Emirati pilot killed as plane crashes in Yemen





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http://www.janes.com/article/73703/indones...ement-programme

Indonesian Army Starstreak Missile System. Credit to Restu Tri G.



https://www.instagram.com/p/BYpf_FDAfj7/

That's quite a large radar system to be used with a SHORAD missile system.

Also I don't know what advantage do Starstreak submunitions has over the usual HE-Frag warheads. For one thing they have to directly hit the target to work. Seems like a bad trade-off.

APA JADINYA KALO INDONESIA DI PERANG?

Is the war on terror failing?



The topic of terrorism has been at the forefront of world politics for many years. Attacks on western soil dominate the news for weeks after they happen, and the Iraq and Syria wars against ISIL is regularly centrestage on our TV screens.

The subject was on the agenda at the recent BRICS conference in China, and will debated at the upcoming UN General Assembly. This week it's catapulted back into the spotlight for an obvious reason, the 16th anniversary of 9/11.

The September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 have largely defined U.S. foreign policy since, and affected lives throughout the world. Almost 3000 people were killed when hijackers flew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.

And the attacks triggered a series of events including new wars, new immigration policies, and new prejudices.

What will it take to defeat terror?

Bundeswehr to test deployment of MANTIS C-RAM system in Mali


MANTIS Skymaster control radar and its six automated gun turrets

The Bundeswehr will deploy a test deployment of the Rheinmetall MANTIS counter rocket artillery and mortar (C-RAM) system that will be deployed to automatically detect and shoot down incoming projectiles at its base in Mali. The spokesperson said the radars are likely to be deployed before the summer. The move is aimed to prevent mortar and rocket attacks by insurgents on the base.

The MANTIS is based on Rheinmetall's Skyshield air defence system, which is designed to suppress short-range threats that include aircraft, missiles, rockets, and mortar bombs by combining SIX unmanned Rheinmetall 35 mm chain guns with automated sensors and the Skymaster command-and-control system. It has been in service with the German Air Force since 2012 and was recently deployed to Afghanistan.

In a related development, The German military (Bundeswehr) also plans to improve force protection at its main base in Mali by erecting a dedicated surveillance tower, deploying air defence radars, and procuring aerostats, a Bundeswehr spokesperson told Jane's on 27 February.

The Bundeswehr is contributing 772 troops to the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the majority of which are deployed at Camp Castor near Gao airport.

"We are going to have a 30 m-high mast installed to accommodate different sensors, including day/night cameras that will allow our forces in Gao to have a much broader field of view and to observe the base's more distant surroundings," the spokesperson said.

Its the CONTROLMaster 200 radar part of the Thales ForceSHIELD Integrated Advanced Air Defence System.





Anyway Malaysia also orderd the same Thales ForceSHIELD System.

Thales announces order for ForceSHIELD Integrated Air Defence system and STARStreak missiles for Malaysian Armed Forces

IIRC Unlike Indonesia which is using the URO Vamtac ST5, for the Rapid Ranger Launcher platform Malaysia will be using the Weststar GK-M1.

This post has been edited by azriel: Sep 12 2017, 05:32 PM

Its the same video with different title.

US Navy Railgun Successfully Fires Multi-Shot Salvos

dat tracking shot of the suicide bomber truck is so surreal

The war on terror is essentially never-ending, because the terrorists' mission is never-ending: they wish to destroy the Western system of governance. Its a bit like asking "what will it take to defeat crime".

Swiss army plane goes missing





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ST Kinetics outlines Bronco 3 capability



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Shaun Connors, Norfolk, United Kingdom - IHS Jane's International Defence Review
25 January 2017

The latest production-ready example of STK's Bronco 3 features a five-door front section, early examples having just two doors. Source: Shaun Connors
ST Kinetics' (STK's) Bronco 3 is the logical evolution of the Bronco 2 (Warthog in British Army service) and factors in many lessons gained from more than 15 years of service of the Bronco 1 with Singapore's ground forces, as well as operational experience of the Warthog in Afghanistan, Dominic Phoon, head of business development with the company's Design and Manufacturing Group, told IHS Jane's.



Development of Bronco 3 commenced in 2010 and Phoon explained that based on its predecessors' survivability records a key design aim was to provide at least Warthog levels of protection, but at no more than Bronco 1's base design gross vehicle weight of 16 tonnes, and not Warthog's ultimate operational weight, which peaked at 21 tonnes. An amphibious capability comparable to that of the original Bronco 1 was also desired. These aims have been achieved with Bronco 3 attaining 5 km/h in the water, and tipping the scales at around 10.2 tonnes unladen.

Phoon disclosed that throughout its use in Afghanistan the UK's fleet of 115 Warthogs survived around 30 direct improvised explosive device strikes, with no crew fatalities, the relatively low strike rate part-attributable to the design's ability to traverse terrain inaccessible to other vehicles, wheeled or tracked.

Actual protection levels for Bronco 3 remain classified beyond basic hull protection of up to Level 4 ballistic. However, both modules have been redesigned and now feature blast deflecting V-shaped hulls suspended from a redesigned and stiffened chassis by four rubber isolators. Additional benefits of this isolator interface include the ability to swap the rear module in less than 30 minutes, and a reduction (when compared to Bronco 2) in noise, vibration, and harshness levels of 50%.

Individual crew seats are an in-house blast-attenuating design and are suspended from the cabin roof. Bronco 3 normally seats 12, the four front cabin seats located as close to the vehicle centreline as possible.

context?

nope, no context by sos

my guess this is something that gotta do with this?

Germany is quietly absorbing allied military units into the Bundeswehr


Czech Minister of Defence Martin Stropnicky, German Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen and the Romanian Minister of National Defence Gabriel Les signing the Framework Nations Concept agreement

Far from the headlines, Germany and two of its European allies, the Czech Republic and Romania, quietly took a radical step down a path toward something that looks like an EU army while avoiding the messy politics associated with it: They announced the integration of their armed forces.

In the next several months each country will integrate one brigade into the German armed forces: Romania’s 81st Mechanized Brigade will join the Bundeswehr’s Rapid Response Forces Division, while the Czech 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade, which has served in Afghanistan and Kosovo and is considered the Czech Army’s spearhead force, will become part of the Germans’ 10th Armored Division.

In doing so, they follow in the footsteps of two Dutch brigades, one of which has already joined the Bundeswehr’s Rapid Response Forces Division and another that has been integrated into the Bundeswehr’s 1st Armored Division. According to Carlo Masala, a professor of international politics at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, “The German government is showing that it’s willing to proceed with European military integration”

Other multinational concepts have been designed, but under the bland (and appropriately utilitarian) label of the Framework Nations Concept, Germany has been at work on something far more ambitious — the creation of what is essentially a Bundeswehr-led network of European miniarmies. “The initiative came out of the weakness of the Bundeswehr,” said Justyna Gotkowska, a Northern Europe security analyst at Poland’s Centre for Eastern Studies think tank.

“The Germans realized that the Bundeswehr needed to expand and fill gaps in its land forces … in order to gain political and military influence within NATO.” An assist from junior partners may be Germany’s best shot at bulking out its military quickly — and German-led miniarmies may be Europe’s most realistic option if it’s to get serious about joint security. “It’s an attempt to prevent joint European security from completely failing,” Masala said.

The Framework's idea is to share its resources with smaller countries in exchange for the use of their troops. For these smaller countries, the initiative is a way of getting Germany more involved in European security while sidestepping the tricky politics of Germany military expansion. They also get the added bonus of having elements of their armed forces be trained to a higher standard and be equipped with advanced German weapons without actually spending specifically towards it.

The Bundeswehr, in turn, already has a list of potential junior partners in mind, said Robin Allers, a German associate professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies who has seen the German military’s list. According to them, the Scandinavian countries — which already use a large amount of German-made equipment — would be the best candidates for the Bundeswehr’s next round of integration.



Die Anchluss continues?

Thales - Singapore Next Generation Unmanned Autonomous ISR/Strike Tricopter Unveiled

South Korea conducts drills testing advanced air-launched cruise missile



South Korea said on Wednesday it conducted its first live-fire drill for an advanced air-launched cruise missile it says will strengthen its pre-emptive strike capability against North Korea in the event of crisis.
South Korea's military said the Taurus missile fired from an F-15 fighter jet travelled through obstacles at low altitudes before hitting a target off the country's western coast.