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Ready to strike! SAF Guardmens



Trained to land using specialised techniques, the Singapore Guards are elite infantry soldiers of the Singapore Armed Forces who are able to deploy rapidly in all sorts of terrains, such as the rugged Shoalwater Bay Training Area, in Queensland, Australia.

In this simulated battlefield, the Guardsmen operate together with the Republic of Singapore Air Force helicopters for Exercise Wallaby 2017. Flying in fast and low on an integrated strike mission, they leave the enemy little time to react.

Indonesia (TNI) is the overall winner of the 27th ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet (AARM) 2017 in Singapore and broke new AARM record. Credit to original uploader.



This post has been edited by azriel: Nov 23 2017, 09:34 PM

Missing Argentine submarine: 'Explosion' detected



RIP.

Captain reported battery problems just before losing contact

apparently ARA San Juan just came out of a battery refit in which they cut her apart in order to access the batteries

refer cases of USS Bonefish and USS Cochino.... very similar

basically, salt water leak > kena electrical system > electric fire > loss of power > game over

different, implosion due to crush depth..

RIP #los44


This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Nov 24 2017, 01:19 AM

They said the explosion was detected on Nov 15. Why did it took so long for the news to be released?

Argies said they were aware of it since earlier.

My guess is that it was partly requested by USN to keep it quiet, as it is an indicator of their capabilities. Only once a civilian source independently confirmed the sound did they admit that they know.

Its going to be shocking and upsetting for the families, but that's military for you. Even the published data for MH370's track is (so I heard) a little fudged so as not to give away the FPDA radar range.

EADS radar at Butterworth AFB you mean?

RIP. Condolences to the families.

Families of missing submarine crew have been told their loved ones are dead

Bizarre Cold War stories: The one time where Pepsi Co. was the 6th most powerful Naval force in the world



In 1972 Donald Kendall was president of Pepsi since 1963 and had been seeking for years to take Pepsi to the USSR. Kendall was a friend of Nixon (who was already president of the U.S.) and tried to play that card. He made use of his political influence to strike a trade agreement to take the drink to the Soviet Union.

In 1972 the deal was almost signed, but an important question came up: How was the Soviet Union going to pay Pepsi? The problem was that the USSR did not have access to foreign currency and the ruble could not be exchanged in the international market. The solution was to pay with vodka! The Soviet government had large amounts of vodka, since most of the brands of that drink were state-owned. So it was agreed that the USSR would pay with Stolichnaya vodka, a brand created in 1901 following the recipe designed by the famous Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleiev.

In 1989, the initial agreement between Pepsi and the USSR was about to expire and the negotiations to sign a new one began. At that time, Pepsi was a big thing there, they had more than 20 factories in the USSR that bottled the drink for distribution. The new trade agreement had a cost of about three billion dollars. It was clear that the Pepsi market share in the Soviet Union was far more profitable than the original vodka deal. The USSR still had difficulties in international markets to exchange rubles, so they had to find an alternative method of payment.

Again the Soviet Union found a novel if somewhat bizarre solution: In the 1980s they had plenty of military equipment inherited from the Cold War. The USSR offered to pay Pepsi with a fleet of obsolete naval ships. Bizarre as it seems, Pepsi accepted the deal because they knew that it was the only way to continue to sell Pepsi in the USSR and maintain their considerable market share there. The agreement included 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer, which were immediately sold to a Swedish company for scrap recycling. Those naval warships made Pepsi become, for a few days, the 6th largest Naval power in the world (on paper at least, as the ships were shipped straight to Sweden from the USSR).

The president of Pepsi, Donald Kendall, told the American National Security Adviser, General Colin Powell: "We are disarming the USSR faster than you".

Yeah. I don't remember what brand of radar.

Indian Air Force Trainer aircraft crashes in Telangana, woman pilot safe





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a very 90s apc driver cabin feature on a modern 8x8

agilis 8x8 apc

We are not going to war, why not give RM2b for cancer research instead



Opposition lawmaker Charles Santiago proposed today channeling RM2 billion out of RM3.9 billion from the Defence Ministry’s development budget to the Health Ministry for cancer research.

The DAP representative asserted that the health sector was in greater need of finances, due to increasing cancer rates in the country, compared to the military when there was no risk of an imminent war at the moment.

However, the Klang MP’s motion was rejected by Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia.

“To my knowledge we are not going into war anytime soon. Do you see any war happening soon? Are we going to war with Singapore?

“And yet the Parliament Speaker again rejected my motion to provide financial help to them by channelling RM2 billion to the Ministry of Health from the Ministry of Defence to set up a cancer stimulus package,” Charles told a news conference in Parliament after his motion was rejected.

He explained that the RM2 billion channelled to the cancer stimulus package could be broken down into the following areas to enhance existing programmes: RM1 billion for hospitals to buy cancer medicines, RM400 million to the national cancer fund, RM400 million for training new oncologists and RM200 million for additional cancer research and early detection.


Read more at http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia...LfDFP5AgJzLu.99

New Anti Material Weapon for the NZDF, Barrett M107A1 with suppressor.



This post has been edited by xtemujin: Nov 24 2017, 11:10 PM

regional cooperation on anti-piracy efforts must be strengthened

The cap should issued emergency resurface/ballast discharge....