Didnt see this posted here, but this made the news a few days ago in the US....

All the memes now roasting the other branches vs the coasties

Thai soldier killed in parachute jump ahead of wedding

A 29-year-old soldier was killed in a rice field in Lop Buri's Muang district when his parachute failed to open during a practice jump on Monday afternoon.

Army Lieutenant Watcharapong Chantarachat from a Prachuap Khiri Khan infantry unit had jumped from a military airplane at 1.30pm.

His body was found in Ban Tha Deu of tambon Nikhom Sang Tua-eng and was sent to Ananda Mahidol Hospital. Army officers at the scene declined to give comment, explaining a senior officer would later announce details about the incident.

The victim had been studying at the Erawan Military Camp's Special Warfare School and was reportedly going to get married next month, a source said.

https://www.asiaone.com/asia/thai-soldier-k...p-ahead-wedding

trace who's the rigger loo...

AFV Carmel

I think its a test bed prototype. The final design should look like this one.



https://m.facebook.com/michael.mass.733/pos...286290464956644
https://www.snafu-solomon.com/2019/08/idf-c...ehicle.html?m=1

Lol...that guy is from the police. You should compare to this guy TNI-AD Chief Andika Perkasa.

I think really buff pipul not that suited for military. Looks impressive but not that useful for military duties. Better wiry pipul with very high stamina.

For one thing you need a lot of food to maintain that muscle mass. A month's field exercise feeding on rations would shrink back a guy like that. 

that i know... i mean which part were the viets at? cause bahasa description dont specifically describe so

So, indonesia is pushing forward to gain control its airspace. Will malaysia follow?

Why?
Malaysia has not enough power?

staged attack to boost popularity?

Looks like SAF training focus on "attacking" rather then "defending. It is not wrong, SAF can not play defend strategy effectively in a small land.

expand, then hold, then annex.... hold the kucimiao piece of land for wat

5 most successful military operations in history

Napoleon at Jena. The Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu. Washington's withdrawal from Long Island. What makes a military operation so perfectly complete that you can almost hear Shang Tsung himself say "Flawless Victory" in the back of your mind? A few criteria for the title of "successful" come to mind.

For one, it can't be an overwhelming win between two countries, one being vastly superior to the other. Sure, the United States completely crushed Grenada but who gives a sh*t? So the odds need to be close to evenly matched. Secondly, a pyrrhic victory isn't exactly what anyone would call a "success." Yes, the British won at Bunker Hill, but they lost half of their men doing it. Also, if luck was critical to the outcome, that's not planning. The British at Dunkirk planned only to get a tenth of those men off the beaches. Finally, there needs to be some kind of military necessity, so Putin's "Little Green Men" don't count.

1. The Six-Day War: Israel vs. Everybody.

Okay, so maybe not everyone, just its aggressive Arab neighbors. In 1967, Israel was still very much the underdog in the Middle East. But living in a tough neighborhood means you need to grow a thicker skin and maybe learn how to fight dirty. Few events have gone into the creation of modern-day Israel as we know it like the Six-Day War. In the days before the war, as tensions mounted, Israel warned Egypt not to close off the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships. Egypt did it anyway. So Israel launched a massive air campaign, destroying the Egyptian Air Force on the ground. When Jordan and Syria entered the war, they got their asses handed to them by an IDF with unchallenged air supremacy.

As the name suggests, the war lasted all of six days, with Israel taking the West Bank from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt.

2. Operation August Storm: USSR vs. Imperial Japan

Sure it took almost the entirety of World War II to get Japan and Russia, virtual neighbors, to start fighting each other, but once they did, Stalin came through like the most clutch of clutch players. After curb-stomping the Nazi war machine, the Red Army was ready to get some vengeance for the Russo-Japanese War that embarrassed them so much before World War I. In order to bring a quick end to the Pacific War, the U.S. needed to ensure the Japanese forces outside of the home islands surrendered with the rest of Japan – and there were some 800,000 Japanese troops on the Chinese mainland, just waiting to kill Allied forces. What to do?

How about sending 1.5 million joint force Red Army troops fresh from wiping the floor with the Wehrmacht to encircle them along with 28,000 artillery pieces, 5,000 tanks, and 3,700 aircraft? That's what happened on Aug. 9, 1945, when the Soviets split the Japanese Army in two and dismantled it over a period of days. By Aug. 22, the deed was done, and World War II was over.

3. The Iliad: Horsing Around

I know I'm going way back into antiquity with this one, but it must have been great if people are still warning each other about Greeks bearing gifts. The level of deception, planning, and discipline it must have taken an ancient army to pull this off is incredible. After constructing the infamous Trojan Horse, the Greeks had to move their ships out of the horizon to make the Trojans believe they'd actually fled from their invasion. Then the Greeks inside the horse had to remain completely silent and cool for as long as it took for the Trojans to pull them into the city and for night to fall. The rest of the Greek Army had to land all over again, regroup, and be completely silent as thousands of them approached a sleeping city.

4. Desert Storm: Iraq vs. Everybody

How Iraq came to invade tiny Kuwait is pretty easy to figure out. A miscommunication between Saddam Hussein and U.S. ambassador April Glaspie left the Iraqi dictator believing the United States gave him the go-ahead to invade his neighbor. Boy was he wrong. In a logistical miracle that would make Eisenhower proud, in just a few weeks, the United States and its coalition partners somehow moved all the manpower and materiel necessary to defend Saudi Arabia while liberating Kuwait and trouncing the Iraqi Army while taking minimal losses.

Like the biblical story of the flood, the U.S. flooded Iraq with smart bombs for 40 days and 40 nights. After taking a pounding that might as well have been branded by Brazzers, the Iraqi Army withdrew in a ground war that lasted about 100 hours.

5. Operation Overlord: D-Day

Everyone knew that an invasion of Western Europe was coming, especially the Nazis. But Hitler's problem was how to prepare for it. What's so amazing about the planning for Overlord wasn't just the sheer logistical mastery required – Ike had to think of everything from bullets to food, along with the temporary harbors to move that equipment onto the beach, not to mention planning for a supply line when he didn't know how long it would be from one day to the next. What is so marvelous about D-Day is all the preparation and planning that also went into fooling the Nazis about where the invasion would hit.

Operation Quicksilver, the plan to build the Ghost Army of inflatable tanks and other gear, all commanded by legendary General George S. Patton. The plan to deceive the Nazis using a corpse thrown from an airplane with "secret plans" on his person, called Operation Mincemeat. It all came together so that on June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious landing to date, along with the largest airborne operation to date could combine with resistance movements and secret intelligence operations to free Europe from the evil grasp of an insane dictator and save an entire race of people.

from business insider

August Storm shouldn't count since it was the nukes that led to Japan's capitulation

The Iliad is on a lower level than Hikayat Hang Tuah in terms of historicity
Your definition is as bad as the article. A military operation is designed to achieve its stated objectives, no more. Nobody's talking about winning a war here - unless of course the objective of the operation is to win the war.

As far as military operations go, the 6 Day War was one of the most overwhelmingly successful in history, in some ways surpassing the 300 Spartans' stand (since, yknow, they actually won).

japan new assault rifle. Whether they will completely replace the howa type 89 or only for ninja unit I dunno

Loitering?
What exactly happened until it come to this?