sos bruh?

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 10 — Malaysian authorities will soon be able to cross into Philippine waters while in “hot pursuit” of militants that have been a bane in Southeast Asia in recent years, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced after meeting with the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte here today.

A fuller discussion to hammer out the legalities will take place later this month involving the defence ministers from both countries and also Indonesia, which faces a similar predicament.

“We can now go into Philippines waters during a hot pursuit and act on militants by chasing them but we must inform their maritime enforcement agency upon entering their waters,” he told a news conference after meeting Duterte.

A recording of the press conference was made available to Malay Mail Online.

Najib said the defence ministers’ meeting is scheduled for November 22.

“Duterte also expressed his concerns on eradicating kidnapping cases in the southern Philippines and Sabah, and hence the decision, because we cannot just stop [half way] from chasing the bad guys,” he said.

Today’s meeting is Duterte’s second time meeting Najib since taking office in June, but his two-day visit marks his first official trip to Malaysia.

Militants, namely from the Abu Sayyaf terror group, have been kidnapping Malaysians and tourists from Sabah’s east coast — just half an hour’s boat ride away from their southern Philippines hideout — for huge amount of ransoms and have even carried out beheadings.

In response to the growing terror threat, Malaysia set up the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom), but the abductions persist.

According to Najib, a total of 10 Malaysians have been abducted and released while five are still held captive.

Najib also said he discussed with Duterte the repatriation of some 7,000 Philippines immigrants in Sabah.

"We have agreed that these Philippines immigrants will be sent back to their home in stages," he said.

Apart from that, Najib said they also discussed on setting up of a Philippines regional office in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah to boost economic ties between both countries.

“We are happy that Clinton did not win. This is for sure. She’s the one who considered all these terrorist, Islamist, jihadist groups as moderate rebels,”

Donald Trump has echoed the regime’s claims saying, during a debate with Hillary Clinton in October, “I don’t like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS.”

The United Kingdom only publicly admitted to the existence of Exactor in 2014. By the time the BBC special aired, the Exactor had already been in combat for more than three years.

In April 2007, the Defense Ministry decided in April to buy 12 M-113 armored personnel carriers fitted with Israel’s Spike Non-Line of Sight missiles, or Spike-NLOS. To speed things up, British authorities leased two more M-113s directly from Israeli Defense Force stocks.

Despite the secrecy surrounding the British purchase, the weapons were not new or particularly controversial. Israel defense contractor Rafael started work on the first Spike missiles in the late 1970s to counter hordes of Egyptian and Syrian tanks.

Depending on the variant, Spike missiles can plunge down on the vulnerable top armor of a tank up five miles away. Spike-NLOS — standing for non-line of sight — can strike targets up to 26 kilometers away, more than three times the range of these earlier versions. The 150 pound missiles, which the Israelis call Tamuz, have an estimated cost of $100,000 each.

Rafael offers a variant of Spike-NLOS with fragmentation warhead ideal for blasting enemy troops.

In Iraq, British troops would have relied on the Watchkeeper 450 drone to find the mark.

This sort of control system means troops can adjust targets on the fly. A soldier can even abort the attack if civilians enter the target zone.

As a result, the missile teams can perform the same role as a precision airstrike, but much faster and cheaper. In a video from Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon, a Spike-NLOS missile soars over twenty kilometers overhead before dropping precisely through the window of a house.

“In the last five years, the Ministry of Defense has purchased the Exactor weapons system, comprising Exactor 2 palletized launchers and Exactor Mark 5 missiles, from a contractor based in Israel,” the ruling Conservative Party’s Lord John Astor explained. This was the first time a British government official had used missile’s name in public.

Of course, Astor declined to mention the United Kingdom had acquired 600 Mark 2 and Mark 4 versions in 2007. It later emerged that the delta-winged Mark 2 was difficult to control and was actually too fast to easily hit targets at shorter ranges, according to Think Defence.

The slower, straight-winged Mark 4 was both easier to handle and had an improved thermal camera to see in the dark. In 2010, the United Kingdom hired Rafael to produce a further improved Mark 5 missile.

On top of that, the United Kingdom ditched the M-113-based launchers, which were poorly air-conditioned and difficult to keep running. The carriers had little in common with other British Army armored vehicles to begin with.

The new Mark 5 weapons came with simpler, flatbed trailer launchers holding four missiles. The U.K. Defense Ministry dubbed the whole arrangement the Exactor 2.

In June 2016, British Army crews brought the missiles out for a training exercise with Royal Marines and Dutch Marines. In an article about the war game, the Royal Navy described Exactor as similar to the shorter range, shoulder-launched Javelin missile.

The recent launch is part of a three-phased naval construction program to build up the ROKN attack submarine force. South Korea currently operates a fleet of nine 1,200-ton Chang Bogo-class diesel-electric attack submarines – a variant of the German Type 209 boat. Under the first phase, the ROKN is planning to upgrade all nine Chang Bogo-class submarines with air-independent propulsion and flank-array sonars over the next few years.

The nine Son Won II-class vessels are part of the second phase of the ROKN’s so-called Korean Attack Submarine program. The third and final phase (and also the most ambitious part of the project) will be the construction of nine indigenously produced 3,000-ton diesel-electric attack submarines – designated KSS-III – equipped with air-independent propulsion and multiple vertical launch tubes from which Hyunmoo-3C cruise missiles with a range of up to 1,500 kilometers can be fired.

mirage i think..

yeaps... we should be worried

SINGAPORE -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's likelihood of increasing military and infrastructure spending could be positive for state-linked defense and commercial manufacturer Singapore Technologies Engineering, said the company's president and CEO Vincent Chong on Thursday.

"If there is an increase in defense spending, it would be a positive development for us in the U.S. But we have to watch whether it will come through," said Chong, emphasizing that there was still "uncertainty" over what Trump really stood for. Chong was speaking at a briefing of the company's financial results.

In his presidential election campaign, Trump promised a shift in U.S. national security policy which includes a dramatic jump in military spending. Trump's call for an increase in the number of soldiers, navy ships, nuclear and missile defenses could add up to as much as $1 trillion in military spending, according to some experts.

ST Engineering's business lines include supplying naval vessels, weapons, munitions and other military equipment to defense forces around the world. Military customers include those in Brazil, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the U.S. In the quarter ended in September, clients in the U.S. were the second-largest contributor to the company's topline after Asia, accounting for 25% of revenue.

Trump has also spoken on plans to boost infrastructure spending. This can also buoy ST Engineering's businesses, said the company, as it has a U.S.-based arm that provides specialty vehicles for construction sites. If the Trump administration increases infrastructure spending, "it is quite likely that [our] business will benefit," said Ravinder Singh, president of ST Kinetics.

ST Engineering said that net profit for the third quarter ended September dropped 42.5% on the year to 76.6 million Singapore dollars ($54.7 million), due to S$61.1 million in impairment and closure costs for Jiangsu Huatong Kinetics, a joint venture with a Chinese state-owned company.

There is a risk that Russia will manage to transform Belarus into a Cold War outpost in order to generate conventional and hybrid threats to NATO member states and Ukraine. The Kremlin may also destabilise the political and military situation in Belarus if it decides that Aliaksandr Lukashenka is crossing too many red lines.

NATO’s plan to deploy four multinational battalions on its Eastern flank in order to undermine the strategic stability of the region.

Russia has already taken “defensive” measures against a possible Western threat, and the Kremlin is trying to persuade Minsk to do the same.

The formation of the joint military organisation of the Union State (by 2018) and the conducting of joint large scale military drills such as 'West'/'Zapad' have helped Moscow undermine Belarus’s image as an open and reliable partner with an independent, predictable, and peaceful military policy.

Moscow has already established the first Guards tank army on the Belarusian direction and re-deployed the 20th Guards Army to the Ukrainian border to assist in the hybrid war conflict in Donbas.

The Kremlin also plans to form new motorised (mechanised) and tank divisions in the Western military district and one motorised (mechanised) division in the South military district. Moscow is also rearranging the 11th Army Corps in Kaliningrad, providing it with additional facilities to enforce two motorised (mechanised) brigades to division level.

One of these is stationed in Klintsy, Bryansk region, 40 km from the Belarusian border, and will be upgraded to a mechanised regiment. The second one is located in Yelnya, Smolensk region, 90 km from the Belarusian border, and will be reinforced to a mechanised division at the beginning of 2017.

According to the Global Militarization Index, Belarus remains among the ten most militarised countries in Europe, placing 12th out of a total of 152 countries, leaving Poland (68), Latvia (85), Lithuania (63), and Estonia (25) far behind. From this point of view, Minsk doesn’t have any reason to be concerned.

The fact that Russia has sent 'Iskanders'-- nuclear-capable missile systems -- to Kaliningrad, and deployed 'Kalibrs' -- capable long range missile warships and submarines -- to the Baltic Sea support the fear that Russia may use nuclear weapons in a hypothetical conflict with NATO.

Russian military analysts believe that the West will be able to separate Belarus and other Eastern Partnership countries from Russia and draw them into its sphere of influence by the end of this year. Such analysis is problematic, as the normalisation with the West has obvious limits. Moreover, Belarus is not planning to join the EU and NATO or even sign an Association agreement in the foreseeable future.

huh you're right... why got Mirage, French joined in?

I wonder how SG and MY will react

cannot do anything... suck thumb

I thot SAF is all powerful alredi still sked of TNI meh?