not that i give a damn about papua (I dont).but the diplomat is an indian newspaper

Technically it's the other way around. gendarmarie is basically army unit (or rather, unit drawn from the army), doing low level policing while pga is basically a paramilitary police but nowadays the roles pretty much overlap. PGA could be mobilized without pm signature and without asking the agong which is the commander in chief

on what?

just another day in indonesia

staged attack to boost popularity?

jeng jeng jeng...

prolly because
>the sk engineers simply out of depth
>it's a 4++ gen aircraft so no need for diverterless intake

meh polen did this kinda design way earlier

its nothing new. back during the colonial period north borneo constabulary (precursor to police in sabah) also used buffalo due to terrain and because they're too cheap to use horses . they were called the flying squad afaim

Even with the new 3 opv, i can guarantee only one will do patrol at one time, the second one is under maintenance and the third one is on standby. desway ideally we buy stuff like ship, boats or helo in 3s; 2 is a bit of stretch because no backup

jeng jeng jeng

???

They are all light fighters. Gripen is roughly the same size and carries similar payload to FA-50 while Tejas is actually the smallest of all. JF-17 is the "heaviest" of all the options but they are roughly the same size as F-16 and if you trace F-16 development, they started as LWF (lightweight fighter) programme. Even JF-17 was designed based on J-7/Mig-21.

I think pipu thought just because it's lca it's must be based off a trainer

Prolly Gripen NG. Sadly FA-50 potential is nerfed hard by lockmart. Had they approved the AESA radar on FA-50 it'll be close in capability to Gripen C/D

this is why that fella being a defence minister is just :x ... not only no relevant academic background (if there's any), meroyan tah hapa2 time kena soal kt parlimen, his history of undermining the military/LE summore :x:x:x... dah xde orang lain ke nk bg jawatan menhan?

btw Gripen is designed to be 1/3 of f-16 in term of maintenance/opex cost

Eh in the end of the day it's all about maintenance cost of platform. whether or not they are developed as a trainer or not (which gripen was in the beginning) is irrelevant. else jf-17 and tejas shouldn't even be in the list, which they shouldn't in the first place

Gripen C/D in current configuration is even more capable than FA-50. Gripen can carry much more mission and much more diverse armaments than FA-50. Gripen can do maritime strike, SEAD, BVR interception (+aew ofc) et cetera. Gripen C/D can launch AIM-120 or MICA or even meteor, anti ship missile and even cruise missile. what can FA-50, with equally outdated and inferior radar, do?

this is why i said FA-50 got nerfed hard. not only that lockmard blocked Raytheon offfer to install aesa radar on FA-50, rokaf oso dun feel the need to equip them to match gripen despite its potential of matching gripen becoz of kfx

israel radar cost extra. by default they came with apg-67 and there's no way we're getting elta radar

oso this is what gripen c carries

What is the thing that made them oudated? Because it's not aesa? kek our F/A-18 can do maritime strike and bvr without aesa for long time as we only got aesa for our F/A-18 quite recently. besides the radar in C/D variant is already MkIV (introduced recently) which is almost twice the capability of MkIII, and that's is just due to increased power in today's semiconductor technology

and type 071 from china

fuck no

boy if you think that bad wait until shit hit the fan and people are breathing under mat sabu's neck

kek the reason why china took their sweet time to rebuild liaoning

Also, afaik china oso replace steam turbine engine with commercial gas powered ones. Much more reliable but not as powerful so the speed is around 20knot only