No one has any imperialistic designs on Malaysia per se except maybe the islands in the South China Sea.

Visit to MSRF (Sentinel class featured and Maritime Security USV (now armed))

Maritime Security Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) Specifications (variant/s of this USV (optionally armed with anti ship missiles) will be carried by RSNs incoming MRCV heavy frigate/destroyer class).

Length
16.9 metres
Beam
5.2 metres
Displacement
30 tonnes
Speed
In excess of 25 knots
Endurance
In excess of 36 hours
Operators (when operating remotely)
2

Equipment
Strobe Light & Siren
Search Light
Long Range Acoustics Device (LRAD)
12.7mm Stabilised Weapon System with Laser Dazzler
Navigation Radar
Global Positioning System

This post has been edited by Mai189: Sep 29 2022, 07:24 PM

Singapore deployed one of its QRA squadrons yesterday.

Singapore Airlines passenger arrested after allegedly making bomb threat; fighter jets scrambled

The bomb threat was subsequently verified to be false, MINDEF said.

SINGAPORE: Police arrested a 37-year-old man on a Singapore Airlines flight after he allegedly assaulted cabin crew and claimed he had a bomb in his carry-on bag, the police said on Wednesday (Sep 28).

In response to queries from CNA, police said it was alerted at 2.40am to an alleged bomb threat on board flight SQ33 from San Francisco to Singapore.

The man was restrained by the crew, and police subsequently arrested him for making false threats of terrorist acts and for suspected consumption of controlled drugs.

Singapore Airlines said the "unruly" passenger allegedly hit a cabin crew member.

The plane landed safely at Changi Airport at about 5.50am, under the escort of Republic of Singapore Air Force F-16C/D fighter jets, police said.

The aircraft was then taxied to a remote bay for security checks and the passenger was handed over to airport police, Singapore Airlines said. After the security checks were completed, the aircraft was towed to Terminal 3.

Data from air traffic tracking website Flightradar24 shows the plane circling before its descent towards Singapore. No delay in arrival was indicated, with a flight time of 16 hours and 25 minutes recorded.

Personnel from the Airport Police Division and the army’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives Defence Group were on site to investigate the passenger's claims, the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

The bomb threat was subsequently verified to be false, MINDEF said.

All passengers and crew disembarked normally at 9.20am, the airline said.

"Singapore Airlines apologises to all affected customers for the inconvenience caused by this incident. We are assisting our customers with the rebooking for any onward connections that they may have missed," the airline said.

"We are assisting the authorities with their investigations and regret that we are unable to provide further details." - CNA

RSAF has repeatedly trained for such scenarios.


This post has been edited by Mai189: Sep 29 2022, 07:58 PM

Singapore's F35 integration plans quickens - building F16V and F35 simulators at CONUS (Continental USA) Ebbing Air National Guard Base





SOS:
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/se...-environmental/

Mai's note: This makes sense as RSAF's F16Vs will not be retired over night but in stages from 2030 onwards as more and more RSAF F35s As/Bs become operational. So eventually, the airbase will house 36 RSAF f35s (the 12 F16V slots will convert to F35 slots). If SG has as many as 36 F35s in CONUS there will typically be about 72-80 F35s in SG itself. Of course, the overseas F35s can be recalled in times of heightened threat.

This post has been edited by Mai189: Oct 1 2022, 06:55 PM

New Pandur II 8x8 for the Indonesian Army. Credit to ASEAN Military Forum.

Singapore and Australia concludes Exercise Singaroo 2022 (side-note thousands of SAF troops are in Australia right now for several unilateral/bilateral exercises and reaffirm the defence partnership between the 2 nations (backbone of South East Asia stability as status quo powers.)

The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) participated in the bilateral maritime exercise, Exercise Singaroo, from 26 to 29 September 2022 in the Northern Australia Exercise Area off Darwin. The RSN deployed a Formidable-class frigate RSS Steadfast with an embarked Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk naval helicopter and a Victory-class missile corvette RSS Valour, while the RAN participated with a Hobart-class destroyer HMAS Hobart embarked with a MH-60R helicopter. Personnel and assets from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF)'s Darwin Detachment 2022 also participated in the exercise with F-15SG and F-16D+ fighter aircraft, a Gulfstream G550 Airborne Early Warning aircraft and an A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport.

During the exercise, the RSN and RAN conducted a series of naval warfare trainings, including air defence exercises, manoeuvring drills and communication drills. This year's exercise also provided significant opportunities for integrated sea-air training which strengthened the interoperability between the RSN and RSAF.

Highlighting the importance of Exercise Singaroo in enhancing cooperation between both navies, Commander 8th Flotilla Colonel Ng Yen Meng said, "Exercise Singaroo is the mainstay exercise for the RSN and RAN. The exercise provides both navies with the opportunity to deepen professional sharing, learn from one another and strengthen our friendships."

Inaugurated in 1995, this year marks the 21st edition of Exercise Singaroo. Exercise Singaroo is one of many bilateral military interactions between the Singapore Armed Forces and the Australian Defence Force. The exercise underscores the close and long-standing defence relations between Singapore and Australia. Both armed forces also interact frequently through multilateral exercises, high-level visits, regular dialogues, professional exchanges and the cross-attendance of courses.






Video of 2020 edition (not this year):

Colombia signed contract for 5 SIGMA 10514.



https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/n...mbian-navy.html

Indonesian Air Force is expected to recieve its first out 5 units C-130J-30 Super Hercules on Febuary 14th 2023.

KF-21 Boramae. Beautiful aircraft.

Msia will do well avoid this 4-4.5 gen jet (and avoid being a sucker) and save up for the F35 or later 5th gen jets (and buy it in 2030s)

The Koreas managed to get some inputs on rcs reduction for the air frame from the US which is not as good as the F35/22s and negated by external stores/weapon carriage. The avionics e.g radar (from israel) are inferior to current 4.5 gen jets like the Typhoons, Rafales, F15Sg/QA/EX/F16Vs, etc.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Internatio...own-fighter-jet

This post has been edited by Mai189: Oct 2 2022, 11:18 AM

In the last few decades, maf assets were selected by politicians contrary to service recommendations. The only way to have a good selection is to elect just and upright politicians.

Thats true. It may well require a generational change or many generations. Even so, Msia shld stick to tried and tested Western vendors with the institutional knowledge of building competent combat jets. And not national projects for which the patents are shared or belong to other countries and/or lack the transparency or moral capacity to acknowledge deficiencies.

Beautiful! KF-21 Boramae.

This post has been edited by azriel: Oct 2 2022, 02:40 PM

Hehehe. Truth out. Go on admire it...

This post has been edited by Mai189: Oct 2 2022, 03:30 PM

Beautiful shot of the Gripens.

if malaysia can get F/A-50 and 2nd hand F/A-18 in next 10 years, the MRCA program postpone until beyond 2030 shouldn't be a big problem.

Separately almost concurrently, RSN LPDs RSS Endurance and Persistence and RAN's HMAS Adelaide are involved in Exercise Trident 2022:





https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-det...xercise-trident

And separately and almost concurrently, SG conducts Exercise Wallaby 2022 with more than 4000 troops

https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/pho...laby-down-under





They may not be ready to showcase this yet:

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-det...lly-payload-pod

^
Heron 1 UAV carrying

SAR (synthetic aperture radar) / MTI (moving target indicator), EO (electro-optics) ^ -> for multiple tracking of targets over a large battlespace.

Yeah. The Cik SUs can be replaced with F35s as well. The incoming newer F35 engines gives up to 30% additional range, acceleration, thrust, etc. Not unless there is a significant boost to Msian defence budget, Msia should stick to F35s and a LIFT cum light fighter.

More importantly, Msia can have the interoperability she needs with more advanced military powers Australia, UK and Singapore in the FPDA.

Unfortunately, the Russian defence industry died with the sanctions .e.g. no critical chips etc.