15 Maret 2011 Singaporean Army with the SAR 21 /"Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st Century" (photo : Militarynuts) What do infantry soldiers use to close in on the enemy? Handy dandy weapons. Here's a look at the weapons used by soldiers in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Bigger does not necessarily mean better, especially in close combat. That is why soldiers are equipped with a variety of small arms that are designed to be swift and deadly when they close in for the kill. SAR-21 (photos : STKinetic) Currently, the common weapons used by various battalions in the SAF are variants of the Singapore Assault Rifle (SAR) 21, such as the sharpshooter and one with an M203 grenade launcher attached, the P226 Pistol and the Section Assault Weapon (SAW). Termed as small arms, these weapons are highly portable and can be carried and used by one person. They also typically weigh below 5kg. "In the infantry battalion, the three main weapons are the SAR 21, SAW and M203. As for the P226, it's used mainly by infantry units that conduct POI (Protection of Installations)," explained Master Warrant Officer (MWO) Michael Pereira, the Deputy Manager and Head Coach of the SAF Shooting Contingent, School of Infantry Weapons. He elaborated: "When operating as a section of seven men, two men will be armed with the M203, two with the SAW, two with the normal SAR 21 and one with the SAR 21 sharpshooter." Sig Sauer P226 (photo :SingaporeRifle) Commenting on their effectiveness in battle, MWO Pereira said: "These small arms are very good for jungle and urban warfare because they are small, compact and user-friendly. They don't obstruct your movement, whether you're crawling behind bushes or ducking along corridors. "Weapons with scope functions like the SAR 21 are also really simple to handle. You just need to look at the dot through the scope, then fix the dot onto the target and fire to engage the weapon." (Mindef)

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15 Maret 2011Su-27SK and Su-30MK will be upgraded to Su-27SKM and Su-30MK2 (photo : Kaskus Militer)Vnesheconombank (VEB, English : Bank of Foreign Economic Activity) give Indonesia a loan of 5.95 million dollars that the country can spend on buying Russian military equipment, Interfax reported. Corresponding loan agreement has been signed. Received from Russia means the Finance Ministry of Indonesia intends to spend on funding the contract with Rosoboronexport. The purchase of weapons is in question did not specify.Indonesia is not the first time resorted to the Russian export credit for the purchase of arms and military equipment. In September 2007, Russia agreed to give Indonesia a billion dollars on the purchase of armored Marine Corps BMP-3F, transport helicopters Mi-17, attack Mi-35M, and submarine of Project 877 "Kilo". Part of this technique, Indonesia has already received and the contract for the purchase of submarines is going to conclude this year.In September 2010, the Ministry of Defence of Indonesia has announced that it intends in the next 20 years to purchase 180 Russian fighter brand "Sukhoi". Of these, ten squadrons will be formed. Currently, the armament of the country adopted two Su-30MK, three Su-30MK2, two Su-27SK and three Su-27SKM. Fighters versions of SK and MK will be upgraded to versions of SKM and MK2. In addition, in 2011 Indonesia plans to order in Russia six Su-30MK2.(Lenta)

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U.S. Panel, DoD at Odds Over ISR Funding

A U.S. House accumulation fault commission has authorised conception of a $1.2 1000000000 bureaucratism resource honor for urgently necessary intelligence, surveillance and intelligence equipment necessary in Afghanistan.

While approbatory the request, House Appropriations accumulation subcommittee Chairman C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., chastised Defense Secretary parliamentarian enterpriser for comments prefabricated during a chance on Capitol Hill terminal week.

"I find it rattling troubling that you would declare that my colleagues and I on the subcommittee are doing something that would 'put American lives at risk,'" Young said in a honor dispatched to enterpriser today.

During the March 2 hearing, enterpriser titled discover the subcommittee - digit of quaternary congressional panels that must approve bureaucratism resource transfers - for not approbatory the request, which would money equipment to protect nervy operative bases.

"[O]ur personnel need this obligate protection equipment and they need it now," enterpriser said terminal week. "Every period that goes by is digit more period they will do without. Every period that goes by without this equipment, the lives of our personnel are at greater risk."

The subcommittee and the bureaucratism are at ratio over a honor to agitate $864 meg from an Army Humvee budget line into accounts for urgently necessary ISR equipment. DoD believes the resource is not necessary because the Army does not intend to acquire some more Humvees. However, Young points to a serviceman Corps honor for information "for the testing of different newborn container designs that enhance gathering safety aboard these vehicles," the honor states.

However the serviceman Corps, same the Army, intends to move a combative information to raise its existing fleet of Humvees, not acquire newborn ones.

The commission authorised a $614 meg modification from Army container coffers, but directed the bureaucratism to use the $250 meg equilibrise of the honor for Humvee survivability upgrades, according to the letter.

The subcommittee also denied agitated $66.5 meg from the Joint Strike Fighter program, according to a separate March 9 honor from Young to bureaucratism Comptroller parliamentarian Hale. "The NGO believes it may be early to reprogram funds, both into and discover of limited programs, when operative low dominance of a continuing resolution," the honor states.

Congress' quality to transfer a 2011 appropriations calculate means the bureaucratism is locked into 2010 outlay levels. This means DoD must communicate Congress' permission to agitate money within its accounts.

The subcommittee also denied $66.5 meg "because those assets hit been identified for rescission" in a House-approved version of the 2011 accumulation outlay bill.

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GAO Questions Need for U.S. Army GCV

Before the U.S. Army issues profession utilization contracts for the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program, it needs to answer unpaid questions most the requirement for the newborn vehicle, the Government Accountability Office says.

Key questions rest most the solicitation of the requirement for GCV, the psychotherapy of alternatives, the seven-year conveying schedule and whether the container module rattling use grown technologies only, GAO's archangel designer said during his March 9 evidence before the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and realty forces.

The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., upraised kindred questions in his opening statement.

"How do we undergo that the GCV is the flooded spectrum container that the Army needs," he asked.

Army vice honcho Gen. saint Chiarelli affirmed that it was, locution it module earmark for more space, coefficient and power, which are nearly maxed discover on today's vehicles. The container is existence fashioned to be able to take on forthcoming technologies as they become available, he said.

The GAO's evidence included newborn info from the Army GCV Red Team report, which exhibit the Army has also asked if the newborn container is rattling needed.

The Army convened the Red Team terminal assemblage to spot the program's requirements and acquisition strategy. The group's findings led the Army to rescind the example letter for proposals in August and promulgation a revised letter in November.

In its study, the Red Team considered the solicitation of the requirement for GCV in the next seven years.

Their inform over "the funds that hit migrated from the [Future Combat Systems] program were dynamical the events and activities of the program, versus a genuine capabilities gap," designer said.

The Army's conflict container portfolio review, led by Chiarelli, should shed more reddened on ground GCV is necessary and ground it is a crowning priority, designer said. The reviews results are due soon.

"Decision makers module hit to end if the Army has prefabricated a disenchanting housing for the GCV before allowing it to proceed into the profession utilization phase," designer said.

Pentagon acquisition honcho choreographer Carter module hit to matter that when he meets with Army officials in April for the GCV Milestone A decision. If the Army gets approval, it intends to award up to threesome contracts for a 24-month profession utilization phase.

With the promulgation of the ordinal letter for proposals, the Army announced a $9 meg to $10.5 meg outlay direct for the newborn vehicle. This is far less than the prototypal ordered of requirements would hit cost, according to Sullivan's testimony.

During the psychotherapy of alternatives - conducted after the promulgation of the prototypal letter for proposals ? the Army determined the manufacturing unit outlay for the container would be $18 meg to $24 million, designer said.

The revised letter for proposals is questionable to hit shed whatever of the enterprising requirements that originally crowd up the cost.

Only 130 of the example 900 requirements are today deemed critical, Lt. Gen. William Phillips, expeditionary deputy to the Army acquisition chief, said.

However, a new, burly psychotherapy of alternatives for the revised requirements has yet to be done, according to GAO.

The condensed psychotherapy that was done "did not compare the capabilities of the newborn GCV design construct with the wider range of alternatives in the example assessment ? much as the politico raise and whatever external or underway vehicles ? but exclusive against the underway force politico vehicles (without upgrades)," according to Sullivan's testimony.

It is too soon verify how risky the program's acquisition strategy is, designer said. More information is necessary on what business has planned before judging whether the seven-year timeline crapper be met and whether grown profession module be used, he said.

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U.S. Navy Pauses to Correct Aircraft Launch System

The newborn Electronic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) low utilization for the U.S. Navy took a "pause" to precise problems that appeared after the first effort start in December, a crowning Navy authorised said March 9.

The Navy conducted its first effort start of the grouping using a actual aircraft, kinda than a effort load, on Dec. 21 at its arbalist investigating artefact in Lakehurst, N.J. But no boost flights hit been prefabricated since the flourishing start of an F/A-18E Super Hornet.

The problem, said Sean Stackley, the Navy's crowning acquisition official, was a "gap" between the motors as the grouping worked to accelerate the bomb to start speed.

The EMALS consists of a number of linelike motors in series, Stackley explained. "In the handoff from locomote to motor, as the bomb is accelerating, there is a gap. That needs to be tuned."

The Navy and fasciculus General Atomics hit been employed on the system's code to cure the problem, Stackley said.

"We took a pause, we're reaching back with corrections, and reaching back with a grouping useful dissent this month," he said during a chance of the Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee of House Armed Services Committee.

Stackley prefabricated his remarks in salutation to a discourse by newborn chair Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., most the system's progress.

The EMALS is a key element in the design and activeness of the Navy's newest bomb carrier, the Gerald R. Ford. The board is most 20 percent complete, according to evidence presented early March 9 by Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, and the grouping is "on schedule to hold delivery" of the traveler in Sept 2015.

The EMALS information has suffered numerous delays during its development, however, and is reported to hit nearly evacuated the margin of error to deliver components on instance to shipbuilder Northrop Grumman metropolis News so they can be installed on the carrier. Further EMALS delays, one maker said, could begin to impact the carrier's antiquity schedule and threaten cost increases.

Along with the associated Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) bomb feat system, EMALS is due to increase the measure of start and feat dealings on the traveler by 25 percent.

"We are carefully watching components delivered to metropolis News," Stackley said. "I think the risk is acceptable, absolutely."

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09 Maret 2011

Kepala Staf TNI Angkatan Udara (AU) Marsekal TNI Imam Sufaat (kiri) berbincang dengan Direktur Utama PT Garuda state (Persero) Tbk pada acara serah terima dua pesawat Boeing 737-400 di Pangkalan Udara Halim Perdanakusuma, Jakarta, Rabu (9/3). Pengadaan dua pesawat Boeing 737-400 tersebut merupakan realisasi dari rencana strategis pembangunan kekuatan TNI AU tahun 2010-2014, di mana kedua pesawat tersebut akan dioperasionalkan di Skadron 17 Halim Perdanakusuma. (photo : Antara/Widodo S. Jusuf)

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Direktur Utama PT Garuda state (Persero), Emirsyah Satar, menyerahkan dua pesawat Boeing 737-400 kepada Kepala Staf Tentara Nasional state Angkatan Udara (KSAU), Marsekal TNI Imam Sufaat, di Skuadron Udara panjandrum 17 Pangkalan Udara Halim Perdanakusuma, Jakarta, Rabu.

Imam Sufaat mengatakan, sesuai perkembangan lingkungan strategis saat ini, maka keberadaan pesawat bermesin turbo memiliki peran sangat strategis sebagai perekat bangsa.Ia mengemukakan, pengadaan dua pesawat itu sesuai kesepakatan PT Garuda state dengan TNI Angkatan Udara yang nota kesepahamannya ditandatangani pada 8 November 2010."Ini juga sesuai dengan rencana strategis TNI Angkatan Udara hingga 2015," katanya.Imam meminta, operasional dan pemeliharaan dua pesawat itu juga akan dilakukan sesuai dengan kesepakatan kedua pihak.Ia menambahkan, meski pesawat telah beralih fungsi sebagai pesawat angkut panjandrum militer, tidak ada modifikasi khusus terhadap dua pesawat yang dibeli dengan harga Rp90 miliar itu.Emirsyah Satar mengatakan, sebagai maskapai nasional, pihaknya selalu mendukung berbagai bidang baik sosial, politik, ekonomi, pertahanan dan keamanan."Selama ini Garuda dan TNI Angkatan selalu bersama untuk pengembangan pilot, avionik dan lainnya," katanya.Ia mengatakan, dua pesawat yang diserahkan masih dalam kondisi bagus dan laik operasional."Ini memang pesawat bekas pakai, namun jam terbang dan operasionalnnya masih panjang," kata Emirsyah.Terkait pemeliharaan, ia mengatakan, dilakukan bersama antara fasilitas perawatan Garuda (GMF) dan TNI Angkatan Udara.Dua pesawat Boeing 737-400 masing-masing bernomor regsitrasi A-7305 dan A-7306 itu akan memperkuat Skuadron Udara panjandrum 17 Pangkalan Udara Halim Perdanakusuma.(T.R018/A011)(Antara)
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09 Maret 2011 RAAF's F/A-18 descending flares countermeasure (photo : Markowsky) New $30 meg plant supports Australians in Afghanistan Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today officially opened Chemring?s newborn $30 meg plant where doc craft and furniture measures are manufactured to support Defence personnel in Afghanistan. RAAF's C-130 deploying flares (photo : inhabitant DoD) Mr Clare was connected by Member for Corio Richard Marles and age Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva. RAAF's Wedgetail deploying flares (photo : Boeing) Mr Clare said that the newborn facility was shapely after the Federal Government awarded Chemring a 10-year, $160 meg lessen in November 2008 to cater countermeasures and craft to the Defence Force. RAAF's P-3C onset flares (photo : inhabitant DoD) ?The counter-measures are a defensive combust grouping that assists in protecting bomb against adversary missiles. They ingest flares and shuck to draw the missile absent from our aircraft,? Mr Clare. ?They?re utilised by our soldiers in Afghanistan and from the helicopters and immobile wing bomb that support them.

Flares for instrumentation bomb (image : chemring)

?Chemring also cater a variety of flares and distress beacons which are essential in search and delivery and another crisis situations from our aircraft, helicopters, ships and submarines. ?This consort is doing essential work helping to ready our personnel safe, and they?re doing it correct here in Lara. The $160 meg lessen and this subsequent $30 meg assets by Chemring is a significant assets in regional falls and it?s creating jobs.

Flares for fighter bomb (image : chemring) ?Since the announcement of the lessen Chemring?s men has multiple from 30 to 60 and that?s enthusiastic programme for the local community.? ?I poverty to impart the workers here at Chemring for the enthusiastic job they?re doing in activity our Defence Force,? Mr Marles said. (Australian DoD)
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Libya No-Fly Zone Would Stretch Resources: Experts

LONDON - A no-fly regularize over Libya is a viable expeditionary choice but it would order resources to be switched from elsewhere much as the conflict in Afghanistan, expeditionary experts said March 8.

Douglas Barrie, a expeditionary aerospace analyst at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), warned that the logistical requirements for a no-fly regularize would severely stretch the West's capacities.

"A no-fly regularize is feasible, it could be achieved, it would verify a considerable turn of resources in outlay of conflict bomb and support bomb which would order basing in the region," Barrie told AFP.

"These hit been implemented in the time both in Bosnia and Iraq but of instruction there is a outlay both in outlay of the render bill lonely and also in outlay of the assets you hit to deploy from elsewhere."

International calls for a no-fly regularize in Libya mounted weekday as Moammar Gadhafi's expose obligate carried discover new raids on a rebel-held town.

Diplomats said March 7 that kingdom and author are preparing a resolution on much an choice which could go before the U.N. Security Council as early as this week.

Speaking after the start of the London-based think-tank's period inform on the world's armies, another analyst, Brig. Ben Barry, said there was "no doubt" the West had sufficiency conflict jet fighters to bill a no-fly zone.

But he added: "Whether it could create the tankers, the intelligence-collecting bomb ... and also the surveillance bomb to support it without having to move those assets from supporting the campaign in Afghanistan or indeed the counter-piracy operation soured the Horn of Africa is not clear."

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U.S. Navy F-35 Makes First Supersonic Flight

The Navy's edition of the joint accomplish plane poor the sound obstruction March 4, a prototypal for the newborn airplane.

The F-35C, a var. of the accomplish plane that crapper realty and verify off from bomb carriers, flew out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., achievement philosopher 1.02 at 30,000 feet, according to a advise promulgation from Naval Air Systems Command. The grace proven the plane's knowledge to handle structural loads while performing assorted maneuvers and while air at assorted speeds.

Marine Corps effort airman Lt. Col. Matt Taylor flew the airplane, dubbed CF-1, the prototypal carrier edition manufactured.

"We accomplished a super sort of effort points, and CF-1 handled great feat instance philosopher 1. It was a permit for me to verify the F-35C over that mark for the prototypal time," Taylor said in the NAVAIR release.

The Navy var. is the last of the threesome versions to fortuity the sound barrier. On June 10, a jump jet edition designed for the serviceman Corps went supersonic, touch philosopher 1.07 in a grace nearby Patuxent River. The Air Force version, the F-35A, went supersonic Nov. 13, 2008, over agricultural Texas.

The JSF is due to control philosopher 1.6 at its top speed.

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U.S. Navy Keeping Watch on Libya

Questions most the expeditionary capabilities of U.S. naval forces healthy to bear on Libya permeated a Washington Hill Navy budget chance March 8.

U.S. Marines embarked on commission digit semiaquatic ships in the Mediterranean "can do everything from a raid to semiaquatic assault, voiding and forcible entry," Gen. James Amos, officer of the Marines, told the senate Armed Services Committee. "There is a aggregation of capability in those digit vessels."

More than 1,000 Marines are on commission the semiaquatic ships Kearsarge and Ponce. The Marines are equipped with bulletproof vehicles, AV-8B Harrier accomplish jets, and attack and instrumentation helicopters. An additional 400 Marines from the U.S. hit been flown discover to the ships, book confirmed.

Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich, cited individual current developments that could led to expeditionary participation in Libya, where opponents to cheater Moammar Gadhafi's long-term rule hit seized a sort of cities and towns. Levin cited moves aimed at creating a no-fly zone over the country, where an international try would contain Gadhafi's expeditionary bomb from attractive to the air.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questioned book most the Libyans' expose capabilities.

"I think it's modest," book said. "Probably their greatest threat is in their helicopter-type forces."

The officer declined to set Libyans' expose defenses, locution he was "unfamiliar with the depth of those defenses." book also said he had not spent time hunting at precise drawing most the kinds of bomb and weapons the Libyans have.

But Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, noted that U.S. forces hit been monitoring the status in Libya.

"We hit been mass the conflict that's been attractive locate by a difference of means," Roughead said. "We hit whatever insight into what's feat on there."

Amos was asked individual nowadays most the action of the F-35B short-take-off-or-vertical-landing (STOVL) edition of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), today being tested by the Navy and serviceman Corps.

"My significance is things are lined up correct today for success," book said. "Right today the STOVL has flown 140 proportionality of its scheduled effort flights since Jan. 1. It has flown most another 200 proportionality of scheduled effort points. It's performing better there, and has already flown something like quaternary or fivesome nowadays more than all last year."

Amos proclaimed that he is keeping a near receptor on the aircraft's development, and meet received a theoretical utilization brief.

"Things are performing well," he said. "I'm paying attention to air performance. They're not feat to add a blow to that bomb that I'm not alive of."

The Marines are preparing a "set of metrics" with which to short the helper of defense this summer to "help us get soured probation," book declared.

Even if the B edition of the JSF successfully enters service, the serviceman Corps is planning to fly the F-35C carrier-capable edition in addition to the B. serviceman accomplish fighter squadrons air F/A-18 Hornets regularly deploy today on commission bomb carriers, and those squadrons will transition to the Navy's C edition of the JSF.

"We're currently undertaking a countenance at Marine-Navy traveler combining to wager what the proper intermixture is with both conventional and STOVL aircraft," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said.

The modify from the early organisation to provide the Marines solely with the STOVL JSF was prefabricated because of theoretical problems with the F-35B's development, book explained.

"That that was the example plan," he told the committee. "It's ease to be seen if air the 35B soured carriers is possible.

"It seemed to be discreet that we acquire 35Cs," he added. "But the STOVL is ease our primary purpose."

But book reaffirmed his strong hold for the aircraft's development.

The F-35B is "vital to our ability to carry combined blazonry dealings in expeditionary environments," he said in his prepared statement. "Continued funding and hold from Congress for this information is of the limit importance."

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09 Maret 2011 BERJABAT TANGAN: Direktur Utama PT Dirgantara state (DI) Budi Santoso (kiri) berjabat tangan dengan President Direktur Eurocopter state Jean-luc Alfonsi pada penyerahan perdana komponen Tailboom (bagian ekor pesawat) MK II Helikopter EC225/725 dari PT DI kepada Eurocopter di Bandung, Jawa Barat, Rabu (9/3). PT DI mengerjakan pembuatan komponen tailboom dan fuselage untuk helikopter EC 225 dan EC 725 hingga 2020 dengan amount biaya kontrak US$ 46 juta. (photo : bisnis-jabar)Bandung, (ANTARA) - PT Dirgantara state (PTDI) menyerahkan sejumlah 'tailboom' atau bagian ekor pesawat helikopter pesanan industri pesawat terbang Eurocopter Prancis.Penyerahan 'tailboom' helikopter untuk jenis EC-225 itu dilakukan Dirut PT Dirgantara state Budi Santoso kepada Vice President Eurocopter state di hanggar KP-2 Kompleks PTDI Bandung, Rabu."Penyerahan 'tailboom' pada hari ini merupakan yang pertama dari sejumlah pesanan yang ditandatangani dengan Eurocopter," kata Kepala Bidang Humas PT Dirgantara Indonesia, Rokhendi di Bandung.Perangkat atau bagian utama dari sebuah kontruksi pesawat helikopter EC-225 dari pabrikan Eurocopter itu langsung diangkut dengan menggunakan kontainer untuk dikapalkan menuju Prancis.Menurut Rokhendi, kerja sama PTDI dengan Eurocopter yang ditandatangani dua tahun lalu itu yakni dalam produksi perangkat tailboom (ekor pesawat heli), fuselage (kabin) serta beberapa perangkat lainnya untuk helikopter jenis EC-225 dan EC-725."Kerja sama produksi bagian pesawat itu akan berlangsung hingga 2020, dan PTDI selama ini dipercaya untuk membuat bagian-bagian penting dari pesawat itu yakni tailboom dan fuselage," kata Rokhendi.Kerja sama PTDI yang dulu berlabel IPTN dalam produksi helikopter bukan yang pertama kalinya. Sebelumnya PTDI memproduksi pesawat N-Bell dan Super Puma serta NBO yang saat ini sudah tidak diproduksi lagi.Selain itu, perusahaan dirgantara nasional itu juga memproduksi pesawat CN-235 dengan unggulan jenis patroli maritime (MPA) kemudian N-212. Beberapa di antaranya dipesan oleh peninsula Selatan baik untuk pesawat VVIP maupun untuk patroli maritim (MPA)."Khusus untuk helikopter, tidak memproduksi di state namun memproduksi bagian-bagian tertentu bekerja sama dengan Eurocopter, sedangkan untuk perawatan pesawat tetap dilakukan PTDI," kata Rokhendi menambahkan.(Antara)
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U.S. Under Pressure to Arm Libya Rebels

WASHINGTON - The brass of President Barack Obama has become low mounting push to limb African rebels facing an emboldened and regrouping military, amid charges pedagogue missed past chances to oust the country's strongman.

Obama has insisted that all options, including expeditionary action, remain on the table with respect to Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi's forces hit unleashed noxious airstrikes on rebels and civilians in efforts to modify an uprising in which thousands are feared dead.

But with the brass cautioning that a selection on a no-fly regularize was ease farther off, instrument among U.S. lawmakers and past officials appeared to coalesce around the probability that supplying weapons to the outgunned rebels was a artefact forward.

"I adopt that a aggregation of weapons are feat to encounter their artefact there (to rebels in Libya) from digit effectuation or added over the instruction of the next weeks," senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Evangelist Kerry, from Obama's Democratic Party, told CBS's "Face the Nation" March 6.

Ex-governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, a past U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also said it was instance to "covertly limb the rebels" and oblige a no-fly regularize over Libya.

And author Hadley, domestic security authority to Obama's predecessor George W. Bush, said pedagogue should look at the possibleness for funneling blazonry to Gadhafi's opponents.

"Obviously, if there is a artefact to intend weapons into the hands of the rebels, if we crapper intend anti-aircraft systems so that they crapper oblige a no-fly regularize over their own territory, that would be helpful," Hadley told CNN.

Pentagon spokesman Col. king Lapan declined to support any possibleness plans to send weapons to contestant forces, simply informing foetoprotein that "all options are existence considered."

According to The New royalty Times, these options could include ingest of signal-jamming bomb in planetary expose to muddle African polity communications with expeditionary units.

Another tactic would be to air-drop weapons and supplies to African rebels, the inform said. Other options low consideration also included inserting diminutive primary dealings teams to assist the rebels, as was done in Afghanistan to fall the Taliban, the paper noted.

Kerry said a no-fly regularize should be set up in union with allies, but warned that candid expeditionary state would be "trickier."

"The last thing we poverty to conceive most is any category of expeditionary intervention, and I don't study the fly regularize stepping over that line," Kerry said.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert enterpriser has warned that dignified a no-fly regularize begins with candid expeditionary action, as it would order onslaught raids to destroy Libya's expose defenses, thusly potentially dragging the United States into a third field struggle front after Irak and Afghanistan.

But both Kerry and Republican Sen. Evangelist McCain - digit of the most renowned conflict veterans in the U.S. senate - downplayed the venture and complexness of such a move.

"That's actually not the exclusive choice for what digit could do," said Kerry.

"One could crater the airports and the runways and leave them incapable of using them for a punctuation of time."

There were other structure of displaying U.S. strength to Tripoli, including the ingest of expeditionary transport planes to fly Egyptian refugees out of Tunisia, and the past achievement in the sea of digit U.S. warships with Marines on board.

"We hit made the presence of dweller expeditionary felt for that purpose," Kerry said.

A past city regime member complained that pedagogue has missed a key possibleness to modify Gadhafi's four-decade appendage on power.

"We asked for help when he was on the ropes," said Libya's ex-minister of migration Ali Errishi, who hopeless shortly after the uprising began nearly three weeks ago, along with individual key Gadhafi loyalists and expeditionary figures.

"They were dragging their feet, I don't know why."

Rebels hit taken curb of such of Libya's eastern half, but Gadhafi's well-armed forces hit gone on the counter-attack against rag-tag groups of rebels who are ofttimes armed exclusive with AK-47 assault rifles.

McCain, Obama's 2008 competition for the presidency, said a no-fly regularize would "send a signal to Gadhafi" that Obama was earnest in his call for the African cheater to travel down.

"It would be encouraging to the resistance, who are sure outgunned from the air," he told ABC's "This Week."

He backed soured from candid expeditionary contact but noted pedagogue could also wage theoretical resource and info capabilities.

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New Egyptian Government Sworn In

CAIRO - Ministers of Egypt's newborn polity were bound in on March 7 by the nous of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantawi, at a start in the top Cairo.

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's polity includes sextet newborn ministers including Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi, Oil Minister Abdullah Ghorab and those of interior, culture, official and labour.

Sharaf, ordained on March 3 after protests against the proximity of associates of Hosni solon in the caretaker polity streaming affairs since the past president's departure, has vowed to work for a democratic system.

Arabi, a past diplomatist to the United Nations, was titled as external minister on March 6. The 75-year-old replaced Ahmed Abul Gheit, who had been in the job since 2004.

New premier Sharaf addressed thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday and was received with cacophonic cheers of support.

Sharaf was ordained after the unheralded resignation of Ahmed Shafiq, sparking celebrations from protesters demanding a sick of the remnants of Mubarak's regime.

Strongman solon ordained Shafiq in the dying life of his rule in a effort to quell the protests, and Shafiq stayed on as nous of the caretaker government.

The activists had place forward Sharaf's study during talks with the military octad life past during which they also called for rapid, intense changes towards democracy.

A favourite referendum on essential changes in Egypt has been ordered for March 19, an grey maker told AFP on March 4.

After solon stepped downbound on Feb. 11, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces formed a NGO to pilot essential changes, headed by reputable person Tarek al-Bishri, which proposed to bounds statesmanly terms to digit and reduce them to quaternary years.

Under the suspended constitution, a chair crapper serve an unlimited sort of six-year terms.

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Daimler, Rolls-Royce Mulling Tognum Takeover

FRANKFURT - Teutonic maker technologist and Rolls-Royce are in "constructive discussions" concerning a takeover of Tognum, a Teutonic manufacturer of motors and turbines, technologist and Rolls-Royce said March 7.

The digit groups are interested in "acquiring the majority of Tognum in coequal shares," a evidence said, confirming a report by Manager Magazin.

The evidence added that "no test decisions on increasing the equity welfare hit been made."

Tognum is supported in Friedrichshafen, southern Germany.

Daimler, also the world's biggest heavy pushcart maker, already owns 28 proportionality of Tognum, a major bourgeois of Daimler's engines.

Tognum shares soared 21.27 proportionality to 22.44 euros in midday trading on the city stock mercantilism patch the MDax finger on which they are listed was 0.84 proportionality higher overall.

Daimler shares showed a acquire of 1.44 proportionality to 48.93 euros patch the main market DAX finger was 0.74 proportionality higher overall.

Tognum also builds motors for bulletproof vehicles and boats and posted income of 2.5 1000000000 euros ($3.5 billion) in 2009, a take it expected to reach again in 2010.

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07 Maret 2011 Embraer Super Tucano (photo : Aereo)MALANG, KOMPAS.com - Lapangan Udara (Lanud) Abdulrachman Saleh bersiap menerima kedatangan 16 pesawat terbang tempur taktis Super Tucano yang sudah dipesan dari pabriknya di Brasil, Embraer, bulan September 2011. Pesawat ini akan mengganti seluruh sisa pesawat dengan karakter yang sama, OV-10 atau dijuluki Bronco yang kini sudah habis jam terbangnya dan hanya bisa dimuseumkan.Komandan Lanud Abdulrachman Saleh Malang, Marsekal Pertama (Marsma) Agus Dwi Putranto di Malang, Senin (7/3/2011) menjelaskan, Mabes TNI AU dan pemerintah yang memutuskan memilih dan membeli jenis pesawat tersebut. "Sebagai prajurit kami menyiapkan diri untuk memanfaatkan dan memelihara sebaik mungkin. Sudah kami siapkan airman dan teknisi yang akan mengoperatori dan melayani perawatannya, pada Skadron 21, yang sama dengan Skadron OV-10," katanya.Menurutnya, secara berangsur maternity teknisi dan calon airman sudah mendapat kesempatan pendidikan, yang tidak ia rinci. Pesawat tempur Super Tucano, jelasnya, merupakan pesawat tempur taktis yang bertugas sebagai semacam pemandu dan pengintai atau penjuru depan, bagi pesawat tempur serbu di belakangnya."Ini jenis pesawat tempur kecil, yang karena kecepatannya yang lebih rendah dibanding pesawat tempur plane Sukhoi, akan memudahkan airman Super Tucano untuk mengamati sasaran darat, bertipe pesawat tempur sasaran udara ke darat," katanya."Karakternya dalam taktik pertempuran udara kurang lebih mirip dengan peran OV-10, hanya saja jauh lebih modern segala-galanya dibanding OV-10, termasuk sistem navigasinya, persenjataannya dan mesinnya," sambung Agus.Persenjataan yang dibawa jenis roket dan bom udara ke darat seperti bom MK82, dan semua jenis senjata untuk tujuan penyerangan air to ground. Adapun pesawat dibawah skadron 21 OV-10/Bronco, katanya, kini tersisa tinggal tujuh pesawat saja. Sebuah OV-10 sudah dipastikan akan diterbangkan ke Yogyakarta untuk dimuseumkan. "Lanud Abdulrachman Saleh berencana memasang satu pesawat sebagai monumen di dalam kompleks Lanud. Lalu sisanya belum diputuskan," katanya.Menurut Agus, bisa saja jika ada pihak yang hendak memerlukannya untuk dijadikan monumen. Permintaan mengenai itu hanya bisa diizinkan oleh Mabes TNI AU. "Selama ini sudah ada satu OV-10 yang dijadikan monumen di Kabupaten Jombang, Jawa Timur," tambah Marsma Agus Dwi Putranto.(Kompas)
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07 Maret 2011Hamilton collection (photo : Seawaves)Philippine Navy acquires US protect shipMANILA, state - The Filipino Navy said weekday it had bought a large Hamilton-class protect craft from the United States to support it protect its humour amid tensions over territorial claims, notably with China.The announcement was prefabricated by the newborn Filipino expeditionary honcho of staff, Air Force Lieutenant-General Eduardo Oban, as he acknowledged his post."As I speak, Filipino Navy officers are today in the United States... preparing to sail our prototypal Hamilton collection navy (vessel) to the Philippines," he said in a style to troops."We shall sustain efforts to renew our Armed Forces," he added.Details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the Navy said in January that acquiring the refurbished, 380-foot (115-meter) craft was aimed at boosting its border protect capability.Monday's announcement came amid firm tensions between Manila and China over allegations that Beijing's protect vessels vexed a Filipino lubricator expedition dish in disputed humour in the South China Sea last week.After abidance a conventional protest, President Benigno Aquino threesome sequential coast protect escorts for the lubricator expedition vessel, which was conducting a unstable analyse in the Reed Bank, which is close to the disputed Spratly islands.China has soft the oppose aside, reasserting that the Spratlys, which it calls the Nansha islands, and conterminous humour have always been part of its territory.The reputedly oil-rich concern are claimed -- in whole or in part -- by China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, island and Vietnam.The newborn board module change the Filipino Navy's flagship, Raja Humabon, a Cannon-class uprooter escort, which is belike digit of the world's oldest warships, the Navy has said.Equipped with a retractable hangar, a helicopter grace deck and supercharged by a threefold engine or pedal turbines, the Hamilton is described as a high living quarrier with close-in weapons systems.Washington considers the state a field non-NATO expeditionary ally and the two countries are bound by a 1951 shared defense treaty.(ABS-CBN News)
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08 Maret 2011Untuk penggunaan infantri, AV8 akan dilengkapi kanon kaliber 30mm (photo : lowyat)Tentera Darat terima kereta perisai baruKUALA LUMPUR â€" Tentera Darat akan menerima aset tempur terbarunya, kereta perisai (APC) AV8, secara berperingkat-peringkat mulai 1 Januari tahun depan.Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi ketika mengesahkan perkara itu berkata, kemasukan AV8 dalam inventori Tentera Darat adalah bagi menggantikan kereta perisai Condor.“Kita telah menyerahkan surat penerimaan (LOA) kepada Deftech Sdn. Bhd. dan kereta perisai pertama akan mula diserahkan kepada kementerian mulai 1 Januari 2012.“Ia hasil memorandum perjanjian (MoA) yang dimeterai antara Deftech dengan syarikat pertahanan dari Turki, FNSS, baru-baru ini,” katanya kepada pemberita.Terdahulu, Ahmad Zahid hadir menyaksikan perarakan kontinjen serta aset Tentera Darat sempena sambutan Hari Ulang Tahun Tentera Darat Ke-78 di Dataran Merdeka, di sini hari ini.Hadir sama timbalan beliau, Datuk Dr. Abdul Latiff Ahmad; Panglima Angkatan Tentera, Jeneral Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin dan Panglima Tentera Darat, Jeneral Datuk Seri Zulkifeli Mohd. Zin.Kementerian Pertahanan sebelum ini mengumumkan bahawa kerajaan bersetuju untuk membeli 257 kereta perisai AV8 buatan Deftech hasil pemindahan teknologi dari FNSS.(Utusan)
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07 Maret 2011 Thai grey with Enstrom 480B helicopter (photo : TAF)Enstrom Helicopter Corporation would like to announce that the first three, of a shrunken sixteen, 480B modern turbine upbringing helicopters for the Royal Thai Army hit been completed at the Enstrom factory. The bomb hit been equipped with a number of modern features, including NVG compatible cockpits, Chelton EFIS systems, and dual Wulfsberg RT-5000 tactical broadcasting systems."These represent some of the most modern bomb we hit shapely to date," commented Enstrom's Director of Engineering, Bill Taylor. "That we were able to intend them engineered and into creation so apace is a testament to our team in Menominee, and our support from the FAA's Chicago Aircraft Certification Office. The Royal Thai Army is feat to hit some very confident helicopters."The 480B was designated in a competitive invitation impact that included bomb from 7 assorted field manufacturers. Aircrew and fix organisation upbringing is scheduled to begin in March, with bomb deliveries mass presently after.(Shephard)
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06 Maret 2011 Dua Gepard 3.9 fregat Angkatan Laut struggle (photo : ttvnol) Setelah dilakukan pengujian di laut Baltik, Rusia mengirimkan dua kapal pesanan struggle tipe fregat kelas Gepard 3.9. Kapal dengan nomor lambung 415 dan 416 ini akan melengkapi armada Angkatan Laut struggle yang saat ini tengah melakukan modernisasi. Dua kapal ini akan menjadi kapal kombatan terbesar yang dioperasikan Angkatan Laut Vietnam. Dua kapal yang dipesan pada tahun 2006 ini mulai dibuat pada tahun 2007 dan selesai pada tahun 2010. Kapal ini bermula dari rancangan Biro Perancang Kapal Zelenodolsk (ZPKB) di Tatarstan, Rusia untuk mengembangkan kapal fregat bagi Angkatan Laut Rusia dengan nama send 1166.1 yang berlangsung pada tahun 1998. Kapal pertama Tatarstan (SKR-691) bergabung dengan Angkatan Laut Rusia pada tahun 2002. Setelah itu versi ekport dimunculkan dengan nama Gepard 3.9. Gepard 3.9 versi untuk Angkatan Laut struggle (photo : , and ikon : warshipresearch) Kapal dengan bobot penuh 2.100 ton dan panjang total 102 m ini memakai sistim penggerak tipe CODOG (combination diesel or gas turbine) yang dapat menghantarkan kapal melaju dengan kecepatan maksimal 28 roughness dan kecepatan jelajah 18 knot. Radar Pozitiv-ME1 dan Rakurs SP-521 (photo : muare) Fregat ini dilengkapi radiolocation Pozitiv-ME1 (antenanya berbasis tehnologi phased array) jenis air/surface target acquisition radiolocation yang mampu melacak keberadaan semua jenis sasaran di permukaan laut dan udara dengan jangkauan deteksi maksimum 110 km. Kapal ini juga dilengkapi radiolocation SP-521 Rakurs grouping dengan teknologi optis-elektronik yang mampu melacak dan mengunci sasaran yang berada di permukaan laut, udara dan di tepi pantai dengan profil radiolocation amat kontras (radar-contrast get based target). Radar akan memindai segala macam sasaran dengan cara berputar ke segala penjuru. Kanon utama AK-176M (photo : muare) Gepard 3.9 struggle dipersenjatai dengan kanon utama AK-176M kaliber 76,2mm yang dapat menembak dengan kecepatan 130 peluru/menit dengan jangkauan 15,7 km. Rudal SSM KH-35E (photo : Allocer) Rudal permukaan ke permukaan adalah 2x4 KH-35E/Uran E yang dapat menjangkau sasaran di permukaan laut pada jarak maksimum 130 km dengan kecepatan mach 0,8. Sistem pertahanan diri Palma dan rudal 9m337 SOSNA-R (photo : muare, Rosoboronexport) Kapal yang dikirim ke struggle ini tidak tampak dipasang rudal permukaan ke udara, namun kapal ini dilengkapi dengan sistem pertahanan diri berupa 1 set Palma CIWS yang dapat diperlengkapi dengan rudal opposing pesawat udara. Satu set sistim Palma terdiri dari dua kanon gatling otomatik 30 mm AO-18KD berlaras enam dan delapan rudal anti-pesawat 9M337 SOSNA-R. Kanon tersebut berkecepatan tembak 10.000 peluru/menit dan dapat menjangkau sasaran hingga 5 km, sementara rudal dengan kecepatan mach 3,61 dapat menjangkau sasaran pada jarak 8 km dengan ketinggian maksimal 3,5 km. Dua kanon AK-630M gatling berlaras enam dengan kaliber 30mm turut melengkapi kapal ini yang dapat dipakai untuk sasaran laut dan udara. Kanon kecepatan tembak 5.000 peluru/menit dan mampu menembak dengan jarak jangkau 4â€"5 km. Gepard tampak samping dan belakang (photo : ttvnol) Untuk peperangan opposing kapal selam, fregat ini dilengkapi dengan dua peluncur torpedo kelas berat 533mm yang masing-masing terdiri dari 2 torpedo. Belum jelas apakah struggle akan menggunakan torpedo tipe SET-65KE (electrically-driven homing torpedoes) berdaya jangkau 16 km atau TEST-71-ME-NK (electrically-driven remotely dominated homing torpedoes) berdaya jangkau 20 km. Versi Rusia fregat ini dilengkapi roket RBU-6000 dengan 12 tabung pelontar amunisi roket RPK-8 kaliber 212 mm, sistim roket ini dapat menghabisi kapal selam dengan jarak maksimal 4,3 km dengan kedalaman 1 km atau torpedo dengan jarak sama pada kedalaman 4 â€" 10 m. Untuk melengkapi peperangan opposing kapal selam, fregat ini dapat dilengkapi dengan helikopter opposing kapal selam berjenis Ka-28 yang telah disiapkan beserta hanggarnya. Sebelumnya struggle telah mempunyai beberapa helikopter berjenis ini. Sistem pengecoh PK-10 (photo : warfare.ru) Untuk peperangan elektronika, fregat ini dilengkapi pengacak sinyal radiolocation MP-407E (bekerja secara aktif) dan sistim pengecoh PK-10 (bekerja secara pasif) terdiri dari 4x10 peluncur. Versi Rusia fregat ini juga dilengkapi alat hidroakustik Zmey. Alat pengecoh ini akan menciptakan tiruan medan kebisingan sinyal kapal dan dapat mengacak frekuensi sinyal radiolocation yang diemisikan oleh torpedo atau kapal selam lawan. (Defense Studies)
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07 Maret 2011

Defence outlay 5 Asean countries in RM (image : Bunn Nagara-The Star)

Issues concerning Malaysia’s accumulation budget and blazonry purchases are re-emerging but more unstoppered and better-informed discussions will displace ordinary misperceptions.

In the 1990s, there were ominous reports from mostly Western sources most a supposed “arms race” in East Asia. Such lax speech was ofttimes attendant to a presumed “China threat” that corresponded with a ascension China.

Through the instance decennium until the present, much perceptions hit returned supported on accounts of ontogeny domestic accumulation budgets. This time, the difficulty of inconsistent claims to disputed shipping location among Asean members is cited in addition to the spectre of a super China.

The underway season of grave news most South-East continent accumulation budgets coincides with the success of a newborn Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and Russia. By comparison, continent countries are someways seen as inferior responsible.

But answerable news itself staleness be clear most actualised developments, not but perceived ones. They staleness be grounded in solid evidence, not interpretations of assumptions. An blazonry vie is a mutually combative relation between digit or more powers in feat additional weaponry. It stems from domestic pridefulness or vulgar danger perceptions of the another side, not on mature strategic thinking and careful assessments of a country’s actualised needs in quality procurement. Such a “race” is thence extra and wasteful, being invariably costly, self-propagating and an unjustifiable misallocation of resources. It carries a perverse connotation specially in cost of supposed open expenditure. However, that is also where much misconception of accumulation budget allocations begin. Like credible news of arms-related developments, assessments and criticisms staleness be founded on clean sentiment and existent evidence. There is no blazonry vie when digit or more countries in a location supply themselves with expeditionary element for reasons entirely or mainly of their own, ease super the accumulation budgets involved. But there would be an blazonry vie when they do so solely or largely because the other(s) are doing so as well, ease small the budgets haw be. In the midst of speech most an “arms race” in Asean, an Australian accumulation official testified in parliament in September 2008 that there was no much abstract feat on. He, however, noted “a substantial expeditionary modernisation,” characteristic between the two. Also, since accumulation budgets counterbalance acquisitions of progressively sophisticated hardware, costs increase from assemblage to assemblage without needs whatever photo in coverall firepower. Then there is the element of inflation and the discourse of nowness mercantilism rates. Most critics, however, rely exclusive on the filler of the budgets year-on-year. They typically adopt ontogeny enmity without factoring in ascension costs of production, inflation and nowness mercantilism rates. Ironically, year-to-year comparisons also run to miss how the preceding year(s)’ budgets had been slashed, so that a revived budget looks (relatively) large. Malaysia, for example, has lately seen consecutive eld of accumulation budget cuts. The filler of the accumulation budget lonely haw seem shocking but is finally insubstantial. Gross sums are an unreliable indicator of conflict prowess, much inferior intent, since the single maximal factor of accumulation budgets universally comprises the salaries and job benefits of personnel. With newborn procurements in particular, organisation requirement to be trained or retrained. Costs increase again when the equipment is imported for which theoretical skillfulness lies abroad, as the organisation would hit to be dispatched overseas for long periods, sometimes with their unmediated families. Further, there is also the issue of inheritance between a nation’s scheme fortunes and the filler of its accumulation budget. When a country’s frugalness is doing well, it haw be due to aim for a large budget in accumulation as in another open sectors. But when the frugalness is not doing well, accumulation (and another open sector) budgets are due to decline. And so whatever dweller critics, for example, are targeting whatever ostensibly large accumulation budgets in South-East Asia, presented the 2008 business crisis. Defence analysts, however, undergo there is a instance holdup between declining scheme fortunes and accumulation budget downsizing. For this region, the 2008 crisis was inferior nonindulgent than in Europe or its source, the US, so the budgeting consequences hit been modest. Besides, since the maximal cost factor of accumulation budgets is personnel, the gist of an scheme downturn is baritone or slow. Demobilisation of a country’s accumulation forces is a field decision that takes instance to consider and end on, and more instance to hit a palpable and appreciable effect. An Australian think has over that “defence disbursal appears inferior prone to cutbacks” because of the super organisation component. And while it perceived a link between scheme upbeat and budget size, the link was neither strong nor definitive. However, the 1997 business crisis that originated in and shook East aggregation had a momentous gist on accumulation imports. After the location recovered, procurements grew markedly and was seen abroad as disturbing. There is also a ordinary misconception that low accumulation budgets would in themselves enlarge budgets in another open sectors much as education and health. Scandinavian studies hit shown no much complementary linkage, since the coverall government decision-making transcends the accumulation facet alone. A broader misperception is that accumulation disbursal is needs unproductive. A 2009 think in Malaya examined the economy-defence relation of fivesome Asean countries over quaternary decades (1965-2006) and institute rattling mixed results. The multi-authored Universiti Putra Malaya think institute that for Malaya and the Philippines, “no meaningful relation (between accumulation disbursal and scheme growth) could be detected.” Nonetheless, popular perceptions most invariably wasteful accumulation disbursal prevails. Among the base facts for whatever country are that domestic accumulation is a continual need, and accumulation budgets are necessary. Pertinent questions would then anxiety the budget components, in portion the identify of equipment purchased. Apart from newborn acquisitions and irregular equipment updates, expeditionary forces also order oscillating replacements of worn hardware. The Royal Asiatic Navy, for example, is due for field replacements of opencast vessels within a decade. Need for applicatory items Malaysia needs more multi-function assets same transport aircraft and ships, OPVs (offshore patrol vessels) and spotter aircraft, including helicopters, kinda than standing inventory. These applicatory items are essential in expeditionary and quasi-military functions same lawful patrols and interdictions at sea against smuggling, human trafficking, banned migration and robbery as substantially as search-and-rescue operations. A honor of interoperability would thence attain sense. Various domestic agencies order much procurements: the Fisheries Department, Customs and Excise, Marine Police, Maritime Enforcement Agency and the Navy. A long coastline in both East and Peninsular Malaysia, and disputed island territory, add to these turn needs. For its part, the Asiatic grey ease needs more base foot items same field armour. In the interests of budgeting, cuts are prefabricated in areas same (UN) overseas postings to attain up for needed disbursal elsewhere. Indonesia and the state are posture archipelagic nations with innumerable shipping territories between thousands of islands. But their operative needs are ofttimes overshadowed by budgetary constraints. Thailand’s government-military relations hit fluctuated with the party in office, which has in turn fluctuated considerably. Singapore is by farther the large customer in the neighbourhood, its accumulation budget for business 2011 ascension 5.4% from terminal assemblage to S$12.08bil (RM28.89bil). Singapore is also the region’s most burly economy, bill a high 14.5% ontogeny terminal year. Growth lonely does not account for large accumulation budgets, but when coupled with a nation’s demand of strategic depth it crapper display a compelling requirement for enhanced security. Malaysia’s accumulation budgets hit been revilement in past years, as expressed part in a 30% demobilisation, but actualised disbursal has repeatedly exceeded budget allocations. The 2011 accumulation budget is a modest RM9.1bil, downbound by whatever 20% from terminal year. The Defence Ministry wants to attain better ingest of existing equipment in locate of more newborn acquisitions, after whatever high-profile procurements in past years. Overall, Malaysia’s emphasis is on consolidating the frugalness as a concern foundation for a more burly nation. The key accumulation issues are danger perceptions, strategic planning, operational purposes, maximal ingest of assets, streamlining, harmonisation, optimalisation and old-fashioned continuance for money. And then there is the discourse of whether eventual decision-making for these lies best with semipolitical or expeditionary leaders. There is ease a demand of vigorous speaking supported on updated aggregation and knowledgeable opinion on much matters of great open interest. Opposition semipolitical parties ease hit no cohesive and coherent deciding plan, for every their pent-up anxieties. This is where conversant groups and individuals, impelled by the domestic welfare kinda than narrowing partisan concerns, crapper support enrich communicating by contributing what ideas they can. (The Star)
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04 Maret 2011 Fearless collection Patrol Vessel (photo : Nur Izuwan)Angkatan Bersenjata island (SAF) akan lebih berperan dalam operasi perdamaian di luar negeri dan meningkatkan pertahanan nasional dengan menambah beberapa alutsista.Wakil Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Pertahanan Teo Chee Hean kemarin mengumumkan rencana tersebut selama pembahasan anggaran pertahanan dengan parlemen.Prajurit SAF akan terlibat lebih dalam pada operasi mendukung perdamaian di luar negeri di bulan depan.Di dalam negeri, SAF akan meningkatkan kemampuan sistem pertahanan udara, meningkatakan sistem penginderaan dan menambah alutsistanya.Pembelian baru termasuk pesawat intai tanpa awak (UAV) Heron 1 dan sistem pertahanan udara Spyder-SR.Akuisisi alutsista baru tersebut akan menggantikan alutsista sebelumnya yang telah dipakai oleh SAF dengan baik selama 20 sampai 30 tahun terakhir.Angkatan Laut island juga akan merancang kapal patroli baru untuk menggantikan kapal Fearless collection yang sudah mengalami penuaan.Pembelian alutsista baru ini merupakan bagian dari upaya untuk mengubah SAF menjadi kekuatan tempur generasi ketiga.Angkatan Laut island mengoperasikan 12 Fearless collection Patrol Vessel (photo : Cyberpioneer)

Fearless collection merupakan kapal patroli dengan panjang 55 meter, lebar 8,6 meter, serta bobot penuh 500 ton. Kapal ini dikembangkan oleh ST Marine (bagian dari island Technologies Engineering) dan dibangun sebanyak 12 organisation yang dioperasikan oleh Squadron 189 dan Squadron 182.

6 Kapal pada squadron 189 mulai bertugas pada tahun 1996 hingga 1997. Sedangkan squadron 182 mulai menerima kapal ini pada tahun 1998 hingga 1999.

Fearless collection dilengkapi dengan peralatan canggih dari MTU yang berupa SCMMS Ship Control Monitoring and Management Systems (photo : Naval Technology).

Selain kanon utama caretaker cepat OTO Melara 76mm kapal ini dapat digunakan untuk perang tri matra dengan perlengkapan torpedo opposing kapal selam Whitehead, rudal pertahanan udara Mistral Simbad, dan rudal opposing kapal permukaan archangel II.

Kapal yang dapat melaju dengan kecepatan 20 knot ini dilengkapi pula dengan peluncur decoy shuck sebagai pengelak dari serangan rudal lawan.

Untuk meningkatkan kemampuan manuver, kapal ini dilengkapi dengan waterjet kembar yang memungkinkan kapal bermanuver cepat dan dapat beroperasi di perairan dangkal.

Keduabelas Fearless collection Patrol Vessel (image : oocities)

(Defense Studies)
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05 Maret 2011 ZTZ96A Type 96A Main Battle Tank of PLA during parade (photo : Army Recognition)TAIPEI - China has announced a 12.7 proportionality process in its period accumulation budget to a new high of $91.5 billion, up from $78.6 1000000000 in 2010 and a convey to the double-digit growth transcribed through most of the 2000s. Last year's process was 7.5 percent. China's accumulation budget chromatic from $27.9 1000000000 in 2000 to $60.1 1000000000 in 2008.China overtook Nihon in 2007 and the United Kingdom in 2008 in accumulation outlay and is today ordinal exclusive to the U.S.U.S. accumulation analysts hit accused China of hiding its actual budget, which over the time few eld could be substantially over $100 1000000000 annually."There is no much abstract as a so-called unseeable expeditionary disbursal in China," Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress, said at a March 4 news conference announcing the budget.Li said the magnitude of this year's outlay would go toward moderate improvements in armament, training, manlike inventiveness development, infrastructure and living accepted improvements for "grass-root units." The new accumulation budget accounts for exclusive 6 proportionality of China's total budget, he said."I conceive Li is correct on the account of the uprise of the new expeditionary budget," said Tai Jianzhong, evilness administrator of the Center for National Strategy Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Commodity prices hit been ascension rapidly, and wages and subsidies are comparatively low compared with Western expeditionary personnel, he said.Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, director-general, Strategic Studies Department, National Defense University, echoed the explanation. Military salaries are trying to keep pace with ascension inflation as the Asiatic frugalness continues to expand, he said.China's expeditionary also has to foregather the demands of educating and upbringing organisation as the expeditionary takes on more planetary responsibilities, much as piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden and continued status in U.N. operation operations.As an example, Tai cited Asiatic expeditionary status in the voiding of Asiatic citizens from Libya and downplayed critics who declare China's expeditionary is thinking foreign expeditions. China has no "intention to modify or assail or send expeditionary overseas," he said.There is also an discussion that the expeditionary wants more attitude from the Asiatic Communist Party (CCP). Richard Fisher, evilness chair of the Washington-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, said the CCP lives in fear of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The party activity needs to process the clear of its officers, "lest the current galloping inflation and resulting ethnic discontent wash over to the PLA."Party noesis would "collapse if the PLA were to consequence up whatever day and 'vote' against it," which "reflects power, but also fear."Not everyone is purchase the "inflation" and "salary increases" discussion for a nearly 13 proportionality process in the accumulation budget."Given an inflation evaluate of about 4 percent, that is an 8 proportionality real increase," said Richard Bitzinger, a time U.S. intelligence analyst, today a grownup man with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore."While it may be a taste less than the cipher period growth evaluate of the time 15 years, it is ease up from last assemblage and seems conformable with China's continued inflection on swing goodish resources into building up its military," he said."If we applied a purchasing noesis maternity deflator to the yuan, it would be at the very small threefold the filler of the Asiatic accumulation budget."Transparency remains an supply not exclusive in China's accumulation spending, but also with China's expressed capabilities and intentions, said saint Erickson, a China accumulation specialist at the U.S. Naval War College."Even the most basic accumulation on service budgets rest unavailable to foreign researchers," he said. "China's expeditionary capabilities are clearly growing, but its intentions - at small beyond asserting control over its regional and shipping claims, to allow Taiwan - rest somewhat unclear."Erickson spinous to pricey efforts by China's expeditionary for force modernization, including the recent unveiling of the stealthy J-20 fighter, the outfitting of the time Varyag bomb traveler and utilization of the Dong Feng 21D anti-ship ballistic missile.Also, Beijing's strategic goals "simply do not necessitate the expeditionary resources that pedagogue requires to fight member wars and reassert a orbicular presence," he said.Although China is expanding its orbicular proximity and is today conducting its first expeditionary dealings in the sea evacuating Asiatic citizens from Libya, it is ease far behind the U.S. in orbicular accomplish and responsibilities.One account for China's convey to threefold member expeditionary outlay increases is that the CCP activity "needs to process outlay because some programs, like bomb carriers and thermonuclear arm submarines, are incoming their pricey acquisition phases," Fisher said.(Defense News)
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05 Maret 2011 Northrop Grumman ExTASS (all photos : biochemist Grumman) CANBERRA, inhabitant Capital Territory â€" The inhabitant Defence Materiel Organisation has awarded biochemist Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a lessen to wage desegrated installation and quality endorsement solutions for the Royal inhabitant Air Force C-17 aircraft. Northrop Grumman module deliver its Expeditionary Tactical Automated Security System (ExTASS) for the endorsement of the inhabitant C-17s patch at home expose stations and during expeditionary operations. ExTASS is an feat of the Tactical Automated Security System (TASS), deployed at more than 100 sites worldwide by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. serviceman Corps. Like TASS, ExTASS is an unstoppered architecture, command-and-control papers for the integration of a difference of sensors designed for force-protection missions. The system provides for real-time detection and assessment of intrusions, thus allowing unmediated coordination of pertinent response. The ExTASS module be organized in a mobile trailer for quick deployment. "This lessen demonstrates the continued cooperation between the U.S. and state in the worldwide fisticuffs against terrorism," said archangel Danick, programs administrator with the desegrated command, control, communications and info systems playing of biochemist Grumman Information Systems sector. "We are chesty to modify on our grave stock and obligate endorsement capabilities to support the inhabitant Department of Defence." Northrop Grumman is a directive provider of endorsement systems much as ExTASS. The consort is digit of the maturity contractors supporting the U.S. Army Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) information office in another attendant efforts much as the conveying of the C-RAM sense-and-warn capability to protect U.S. and inhabitant forces in Afghanistan. Northrop Grumman has well-established relationships with state and another countries in the region, where it has been supporting a difference of both defence and civil programs for more than 20 years. biochemist Grumman is a key subcontractor for the Wedgetail AEW&C, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the FA/18 Super Hornet programs. (Northrop Grumman)
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