Russian engineers start work in demining operations in Aleppo

The Russian Defense ministry has released photos showing Russian engineers starting demining and explosive disposal operations in Aleppo.


Russian engineering troops deploying out from their base in Aleppo Airport


Russian engineering troops move through the devastated city on top of their armored vehicles


A Russian engineer deploys a remote-controlled demining robot


Russian demining robot clearing mines


The Russian demining robot destroys a buried mine


A Russian engineer arranging improvised explosive devices for demolition


An unexploded munition cache is destroyed

they have to come up with innovation. else these yards will die. literally hundreds of shipyards can be found in Batam alone. and offshore jobs are hard to come by nowadays. it's the survival of the fittest i guess

errr whut? stockholm syndrome case?



This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Jan 4 2017, 12:32 PM

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/11...sian-star-team/

This post has been edited by azriel: Jan 4 2017, 02:43 PM

that shoulder patch though
CEKENIT!!

No more ACU?

Read more: http://www.armyrecognition.com/january_201...a_10301176.html

good progress, getting VT-4

VT-4 is Type 99 or Type 96A?

originally from Type 90 mk II
then develop into MBT2000

Hahaha not like that la

Already stated that the material, most likely a training manual, has mentioned something that is insulting to the Indonesian national ideology, the Pancasila.

MBT2000 is VT-2
VT-4 is MBT3000.
VT-4 add some tech from type-99A

This post has been edited by waja2000: Jan 5 2017, 09:28 AM

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/w...f05e84a8898430b

aus got spies also

australian indon?

Australia denies trying to 'recruit' Indonesian soldiers





SYDNEY: Australia on Thursday (Jan 5) rejected claims it tried to "recruit" Indonesia's best soldiers as it worked to mend relations with Jakarta after military ties were suspended.

The two neighbours revealed Wednesday military cooperation had been put on ice last month after teaching materials deemed offensive to Jakarta were found at an Australian army base.

Cooperation including joint exercises and education and exchange programmes were halted after a visiting Indonesian officer raised concerns about the materials.

Authorities did not say what caused offence but the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said it related to posters of West Papua, an eastern Indonesian province where a low-level insurgency has been simmering for decades.



The ABC also broadcast footage Thursday of Indonesia's military chief General Gatot Nurmantyo giving a lecture in November, voicing fears Canberra was trying to recruit soldiers sent to Australia for training.

"Every time there is a training programme -- like recently -- the best five or 10 students would be sent to Australia. That happened before I was chief so I let that happen," he said in translated remarks, according to the broadcaster.

"Once I became chief commander of the national forces, it did not happen again. They will certainly be recruited. They will certainly be recruited."

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne denied Canberra had targeted Indonesian soldiers to be potential agents.

"No, that is not the case and it is something which we would not countenance of course," she said.

Payne added to the ABC that an investigation into the teaching materials that sparked the bilateral row was almost complete and Canberra took the concerns seriously.

"We are working closely with our counterparts both at the military and at the political level to rectify any concerns, to address any concerns and to resume the relationship in its entirety as soon as possible," she said.



Indonesian newspaper Kompas said the row erupted after a visiting special forces instructor found teaching materials he deemed disrespectful towards his country's armed forces, as well as materials he thought insulted Indonesia's founding philosophy of "Pancasila".

The ABC reported that the instructor had complained about training posters of West Papua displayed at the Australian Special Forces base in the western city of Perth last November.

Papua's independence movement enjoys support among activists abroad, including in Australia. Indonesia keeps tight control over the area and is sensitive about any perceived attempts by foreign governments or NGOs to intervene.



It is the latest falling out between the key allies and neighbours, whose relationship has been beset in recent years by disputes over Jakarta's execution of Australian drug smugglers and Canberra's hardline policy of turning migrant boats back to Indonesia.

Payne said the row had not impacted Indonesia's cooperation on Australia's policy on boat people or their joint work tackling extremists linked to the so-called Islamic State group.

- AFP/rw

Nice pic of US Army AH-64E Apache Guardian & Indonesian Army Aviation Mi-35P Hind helicopters flying together. Credit to ways.shiva.



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Australia expresses regret for offending Indonesia's military



SYDNEY: Australia expressed regret on Thursday and promised a thorough investigation of "insulting" teaching material found at a west Australian military base that led to Indonesia suspending defence ties between the often uneasy Asia-Pacific neighbours.

Indonesia confirmed on Wednesday it had suspended military cooperation with Australia in December, a decision that was initially said to have been taken independently by the military.

However, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Thursday he had given his permission for the suspension of ties and that his defence minister and military chief had been asked to investigate.

Such military ties cover a range of activities from counterterrorism cooperation to border protection.

Jakarta and Canberra have had a rocky military relationship in recent years, and Australia stopped joint training exercises with Indonesia's Kopassus special forces after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999, as the territory prepared for independence.



Ties were resumed when cooperation on counterterrorism became imperative after the 2002 bombing of two nightclubs on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday an investigation into the offensive materials that were found at Campbell Barracks in the west Australian city of Perth would be concluded "imminently".

"We have indicated our regret that this occurred and that offence was taken. I think that's appropriate when a significant counterpart raises their concerns with you," Payne told reporters in Sydney.

Australia would present the findings of the report to Indonesia's government and military, Payne said.

Payne refused to reveal the exact nature of the offending material, although Indonesia media have reported that a senior Indonesian military officer training in Australia took offence at a poster questioning Indonesian sovereignty over the western half of the island of Papua.

Media have also reported that the same officer also found documents that ridiculed the founding ideology of Indonesia's National Armed Forces.

Papua, where there is a long-simmering separatist movement, is a politically sensitive issue in Indonesia.



"We of course ... recognise Indonesia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and that is our firm and stated position," Payne said.

She said the offending material had been removed and that all training documents would be "culturally appropriate".

Indonesia most recently suspended military ties with Australia in 2013 over revelations that Australian spies had tapped the mobile telephone of then president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Indonesian and Australian officials stressed that the bilateral relationship had not stalled, unlike in 2013.

"I think our relations with Australia remain in a good condition. The problem has to be clarified first at the operational level so the situation will not heat up," Widodo told reporters in Jakarta.

Australia needs Indonesia's help to enforce its controversial immigration policy that includes turning back boats carrying would-be asylum seekers. Payne said there was "no indication" of any change".

(Reporting by Colin Packham and Tom Westbrook; Additional reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe and Kanupriya Kapoor in JAKARTA; Editing by Paul Tait)

- Reuters

West Papua is better off with Indonesia....Comparing West Papua and PNG is like heaven and earth. Just go to the outskirt of Port Moresby, you will be robbed, raped and killed.

Significant infrastructure projects are undergoing in West Papua, soon will be enough to silence those insurgents..