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UK MoD under fire, former Admiral claims new Type 45 Destroyers are as noisy as a 'box of spanners'



Retired Rear Admiral Chris Parry claims our £1 billion pound Type 45 destroyers can even be detected from 100 miles away by Putin's deadly new hunter killer subs.

It highlights growing fears defence chiefs have wrongly concentrated too much investment on the war against terror whilst ignoring the resurgence of Cold War hostilities.

Former Type 42 destroyer commander Parry claimed the MoD had ignored the threat from enemy submarines whilst investing in anti-aircraft and missile defence systems. “Noise suppression has been probably the biggest dirty secret since the end of the Cold War that people have been cheerfully ignoring.”

Parry said the ships were "noisy as hell", adding: “During the Cold War . . .the ships I was in were the equivalent of a whisper.

“These ships now are the equivalent of someone shouting at somebody.”



The Army's newly acquired Ajax IFVs are also accused of being a bungled purchase, with it revealed that the armored vehicles cannot fit into the RAF's A400M transport aircraft as they are and its side armor needs to be dismantled in order for the vehicles to fit the transports.

However, the MoD hit back, saying that they do not need the Type 45 warships to be stealthy as the new ships are designed for air defence and not for battling enemy submarines.

And sources said that the Ajax is specially designed so that it can be refitted at short notice for different missions, making it a versatile battle vehicle.

wonder how warships sounds like on submarine's sonar...really loud?

it can fit alright but the armor kits and all the stuff that arent bolted on must be detached and carried on a different plane.. thats the problem

No future paradrops of Ajax IFVs then, I'm afraid.

way2 before lge boarded the kd trz in december 2011 the current agong that time tuanku mizan ady boarded and dived with the kd tar on march that year


Semasa pelayaran dan penyelaman bersama KD TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN, baginda telah berkenan menyaksikan demonstrasi melawan kebakaran serta demonstrasi water shot. Selain itu, baginda turut merasai pengalaman ke Maximum Operating Depth di mana KD TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN telah menyelam ke kedalaman yang mustahil dilakukan mana-mana kapal selam di dunia jika tidak mempunyai krew yang berpengalaman serta kapal selam di tahap pengoperasian yang tinggi. Sebagai bukti dan pengesahan ini, Panglima Tentera Laut telah mempersembahkan Sijil Penyelaman dan Lencana Kehormat Kepakaran Kapal Selam TLDM kepada Seri Paduka Baginda Tuanku yang juga selaku Laksamana Armada TLDM.
http://syarkghost.blogspot.my/2011/03/tuan...i-menyelam.html


This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Feb 7 2017, 09:40 AM

interesting that they opened the personnel door on both side to act as air brakes to achieve lower airdrop speed

Like u said la..not official ma...wr want the official one..heheh

No, no, no. Those are open to allow the airborne mechanized personnel to jump with the BMD. The 3-man crew is already inside.

eerrr wtf the crew is ady inside the vehicle? crazy

That's why russian airborne are very feared, they have very high organic armor (BMD IFVs) and firepower (Nona 29S SP guns-mortars) from the moment their chutes reach the ground. Meanwhile western airborne troop are mostly all-infantry battalions that happen to be air-droppable and have to wait for transport planes to fly in their heavier equipment later.

A pretty innovative way to remove stranded whales I guess.

The Indonesian Army to field test in Indonesia four units Pandur II 8x8 IFV in July this year. The four Pandur II 8x8 consists of 2 units with 30mm RCWS and 2 units 105mm FSV.





http://www.indomiliter.com/juli-2017-dua-v...a-di-indonesia/

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China shows off ballistic missile in drill



BEIJING • A Chinese ballistic missile capable of striking US and Japanese bases in Asia has made its latest appearance in a drill held during the Chinese New Year holiday, media reports said.

In a video posted last week on the Chinese Defence Ministry's website, the medium-range DF-16 missiles were shown being deployed as part of the Rocket Force missile brigade's exercise, reported the Associated Press.

The video shows them being transported in deep forest aboard their 10-wheeled mobile launch vehicles.

Two types of DF-16 were used in the drill: the bullet-shaped one that is considered the original DF-16, and a new variant, which features a manoeuvrable warhead and several extra fins, said China Daily.

The DF-16 fills a particular role in extending China's reach over waters it seeks to control, within what it calls the "first island chain", said the Associated Press.



First displayed at a Beijing military parade in 2015, the missile is believed to have a range of 1,000km, putting it within striking distance of Okinawa, home to several United States military installations, as well as other Japanese islands, Taiwan and the Philippines.

The DF-16, which made its debut public appearance in September 2015, is said by experts to pose a challenge to foreign military installations along the "first island chain", China's term for the series of islands that stretch from Japan in the north, to Taiwan and the Philippines in the south.

China Daily said the DF-16 was developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, based on the DF-11 short-range ballistic missile, and can carry a warhead of at least 500kg.

The missile has a strike accuracy as good as that of a cruise missile, or within as little as 5m of the target, the paper said, citing Mr Shi Hong, executive editor of military journal Shipborne Weapons.

It is also able to manoeuvre in its final stage to strike slow-moving targets and evade anti-missile defences, such as the US Patriot system deployed by Taiwan.

The drill came days after China's reported test of a new variant of its Dongfeng-5 long-range missile, capable of carrying a payload of 10 individual warheads.

The test of the DF-5C missile was carried out last month using 10 multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, reported the Washington Free Beacon on Jan 31.



The missile was fired from the Taiyuan Space Launch Centre in central China and flew to a desert in western China, said the news website.

The test is significant, it added, because it indicates that the secretive Chinese military is boosting its nuclear arsenal.

An unidentified officer from the Defence Ministry's Information Bureau reached by Shenzhen TV last Saturday would neither confirm nor deny the DF-5C test, but said that such tests are not aimed at any foreign nation or specific target.

Today I Learned: The WW2-era Kubelwagen was a militarized Volkswagen Beetle



In January 1938 high-ranking Third Reich army officials approached inventor Ferdinand Porsche about designing an inexpensive, light-weight military transport vehicle, that could be operated reliably both on- and off-road, in even the most extreme conditions.

Porsche began work on the project immediately basing it on his own successful Beetle design, having a prototype of the vehicle ready within the month, but realized during development that it would not be enough to reinforce the Beetle's chassis to handle the stresses that military use would place on it.

In order to guarantee adequate off-road performance of a two-wheel-drive vehicle with a 1,000 cc FMCV 1 engine, it would have to be lightweight. In fact, the army had stipulated a laden weight of 950 kg (2,090 lb), including four fully-equipped troops, which meant that the vehicle itself should not weigh more than 550 kg (1,210 lb). Porsche therefore sub-contracted Trutz, an experienced military coachbuilder, to help out with the body design.

The full production of the Kubelwagen started when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. From then on the Kubelwagen went on to successfully fulfill various duties such as an officer staff car, command & communications vehicle, reconnaissance, light artillery-towing and light transport. It was reported to have a smooth drive and was an enjoyable & comfortable vehicle to drive, thanks to it all-wheel suspension and excellent transmission system. As the body was not a load-bearing part of the structure of the vehicle, it could easily be modified to special purposes. Apart from that, the air-cooled engine proved highly tolerant of hot and cold climates, and less vulnerable to bullets, due to the absence of a radiator.

When Volkswagen production ceased at the end of the war, 50,435 Kübelwagen vehicles had been produced, and the vehicle had proven itself to be surprisingly useful, reliable, and durable. the Kubelwagen went wherever the Wehrmacht went, from the freezing temperatures of Norway and the Eastern Front to the hot, blistering deserts of North Africa.

USS Enterprise Decommissioned



The worlds first nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was decommissioned on February 3, 2017, after 55 years in service to the United States Navy.

Huh? Google for official SG Mindef publications la, if any

lemme give u an analogy to how expensive it is to carry out refit of subs.
i'm working for a small harbour tug company. normally, our 30m, 3000 hp - 4000 hp tugs will go to dock for refit, overhaul and deep maintenance every 5 years. lucky that it's a tug with no long propeller shaft - thus can do docking every 5 years.
for vessels with long propeller shaft, they MUST carry out docking every 2.5 years MAX - take out propeller, tail shaft, overhaul main engines, generators bla bla bla.
on my part, my budget can easily go between RM2 mil to RM2.5 mil per vessel every 5 years. our spare parts are commercially available off the shelf items. our tugs are single hull - no pressure hull whatsoever. subs has at 2 hulls, outer and pressure hull. 6 layers of paint that can last for 60 months, no anechoic coating - i don't know how many anechoic coats does a sub have.
to carry out major overhaul on a main engine + spares costs my company easily north of RM150k, and 1 have 2 engines. damn!!
now, bring that to a sub...
outer hull need to remove anechoic coating, reapply new one. lucky if no steel renewal works. pressure hull need to be inspected inch by inch. my tugs doesn't need that.
steel need to degausse, navigation instrument needs to remove, calibrate, renew if necessary, put back in the sub. engines need to overhaul - damn u mirrlees blackstone! engine mounts need to change, pipings need to change. @LTZ, u all use #40 or #80 for sea water pipes?
combat information system need to upgrade - not COTS items.
apa lagi...?
kira la sendiri all the costs. then u know...

I know rite? Some people probably think buying military assets is like buying Red Alert 2 units kot? Sekali dapat guna sampai kong or destroyed in battle.

Actually military vehicles very maintenance-heavy, due to them usually operating full power in hard terrain or hostile environments. Car go short distances on very good roads, so not manitenance-intensive to operate. Meanwhile a military vehicle usually goes off-roads for very long distances. For example for every hour an Abrams tank is operated, 3 hours are spent on its maintenance and repair.

Imagine is cars need that kind of care. Scary.

they don't have the least idea how expensive military stuff are, except of course green tip m855.
kapal x refit go condemn, kapal refit condemn y so expensive.
kapal x belayar, condemn y kapal tied up alongside, kapal belayar kondem y belayar so much save la a bit running hours for actual stuff, save a bit bajet.