Originally posted by 4Justice:

Iraq has oil. What does georgia have? And under heavy sanctions is still not the same as being invaded. So whats your point?

And the Americans already had lots of excuses due to the moral highground they were handed after 9/11.

FYI: Georgia's got oil too..  Oil pipelines.  Worth a lot too.

Originally posted by Beaten_And_Damned:

Putin became the PM?

 

Most believe that Putin is still the real power behind the scenes.

The UN, NATO, US can't touch Russia at the moment. 

Europe is going into recession, US economy is still coughing blood.  Russia is the 2nd largest oil supplier next to Saudi, and major European countries such as France n Germany still rely heavily on Russian oil and Gas.

If any fighting starts, get ready to pay $300 a bucket for oil.

LoL.  SgT-rex should be awarded the SgForums, resident Lion Tamer award.

Some of you guys got no sense of history.  This whole S.Ossetia episode is nothing but a re-run of the Sudetenland Crisis in 1938.

Appeasement policies by good ol' chap Chamberlain marched the world right into World War 2.  Russia is in exactly the same position Nazi Germany was back then.  Strong, but unsure.  It was only after the world collapsed and gave in and handed over Sudetenland, that She decided that that action was sufficient indication of Her strength and ability to intimidate the rest of the free world.  That led to the total annexation of Czechoslovakia.

Yes, sure, lets just GIVE South Ossetia to Russia.  Might as well start digging graves for ourselves and get ready to jump in. Cos when the sh!t hits the fan, we're probably not gonna have time to even put on a radiation suit.

Melissa has pretty low EQ...

The post doesn't offend me, but it does touch on a very important issue.  Are our local graduates of a decent calibre?

Honestly, its hard to set a benchmark for every faculty and discipline.  Engineers and Philosophers would probably rank each other pretty lowly.

Coming from an Arts and Social Sciences faculty, I do see a lot of "spewing of facts."  Sometimes, its just paraphrasing what is printed in the textbooks and readings.  Nothing wrong with that.  Some people will learn these as facts and unbreakable truths... Yet some will go beyond and critically analyse the purported facts.  And I guess, thats what really seperates the classes of honors these graduates get.

Just my 2 cents.

Oh yeah.... the US Coast Guard is like the US's Brown water navy. =D

As Triumph the insult comic dog would say, "You have quite an imagination!"

well done! good job!

Can you please report on the Malaysians and Indonesians military instead?  We don't seem to be concerned about Australia's problems at the moment.

Hey Lionnoisy, why don't you write in and complain to the US NAVY that you think their LCS design is not STEALTHY enough. 

I'm sure they are open to suggestions.

Wah, is your eyes some kinda radar?  You look only can see that its not stealthy....

Originally posted by ArmyWife:

Are you claiming now HERE, that COL Brig commanders and BG Div Comms do not wear their no.4? please confirm this, are you saying that? Hahaha! Mindef will laugh their heads off! And I will be sure to let them know there's such jokes around on the net.

Of cos the "ranks matter "and the rank has NOTHING to do with the uniform and the uniform has nothing with the ranks. That's what I was trying to tell you when you pulled this joke: quote master "I guess around MAJ-LTC1 perhaps..since COLs rarely wear no.4 to work..unless he has prior training to oversee..just show me one COL who wears a no.4 to work" Now you know how silly you sound. That's what you said. I quoted you so please, don't try to edit your post. Please read. You said my husband must be around MAJ-LTC because he wears no.4 and you asked me to show you a COL who wears no.4! you said, no.4 = at most MAJ/LTC1. LTC2 and above= no.3

Were you not the one who used uniform to infer rank? IT WAS YOU, you SAF noob.

And when I exposed you, you came up with this weak stuff?! quote master "there u go digressing from the point..of course the ranks comes into play la..wat the hell are u talking about when you were blabbering about no.3?"

It was YOU who said wear no.4 = at most MAJ/LTC1. NOT ME. I corrected you.

Who are you trying to kid to save face now?! Are you even lucid?

Okay, noted.

Send me a summary email by tomorrow morning.

Originally posted by arball:

hmm...

big ballon fuel station would be a huge target.... (large... slow... target....)

 

abit bad to have the thing crashing down... huge fireball falling on you.....

Haha, I think you misunderstand the concept of either mid-air refueling or airships.

For aircraft to tank in mid air, both the tanker and the aircraft needs to be level and moving at about 300kts.  So its as large and slow as a regular KC-135, and the KC-135 is MANNED.

I liked the unmanned air-refueling platform concept they showed in STEALTH.  Unmanned airship that refuels.  I thought that it was a pretty good concept except that I prefer a flyin-boom over a probe-system.

We already have those.  They can take off vertically, land vertically, fight on land, air, sea and space!  Just that they are damn top secret and classifiedest to the maximumest of security clearances.

We got 2 programs, 1 called Gundam, the other called VF-1

Originally posted by Ponders:

Whole Field pack full of SFG87 and SBO full of C4.. then charge into enemy encampment...

die with fireworks and glory.

I've a "friend" from an arabic -religious "charitable" organization that has taken great interests in your desires. 

Sodomizers and people who accuse of Sodomy. 

Thats about correct. 

SEAD's by nature a "Reactionary" type, while DEAD is when you go out and actively destroy the site whether it emitting or not.

However, I wouldn't want to carryout a DEAD mission without a SEAD flight or a 2 HARMs at least for safe measure. DEAD sorties do have HARMs as well, unless they are being covered by a SEAD escort.

Oh yeah, I did hear something about the E-model of the HARM.  Behaves like a Hellfire during its terminal phase.  I guess that killed any possibility of a ARM-capability for the AIM-120D.

Originally posted by crimsontactics:

Seriously SG dosen't need an aircraft carrier or heli carrier or even amphibious carrier. Such carriers are usually meant to be offensive rather than defensive. Look at the history of aircraft carriers and you will find that their primary objective for patrolling is to be able to send their planes to attack a place more rapidly rather than defending their own waters.

Also, the major problem arrising from having an aircraft carrier is the disruption of peace within SEA. Why in heaven must a small country like us process such an offensive weapon? I thought the primary doctrine for our defence force is to deter the enemy long enough to recieve help from our allies? I would rather have more defenses on the island than to have a carrier floating somewhere in the straits.

 

 

Because, if we can deliver a first round knockout punch, the war is over.

There are several drawbacks with laser guided systems like the RBS-70. 

Firstly, aircraft manuevering at tactical airspeeds isn't exactly easy to track. 

Secondly, the man in the loop fire control also means that it engages one target at one time.

Laser warning receivers are common implementations on Attack Choppers.  And certain systems also allow aircraft like the F-16s to detect passive launched weapons, even IR guided ones.

It definitely a good system to ambush close air support flights though.  But I wouldn't want to stay "in the loop" after shooting off one.  Cos once my missile goes off, I'll be on the receiving end of a Mk-20 or equivalent.

Yeap, that I have to agree with you.  The outlook in terms of manpower definitely rules out the possibility of having a floating bird farm any time soon.

IMO It is more likely that we might see a AAW frigate than anything else within the next 10 years.

Originally posted by pigsticker:

A RSAF Encik once told me: "Ask a pilot what will he do if he's locked on by the RBS 70."

he says the pilot won't be able to answer u... is that true??

Encik needs to stay current.  RBS-70 is not exactly state-of-the art technology anymore.   There are passive missile launch sensors these days, and the RBS-70 doesn't really have that fantastic a reach.

Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:

You guys know the RSN has a serious manpower shortage.

But do you guys know how severe it is?

And please tell me why there's a requirement for such a strike craft. Don't tell me that a small-aircraft carrier/helo-carrier or whatever is needed to strike to defend or any bull-shit like these.

If I have limited manpower I would still try for something beyond my punch?

Thats right.  But 10 years down the road? 20? 30? Policy changes? Females serving NS?

These are other variables that we cannot predict in the future.  Its easy to rule out things if we use current circumstances as the premise for future options.  Who knows? Maybe the carrier doesn't even have to be too big if they are shooting off UCAVs?

The article is only half right.

The SAR-21 FAMILY of rifles are indeed very very good.  Especially the NEWER and lighter modular version.

The SAR-21 Vanilla that the infantry guys get... well... forget it lar.

Ya... each AMRAAM comes with its own Sudoku game.  Have to solve the puzzle before you can launch it.

HARM :  You need them for "shoot outs."  RWR yells at you, missiles in the air, SHOOT the HARM. (Those over the shoulder launches bring a tear to my eye....)

JDAM :  RWR Naked, you get information from ELINT / SIGINT / COMMINT ppl that there's a StraightFlush radar at the mentioned coordinates.   Fly high and fast, and drop the JDAM.

Different weapon, different purpose.  Apply them wrongly, and you have a dead pilot.

Nobody knows what other devious plans the ADA ppl have up their sleeves in real life, no need to say online discussion.