I said 'most'.

AFAIK Brunei, Indonesian traffic police are unarmed.

Considering both India and Pakistan are both nuclear-armed countries with the potential to make South Asia uninhabitable for the next 10,000 years, I'm pretty surprised this don't get that much news.

Meanwhile the world gets its panties in a wad everytime NK launches a missile (which barely works).

Most people don't know that the Kashmir conflict is actually a 3-way conflict. Not only India and Pakistan are contesting control of it, China is also in control of the easternmost part of the province, Aksai Chin.



Thus for all parties involved, the entire Kashmir region is actually occupied by 3 different countries. The Pakistan-occupied region of Kashmir in the Northwest, The Indian-occupied region of Jammu and Kashmir in the South and the Chinese-occupied region of Aksai Chin in the East.

While Pakistan and China have recognized each other's area of control via the 1963 Trans-Karakoram pact, India still insists that the entire area rightfully belongs to India. However, Sino-Indian dispute regarding the region is not as heated, due to fact that the Chinese are not claiming the entire Kashmir region, unlike Pakistan.

Which units are involved?

Airbus C295 MSA stops by Subang Air Base as part of its unofficial 'world tour'


Military officials and members of the media gets a close-up view of the Airbus C295

Top officers from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), police and Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) were given a preview of the Airbus Defence and Space C295 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft today.

They had a brief tour of the aircraft at the Subang air base and were taken on a short demostration flight to show off the aircraft's surveillance capabilities.

The aircraft, which is based on a developed version of the CN235 military transport aircraft, a number of which are operated by the RMAF, is here on a "world tour" which will see it visit several countries with huge maritime interests.

It flew from Spain, where it was built, stopping in Oman for refuelling before making its first tour stops in Vietnam and Thailand before heading here.

Tomorrow it heads to the Philippines, then Japan and South Korea before continuing its tour in the Americas, with stops in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The aircraft then heads to Brazil where it will begin service in the air force there as a search and rescue aircraft.

Airbus Defence and Space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance market development head Fernando Ciria said the company had taken the opportunity of going on the world tour as it was delivering the aircraft to Brazil.

Perhaps, but both ground and air units should have had some attempt at identifying positions of friendly forces though.

This is Agosta sub, never used in service by Malaysia. Why are u showing this along with the above headline? What are u angling?

Like this 1 round jammed, have to throw away/discard the entire magazine, including all unused rounds. Regarding spare mags, I just don't see NK soldiers hauling more than 2 of these.

At least small-capacity mags, if forced to throw/remove away still have some more spare mags. Damage 1 mag still have 5-6 more mags ready to use and u will lose only 30 rounds at most.

Firearms firm develops a folding .22LR pistol the size of a deck of cards





A firearms manufacturer has designed a folding handgun that can deliver a deadly shot, despite being able to fit in your wallet. The tiny shooter, which can hold five .22 rounds, is the same dimensions as a stack of credit cards.

The Lifecard.22LR, marketed as 'the last gun you'll leave behind', weighs just seven ounces (198g), less than a Big Mac.

The company behind the gun, Trailblazer Firearms, is said to have been working on the concept for the LifeCard for seven years. The North Carolina firm say the small pistol boasts a steel barrel, bolt and trigger and extra ammo storage for four extra rounds. The pistol is a break-open single shot type, where the user manually opens the breech, reload the ammunition and cock the firing pin for each shot.

It folds up into a 3.375 inch (8.6 cm) by 2.215 inch (5.6 cm) card that is half an inch (1.27 cm) thick.

It is going on sale throughout the US for $399, apart from California and Massachusetts, through various distributors, including Ellett Brothers and Jerry’s Sport Center.

The first deliveries are expected in mid August.

Dunno what kind of excuse is this.

I don't even know how they justified the high maintenance cost as an excuse. The DHC Caribou is a fairly common transport plane in the RMAF at the time and basic gunship modifications rarely extend beyond bolting some miniguns onto the cargo area and installing a side-facing targeting device for the pilot to aim by.

Heck even the earliest Vietnam-era AC-47 gunships had, literally, just a bullseye painted onto the pilot's side window for targeting.

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A bit more technical and complicated (also probably costlier) I'm afraid, although a turret does have the advantage that it can swivel and fire in any direction. By comparison, bolting on a bunch of machineguns onto the cargo area to fire sideways should be much simpler.

Also a turret may limit the size of the gun you want to put in it. A good sized cargo area gives much more space for guns and ammo, at the cost of fixed fire.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Aug 16 2017, 05:17 PM

Part of the job of a gunship is to provide psychological warfare against one's enemies. If you look at it objectively, 3 miniguns doesn't have that much firepower compared with the usual air force ordnance bombs and rockets can bear, but seeing a non-stop hail of tracers raining from the sky towards them instills a lot of awe and terror on the enemy, besides inflicting the destruction.

What does 'medium tank' refers to nowadays anyway?

Malaysia signs State Partnership Program (SPP) with the Washington State National Guard


Tan Sri Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor and Maj Gen Brat Daugherty signing the SSP agreement

Malaysia has elected to join the State Partnership Program (SPP) with the Washington State National Guard (WANG), USA.

Citing the Public Affairs Division of the Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) report, the signing ceremony of the SPP agreement was completed by Chief of Armed Forces, Tan Sri Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor with General Advisory, Washington National Guard, Maj Gen Brat Daugherty at Wisma Perwira ATM this morning.

"By joining the SPP, Malaysia has become the second ASEAN State besides Thailand which has officially participated in the program in 2002." ATM said in a statement today.

The State Partnership program is regulated by the Pentagon-based National Guard Bureau and has successfully established links between the United States and countries around the world for the last 20 years.

Malaysia's participation in this program will spur a deeper and deeper bond of confidence between the two countries as well as profits through the sharing of expertise and experience from both sides.

Through SPP, the National Guard and the ATM do not just carry out military cooperation activities to support the nation's defense goals but also involve social development programs. Since its inception, the Washington National Guard has conducted over 100 expert exchanges including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), emergency management, aviation opportunities and medical response and treatment that benefits the United States and the countries involved.

As a first step, ATM and the WANG have implemented a series of joint exercises through the Exercise WITHIN Warrior on Aug 6-18 at Mentakab, Pahang and Kluang, Johor.

Well, it is essentially a turretless Merkava MBT with a troop space where its fighting position should be. We know how big those Merkavas are.

True, but it still is weird at the return of the roles of different types of tanks when the MBT is supposed to have taken the role 'universal tank': A complete combination of powerful engines, better suspension systems and lightweight composite armour allowed it to have the firepower of a super-heavy tank, the armor protection of a heavy tank, and the mobility of a light tank all in a package with the weight of a medium tank.

Nowadays wanna reintroduce a specific tank as being 'medium'.

'Mercenary King' Erik Prince pitches private military solution to the Afghanistan problem to President Trump


Erik Prince and Steve Bannon are huge proponents of a 'private military solution' to America's Afghanistan problem

Erik Prince was one of the most controversial players in George W. Bush’s handling of the Iraq War. Now he’s reemerging as a key part of the Trump administration’s internal debates over the flagging war in Afghanistan.

It’s a familiar role for Prince, the former head of the infamous private security firm Blackwater. According to the New York Times, White House advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner asked Prince and Steven Feinberg, the financier behind DynCorp International, to come up with proposals for sending private contractors into Afghanistan instead of US troops.

The request came while the Pentagon works on a strategic review about US involvement in the country that is expected to end with a decision to send no more than 3,900 troops there. There are currently 9,800 troops in Afghanistan taking part in what is now the longest war in US history, and bringing in private contractors could be appealing because it would reduce the chance of US troops getting killed.

The war in Afghanistan is not going well. The Taliban, the militant group that once controlled the country, now has control over 40 percent of territory and 8.4 million Afghans, about a third of the country’s population. It’s no surprise, then, that the administration would look for different thinking about how to turn the tide there, but Defense Secretary James Mattis appears to have rejected Prince and Feinberg’s proposals.

In an interview, military contracting expert Sean McFate said Prince also has big ambitions for his own role in shaping the future of Afghanistan.

It also matters that Prince effectively wants to be in charge of Afghanistan. In a May 31 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he made the case for a “MacArthur model” in Afghanistan, alluding to how US Gen. Douglas MacArthur governed Japan for a spell after World War II. Prince argued someone should be put in charge of overseeing Afghanistan, including the “private solutions” that are deployed there.

He was clearly advocating that he should assume that role. “He has a MacArthur-like vision for himself. Prince really wants to be the king of Afghanistan,” McFate noted.

This is last week story, unfortunately. With Bannon out, the generals are insiting for a traditonal Iraq-style 'surge' as the solution for Afghanistan.

Funnily enough, word has it that the very thing that made President Trump favor this approach is General H.R McMaster showing him photos of 1970s Afghani women wearing miniskirts and declaring they'd be restoring 'western values' to Afghanistan.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Aug 23 2017, 04:04 PM

By now any bodies on MH370 surely dissolved into the sea already.