 25,000 Native Americans actively fought in World War II: 21,767 in the Army, 1,910 in the Navy, 874 in the Marines (Ira Hayes, one of the Marines who lifted the US flag on Imo Jima was a Pima native), 121 in the Coast Guard, and several hundred Native American women as nurses. These figures represent over one-third of able-bodied Native American men aged 18–50, and even included as high as seventy percent of the population of some tribes. Unlike African Americans, Native Americans did not serve in segregated units and served alongside white Americans.

Whether it was due to innate skill as warriors or merely as a reflection of the stereotype of the Native American warrior spirit perpetuated by American popular culture, Native American men were generally regarded highly for their military service in World War II. Maj. Lee Gilstrop of Oklahoma, who trained 2 ,000 Native Americans at his post, said, "The Indian is the best damn soldier in the Army." Natives proved to be experts in bayonet fighting, marksmanship, scouting, and patrolling. Native Americans endured thirst and lack of food better than the average soldier. They also had an acute sense of perception and excellent endurance, along with superior physical coordination.

nice

can the Av8s go over those kelapa sawit bangkais? even the Adnans/MIFVs have hard going man

the chap with the swagger stick, general siapa tu?

where are the RPGs? x nmpk pung

Today I Learned: In 2002, Germany sold all 23 of its Mig-29 'Fulcrum' fighters to Poland for just 1 Euro



Polish air forces have got a real bargain - they have purchased 23 Soviet-made fighters MiG-29 Fulcrum for just one euro. A new Fulcrum costs around $25m USD and is considered to be one of the best modern fighters. Warsaw got them, as Polish Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski put it, for "a notorious euro".

Under the current law, Poland was obliged to pay for the planes, albeit a symbolic price.

In 2001, Germany proposed that Poland should get the planes along with 120 second-hand Leopard tanks as a goodwill gesture to help the Polish army meet Nato technical standards. Under the deal, Warsaw will get the fighters which were inherited from East Germany after unification.

sos

Poland Stronk!

No issue LMS as hydrographic survey ship as long right equipment install like Multibeam Sonar which can scan sea floor mapping in 2D imaging and profiling capabilities. just size of ship determinant how deep if survey, for SCS and our water, deep not more than 500meter small ship enough. if need scan 2000 meter or more than we need big survey ship can carry more bigger and power full sonar.

problem is they mention sabah, many people will think is our side problem.

Royal Australian Army visited the base of the Indonesian Army Kostrad 1st Cavalry Battalion in conjunction with Kartika Burra 2016 Exercise. Credit to Badak Ceta Cakti.

i think he departed or berth at sabah or visited its waters before that.. hence the mention

Panglima 4 Brigade

Certainly not in 2002!

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PT. Pindad & FNSS Joint Development Modern Medium Weight Tank.

Putin TV Hails the ‘Trump Administration’





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What? The price or the 'one of the best modern fighters' bit?

Explainer: What Will A Trump Presidency Look Like?





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