Beijing says Japan targeted its planes with 'decoy flares'



BEIJING • China has slammed Tokyo for targeting its military aircraft with "decoy flares" over a waterway near Japan, calling the actions "dangerous and unprofessional".

Two Japanese F-15s fired the projectiles as the Chinese planes passed through the Miyako Strait between Japan's Miyako and Okinawa Islands, the Defence Ministry said in a statement late on Saturday.

The incident took place on Saturday morning as the Chinese planes carried out "routine far seas training", the statement said.

The Chinese side added that its aircraft were in international airspace when the encounter occurred.



The Chinese jets were at that time taking part in long-range exercises over waterways near Taiwan.

"The actions of the Japanese fighters were dangerous and unprofessional and smashed the freedoms of navigation and overflight provided by international law," it said.

When contacted by AFP, neither the Japanese Defence Ministry nor the Prime Minister's Office could confirm the incident.

Taiwan's Defence Ministry said in a statement that China's drills lasted for about four hours and involved more than 10 aircraft, including four electronic surveillance planes.

Beijing, which has in recent years become more assertive in the western Pacific and South China Sea, has carried out similar exercises in the area since September.

Saturday's flights by Chinese jets were the first such flights since a telephone call between Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen and US President-elect Donald Trump irked China.

China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and has never renounced the use of force to take back what it deems a wayward province. Mr Trump's call with Ms Tsai on Dec 2 was the first between a US president-elect or president and a Taiwan leader since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition to China from Taiwan in 1979.

China lodged a diplomatic protest over the call and blamed Taiwan for what it called a "petty" move.

Separately, the official Xinhua news agency reported that China Coast Guard vessels conducted a routine patrol in the waters of the disputed Diaoyu Islands yesterday.

Japan and China are at loggerheads over a longstanding territorial row in the East China Sea. That dispute relates to uninhabited islets controlled by Japan known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.

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U.S. Army to begin Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle testing



WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is set to begin testing its first Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle as it continues its M113 replacement program.

The branch expects its first delivery from BAE Systems on Dec. 15. The new vehicle will roll out from the company's plant in York, Penn. BAE Systems has been contracted to provide at least 29 of the next-generation infantry vehicles. Once delivered, the units will undergo 52 months of engineering and manufacturing.

The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, or AMPV is part of the U.S. Army's effort to replace its Vietnam War-era M113 family of armored vehicles. Designed to operate alongside M1 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley fighting vehicles, the AMPV will feature improved protection, mobility and interoperability.

"At the end of the day, a combat vehicle is about a box," program director Maj. Gen. David G. Bassett said in a press release. "[Inside, are the latest] mobility system, lethality system, communications system and some other things. If you can take all those and put them on an existing vehicle, then maybe you don't have to build a whole new vehicle from scratch, along with the ris associated with that kind of development."

The Army also plans to issue an "analysis of alternatives." The report is expected in early 2017.

"We're not willing to go through a lengthy bottom-up design process. We're willing to give you time on your own to get a design ready to compete and then we'll evaluate that fairly rapidly in the engineering, manufacturing, development phase, not unlike what the Marine Corps did," Bassett added.

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The world’s largest armies from antiquity to the present



Mapmaking graphic artist Martin Vargic’s has made an amazing graphic tracking the size of the world’s largest armies at different points in time.

The graphic gives an understanding of the just how mobilized the human race was during World War II — and shows how the size of the wold’s largest armies has shrunk over time as interstate warfare becomes less common and technology surpasses sheer manpower in military importance.

It also gives us a chance to compare the size of some of the largest armies at different points in history with one another: the US had about as many troops in 1950, for instance, as China’s Ming Dynasty had in 1400.

One loaded choice Vargic made is splitting the world between East and West. The graphic doesn’t depict the world’s single biggest army at any given time, but the biggest armies in two halves of a divided and sometimes antagonistic world.

In his research, Vargic drew from Encyclopedia Britannica, British think tank IISS, and Wikipedia. The first project listed on his website is a humorous map showing the Internet’s biggest traffic drivers as countries drawn to scale.

Another project of his shows what would be left of the world should sea levels rise by 250 to 300 feet, which the Slovakian artist said is realistic should the polar ice caps melt completely.

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thats what i thought also

might be useful for suppressing fire support

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British tv had already released it.

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Indonesian police arrest three more terror suspects, including second woman planning suicide bombing



Jakarta - Indonesian police have arrested three more suspects - including a second woman being prepared as a suicide-bomber - who are linked to the foiled terror attack on the Presidential Palace over last weekend in Jakarta.

"As of today, seven people have been named suspects, including (another) alleged bomb-maker, who was arrested in Ngawi, East Java," said National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar, who was speaking to The Jakarta Post in Bandung, the capital of West Java province, on Monday (Dec. 12).



The latest arrests come hot on the heels of consecutive raids by the Detachment 88 (Densus 88) counter-terrorism unit, across West and Central Java on Saturday, as the police thwarted a suicide bombing by a 27-year-old woman who allegedly planned to strike in the capital last Sunday morning.

A total of four people, including a man who made the 3kg "rice cooker" bomb and the woman who was to carry out the attack during Sunday's changing of guard ceremony at Istana Merdeka, were nabbed by Densus 88 on Saturday.

Inspector General Boy said those arrested in the follow-up operations were a second woman from Solo, Central Java, being prepared for a suicide-bombing mission and a second male bomb-maker.

He also confirmed that the seven suspects are part of a new cell based in Solo and put together by Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant who is in the Middle East fighting alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

"This terror cell had direct contact with Bahrun, they operated in several cities (and) they had planned a terror attack, in which Bekasi was just a transit area before they moved to their main target area (in) Jakarta," he added.

Bekasi is a city in West Java, where the first woman suspect with the rice-cooker bomb was arrested. She was not identified by the police but sources had named her as Dian Yuli Novi, from Cirebon, West Java.

The arrest of the second woman supports an earlier theory of the police that Bahrun has been setting up smaller militant cells in Indonesia, tasked with suicide bombings, as well as recruiting jihadists, including women, to mount attacks.

Dian was arrested on Saturday in a rented room at the lodging house located in Bintara Jaya, Bekasi, while the two men who delivered the bomb to her for the attack on the palace, were nabbed 10 miniutes earlier in Kalimalang, in East Jakarta. The maker of the rice-cooker bomb was detained in Karanganyar, Central Java, later in the day.

Investigations into the case are still ongoing, said Inspector General Boy, while Densus 88 officers were still collecting evidence from the home of one of the suspects in Sukoharjo, Central Java.

Sukoharjo police chief Ruminio Ardano told Antara state news media that 42 bottles of chemicals, a laptop, some books, and a rice cooker, were seized from a lodging house in the city.



The suspect who stayed in Sukoharjo was arrested in another house in Ngawi, where the police found more than 1kg of triaceton triperoxide (TATP). The same substance was also used to make the rice-cooker bomb seized in Bekasi.

TATP is found in fertilisers but could be easily turned into high explosives when mixed with other chemicals. Traces of the chemical were found in bombs used during the July 2005 London bombings, as well as the attacks in Paris last year.

The police said on Monday that its bomb disposal unit will destroy the explosive substances on site in Ngawi as the chemicals are too unstable to be transported.

New Wireless Sights Show U.S. Soldiers Exactly Where Their Machine Gun Fire Will Hit

New tech will let soldiers shoot machine guns via helmet mounted displays.





The U.S. Army will begin production on a new generation of weapon sights designed to allow soldiers to engage the enemy while staying under cover. The Family of Weapon Sights—Crew Served (FWS-CS) program links troops to heavy weapons with wireless technology.

FWS-CS is a long-wave infrared night vision scope that is installed on a M2 .50 caliber machine gun, Mk. 19 grenade machine gun, or M240 machine gun. The scope is boresighted to the weapon, meaning aligned with the weapon's barrel. The Army has been installing night vision scopes on guns for a long time, so that part isn't a big deal.

The big deal is that the scope has a 12-micro thermal and high-definition day camera wirelessly linked to a helmet-mounted display worn by the gunner. The display projects onto the wearer's field of vision showing where the bullets—or grenades—will impact.

The result is that soldiers can acquire and engage targets much more quickly. Instead of looking down the sights of the gun and adjusting, they can get a good grip on the weapon, use the reticle to zero in on the enemy, and open fire. The sight also has a zoom capability, which will aid in identifying a target at long ranges.

Projectiles such as bullets and grenades gradually lose velocity at longer ranges, as gravity inevitably takes over. At 1,200 yards, for example, a .50 caliber bullet drops 86 inches due to gravity. At shorter ranges—say, 500 yards—the difference in elevation between the barrel of the gun and the sight means the bullets will strike about too 86 inches too high. You can see where the problem lies. Both distances are greater than the height of the average person, so it's entirely possible to miss your target if you're not careful.

FWS-CS, on the other hand, uses a laser rangefinder to instantly calculate the distance to the target and whether or not to adjust the shooter's aim up or down. Thanks to the infrared sight, it is equally accurate in day or night conditions.

Yet another advantage: the wireless aspect means the soldier doesn't have to position himself directly behind the gun to fire. After all, if the gun can shoot at the enemy, the enemy can shoot at the gun—and the shooter behind it. It is entirely possible that, so long as he or she has a good grip on the weapon, the shooter can actually duck down behind cover or inside an armored vehicle and pull the trigger, relying on the helmet mounted display to aim.

FWS-CS was scheduled to be in the Engineering and Manufacturing Phase between January and March of this year, and should enter the Production and Deployment Phase—where it actually reaches the troops—very soon.

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