I am convinced the IAR is a scam run by HK on the USMC.

It is literally an overpriced HK416.

The M27 IAR has nothing that the latest locally-designed M16/M4 derivatives can't do. Also, abandoning firepower for accuracy is a pretty dumb move. Modern infantry tactics are based on fire and maneuver. They are assuming their enemies would stand still enough for accuracy to be relevant. Studies show that only around 10% of ammunition expended during a firefight actually kills an enemy, with up to 80% alone spent on suppressing fire.

Mark my words, the USMC grunt in the future will literally be outgunned by their enemies.


As General Patton said;

“Fire on Infested Areas: Owing to the pernicious traditions of our known distance rifle marksmanship, we are prone to hold our fire until we see targets. In battle, these are seldom visible. When any group of soldiers is under small-arms fire, it is evident that the enemy can see them; therefore, men should be able to see the enemy, but seldom are. When this situation arises, they must fire at the portions of the hostile terrain which probably conceal enemy small-arms weapons. I know for a fact that such procedure invariably produces an effect and generally stops hostile fire. Always remember that it is much better to waste ammunition than lives. It takes at least eighteen years to produce a soldier, and only a few months to produce ammunition.

In battle, casualties vary directly with the time you are exposed to effective fire. Your own fire reduces the effectiveness and volume of the enemy’s fire, while speed of attack shortens the time of exposure....

Infantry must move in order to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move. When physical targets are not available, the fire of all infantry weapons must search the area occupied by enemy. Use marching fire. It reduces the accuracy of his fire and increases our confidence. Shoot short. Ricochets make nastier sounds and wounds. To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Move forward out of fire....”

M240 is the GPMG (medium machine gun), M249 is the SAW (light machine gun). The SAW was never intended to be used as a suppressive fire machine gun in the first place, it was used to bosst the squad's level of fire.

So instead of a steady stream of bullets from a dedicated machine gun to suppress enemies, the USMC would only get short bursts of individual automatic IAR fire to suppress its enemies. Instead of the usual infantry doctrine of a single GPMG crew giving a base of fire and the rest of the squad free to maneuver, the USMC would need to dedicate a large part of the squad (who would otherwise be on the maneuver team) to suppressive fire duties only.

Mat Sabu flies high in the Su-30



Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu yesterday soared high in a Sukhoi Su-30 MKM jet.

Evidently excited, the minister shared on his Facebook page:“Penerbangan pesawat pejuang TUDM bersama dengan juruterbang pesawat Sukhoi Su30-MKM (M52-14), Lt Col Jasmi. Satu pengalaman baru hari ini. (Flying with pilot Lt Col Jasmi in RMAF fighter aircraft Sukhoi Su30-MKM pilot (M52-14). A new experience today.)”

According to the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s Facebook account, the trip was made during his official visit to Gong Kedak air base in Kelantan.

He was accompanied by Armed Forces chief General Tan Sri Zulkifli Zainal Abidin and RMAF deputy chief Lieutenant General Datuk Seri Ackbal Abdul Samad.



Also present was air base commander Brigadier General Datuk Suhaimi Hussain.

His post garnered various reactions from netizens including calls urging the government to improve the country’s air assets.

Zam Hassan said: “Hope that the Defence Minister will strengthen our air defence. Focus should be given to acquisition of maritime patrol aircraft that can for a well-coordinated defence system.

Faizal Sahpri said: “Hope Defence Ministry will add more jet fighter and weapons. Look at Sweden and Switzerland, although they are neutral, but they are well-equipped. Prevention is better than cure.”

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A better option is to overhaul the asset acquisition procedures.

Current system uses a lot middlemen, local affiliates and intermediaries, so we pay millions out on commissions and agency fees to these people on top of the assets price itself. Money which can better be used purchasing assets.

Aiya ini buku-buku cerita philosophy of warfare. You won't learn about small unit tactics by reading Sun Tzu.

Books like this one is much better:

To be fair, military tactics everywhere are, on paper, very generic but as far as I can tell, the best tactics are the simple ones which soldiers on the ground can follow without much confusion.

Indeed, much more important than than pure theoretical tactics are the discipline & bravery of soldiers to carry out their orders and the creativity & quick thinking needed by junior officers to come up with an alternative plan when the tactic devised earlier isn't working out in battle. Strict battle orders & timetables are usually inevitably hampered by military realities and by giving junior officers on the ground some flexibility in their orders as regarding to the objective is much better doctrine.

As von Moltke said: "No battle plan survives its first contact with the enemy".

That and a lot more reasons.

Anyway, one of the best examples of lower-level command autonomy was first successfully implemented by the post-napoleonic era Prussians following the philosophies of Scahrnhost, Clausewitz and von Moltke in the form of Auftragstaktik (literally Mission Tactics, or better translated as 'Tactics focused on accomplishing the task/mission').

Under the Auftragstaktik system the selection of combat formations, as well as their route and rate of advance, was based upon a unit's mission, the terrain and the enemy's disposition, something Napoleon was renowned for doing. Building a high level of trust, competency and understanding is crucial for the success of such a doctrine. The freedoms this might imply have challenged many armies' views of military discipline during the time, including the Prussian army's.

Auftragstaktik encourages commanders to exhibit initiative, flexibility and improvisation while in command. Auftragstaktik does not, of course, allow a commander to actually disobey orders, but it does allow (what may be seen as surprising by some) - and even demand - that he considers an order no longer binding if it wouldn't be given in the changed situation (according to his own judgment); only the intent of the higher commander must be maintained.

This demands, of course, that junior officers and ncos - rarely private ranks - both have the skill and also the self-confidence to treat the order accordingly. A sub-leader whose first fear is to be lectured by his superior, and hence cannot bring himself to do anything else with orders than execute them to the letter, is not capable of Auftragstaktik.

During the 1939 German campaign in Poland international observers found that "The emphasis which the Germans placed on the development of leadership and initiative in commanders during years of preparatory training brought its rewards in the Polish campaign. With confidence that these principles had been properly inculcated, all commanders, from the highest to the lowest echelons, felt free to carry out their missions or meet changes in situations with a minimum of interference by higher commanders." They recognized that "initiative, flexibility and mobility" were the essential aspects of German tactics.

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This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Jul 13 2018, 10:31 AM

This is so BS la.

If going by GDP percentage, Germany spends more on NATO defence than everybody else except US. Germany's 1.24% contribution is probably higher than UK's 2.10% considering its GDP is nearly 80% higher than UK.

Yet Germany kena marah also. Memang betul la kata NATO's own 1st sec gen: "NATO is created to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down".

IMO NATO should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union collapsed, and collapsing with it, the million-strong red army NATO was originally created to counter.

There is no way,shape or form today's Russia underwhelming armed forces is able to attack, much less invade any part of western Europe. Nowadays NATO has severely overreached its stated aim of protecting 'The North Atlantic region' from Soviet aggression by getting into ridiculous irrelevant conflicts in the Balkans , Libya and Afghanistan. It has since seems that NATO has morphed into the European extension of US foreign policy. If that is the case, isn't it appropriate that the US shoulder most of the costs?


This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Jul 13 2018, 10:53 AM

That's why it's so strange because the Federal Government allocate so much on the Bundeswehr (The federal defence budget for 2017 is €44.3 billion).

This can be considered a lot (in fact it's number 9 on the global list of defence budgets according to SIPRI), since the Bundeswehr is involved only in very limited fashion with overseas operations unlike UK & France and 90% of the Bundeswehr defence assets are sourced internally from German manufacturers.

Most say this is because the Bundeswehr spends a large percentage of the budget on the social welfare of its 200,000 serving members. How many armies do you know who have kindergartens & child daycare centers in barracks and have special field uniforms for pregnant servicewomen?



This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Jul 13 2018, 03:22 PM

330 anggota 10 Briged Para menjalankan latihan terjunan



Kampung Gajah: Penduduk kawasan Felcra Changkat Lada di sini, gempar apabila ratusan anggota tentera melakukan terjunan udara daripada enam pesawat yang melintasi ruang angkasa di sini, semalam.

Semua anggota tentera lengkap bersenjata dan membawa muatan antara 30 hingga 40 kilogram (kg) membuat terjunan itu pada jam 10.30 pagi. Anggota kemudian mendarat di kawasan selamat di kawasan sawah padi di Felcra berkenaan sebelum bergerak ke Ipoh menjadikan kawasan itu umpama medan perang.

Senario itu sebahagian latihan terjunan dan pengguguran udara membabitkan 330 anggota 10 Briged (Para) bersama Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat (USAF) dalam Eksesais Gerak Pantas Siri 24/2018.

Ia berkonsepkan atur gerak secara penerjunan paracut yang turut disertai Panglima 10 Briged (Para), Brigadier Jeneral Datuk Tengku Muhammad Fauzi Tengku Ibrahim.

Turut berkenan menyaksikan latihan bersejarah itu, Raja Muda Selangor, Tengku Amir Shah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah. Tahun lalu, baginda dianugerahkan Beret Merun dan Sayap Penerjunan Kehormat 10 Briged (Para).



Terdahulu, baginda tiba di padang Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Changkat Lada 3 di sini, dengan menaiki helikopter Augusta dari Pangkalan Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) Subang sebelum ke lokasi latihan menaiki kenderaan Tentera Darat (TD).

Turut menyaksikan latihan berkenaan, Panglima Medan Barat TD, Leftenan Jeneral Datuk Azizan Md Delin, Panglima 2 Divisyen, Mejar Jeneral Datuk Mohd Ramli Jaafar dan Panglima 2 Briged, Brigadier Jeneral Datuk Mohd Nizam Jaafar.

Sementara itu, Tengku Muhammad Fauzi berkata, ia latihan medan dwitahunan membabitkan anggota 10 Briged (Para) dan tahun ini latihan itu membabitkan lima pesawat TUDM dan sebuah pesawat US Pacific Air Force (PACAF).

Katanya, semua pesawat itu terbang pada paras ketinggian antara 243 hingga 365 meter sebelum anggota melakukan aksi penerjunan.

“Eksesais ini bertujuan menguji keupayaan tempur kumpulan Batalion Para bersama pasukan afiliasi yang membantu serta menilai aspek perancangan dan persiapan anggota di peringkat batalion serta briged.

“Latihan juga adalah kemuncak untuk menguji aksi terjunan setiap anggota 10 Briged (Para) selain turut menguji elemen taktikal dan kemahiran masing-masing,” katanya ketika ditemui di sini, semalam.

Here is the 2016 revised salary scheme for the ATM. Don't forget this is basic pay and allowances are not included, plus higher ranks will also have extra allowances on top of basic ones.

If someone for some reason stuck as a Lt Muda until pencen then can get to that level la.

Nowadays I can say ATM basic pay is pretty good. Even joining as private with SPM only can get starting basic pay of around RM 1500, not including allowances (which can get to around RM 800 alone, thats nearly RM 2300 right there).

Join with degree and skim kadet graduan, you can get starting pay of around RM 2500 depending on what degree, (engineering pays best at nearly RM 3000 not including allowances) and not to forget, the additional perk of getting hardened soldiers calling your sorry ass 'tuan!' all day long.

Granted, it's not that high considering, but its very different from the pay situation 10-15 years ago.

Considering that this is one of the PH Navy Gregorio del Pilar-class frigates (in truth old Hamilton-class US coast guard ships ) , which are probably the best ships the PH navy has currently, I doubt that.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Sep 1 2018, 02:00 PM

I think that is normal bilge water being pumped out. Even modern ship isnt 100% waterproof.

It does seem a tad overpowered as a scout vehicle. The capability to defend oneself is useful for a scout vehicle, but this EBRC looks like it has too much firepower.

I prefer reconnaisance vehicles & personnel to quietly and systematically scout the frontline for battlefield intelligence, rather than going out of the wire blustering loudly all of the time looking for a fight with the enemy. You have idiot grunts aplenty for that.

Small ambushes and snatch operations can still be done to gain intel though, as long as stealth is not too compromised. If you're potentially outgunned (being a recon unit, which is almost all the time), simply keep observing and do nothing. If you are watching the enemy correctly, you would know if they became aware of your presence and are looking for you. In that case, just report in and drive away. Quietly, of course.

I say leave the heavy fighting to someone else.