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21 Januari 2019 Anniversary the 70th of the Lao People's Army  (all photos : Houmphet Manisouk,  Lao National Radio) On January 20, in the Phonhong district of Vientiane province, the Lao People's Army held a review ceremony to celebrate its 70th anniversary with the participation of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of modern military equipment. Formerly known as Latxavong which was declared by President Kaysone Phomvihane on January 20, 1949 with only 25 soldiers and rudimentary armament, spent 70 years of building, fighting and maturity, Nowadays, Lao People's Army is gradually developing to be formal, sophisticated and modern. In the photo, the Lao Army representative block with a rifle assaulting a Vietnamese-made Galil ACE, can be seen at first glance as an ACE 32 rifle variant. In particular, the General Secretary and Lao President Bounnhang Vorachith attended and presided over the military ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Lao People's Army at P...

21 Januari 2019 AN/TPQ-49 counter-drone radar (photo : SRC, US Army) Woodside Barracks, South Australia – In September, SRC, Inc., successfully completed a demonstration of the AN/TPQ-49 radar performing counter-UAS and air surveillance missions for members of the Ground Based Air Defence and Radar Program of the Australian Defence Force. The Australian Army has confirmed that it is investigating options for the development of a counter-UAS and air surveillance capability to help protect warfighters from hostile drones. Australia has already deployed multiple AN/TPQ-49 radars for counterfire missions. These AN/TPQ-49 radars are capable of being upgraded with SRC’s LSTAR® air surveillance software to provide drone air surveillance capabilities without needing to replace the radar hardware. This upgrade would give these existing radars advanced air surveillance and UAS detection capability to guard against emerging threats. “This demonstration helped provide evidence to our Australian al...

21 Januari 2019 Pesawat tanker Boeing KC-46A Pegasus (photo : Boeing) Pengadaan pesawat berkemampuan khusus TNI AU menarik untuk diikuti, karena dari sini akan muncul jenis-jenis pesawat baru untuk TNI AU, pengadaa ini terdiri dari 4 Pesawat Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C), 4 Pesawat Jet Tanker,  serta pengadaan 4 Pesawat Multipurpose Amphibious. Untuk pesawat tanker, TNI AU akan mengganti pesawat lama jenis KC-130B dengan nomor registrasi A-1309 dan A-1310. Menarik disini bahwa sejak awal ditetapkan bahwa pesawat penggantinya adalah pesawat jet bukan lagi propeler. Air refueling sistem air boom pesawat KC-46A (photo : Boeing) TNI AU melakukan studi terhadap tiga tipe pesawat jet tanker yaitu Boeing KC-46, Ilyushin Il-78 MK 90 dan Airbus A330-200 MRTT. Ketiga tipe pesawat ini ternyata mempunyai perbedaan bobot kosong yang sangat mencolok : KC-46 82 ton, Il-78 72 ton, sedangkan A330 125 ton. Untuk platform pesawat, ketiga jenis tanker ini memenuhi kriteria TNI AU, se...

19 Januari 2019 Blackhawk aircrew training in US (photo : Military Simulation and Training) The training of Philippine Air Force (PAF) pilots who will operate the 16 Black Hawk helicopters to be acquired from Lockheed Martin Sikorsky will be carried out in Florida, United States, National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on January 16 during the plenary discussion on DND’s 2019 budget. The defense chief made the statement when asked by Senator JV Ejercito regarding the training materials and trainors. “Since [the manufacturer is] Sikorsky, will this already be in English? I assume that these (manuals) will not be in Polish,” Ejercito said. Though built in Poland, the S-70i Black Hawk helicopters will be certified by US-based Lockheed Martin Sikorsky. “They will be in English your honor,” Secretary Lorenzana said. “That’s good to hear. Because what I heard from some Air Force personnel before, that the problem with Sokol, since mayrong language barrier, ‘yung mga manuals tapos th...

19 Januari 2019 MicroDragon satellite (photos : VNSC) Vietnamese satellite MicroDragon was successfully launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Japan Friday morning. The satellite, built by a team of Vietnamese engineers with help from Japanese experts and launched aboard Japan’s Epsilon 4 launcher, will be used to observe Vietnam’s coast line. MicroDragon measures 50x50x50 centimeters (19.6 inches) and weighs around 50 kilograms (110 pounds). It will help evaluate water quality, locate fisheries resources and monitor changes to serve aquaculture. It will also detect cloud coverage and aerosols, collect ground-based sensor signals and transmit them to stations on Earth. In 2013 the Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC) sent 36 engineers to five top universities in Japan for master’s programs in satellite technology as part of a joint Vietnam-Japan project to prevent natural disasters and climate change using satellites. Using official development ass...

19 Januari 2019 Pemerintah Indonesia akan memberi keputusan pada bulan Februari mengenai pemenang tender pengadaan drone MALE untuk ditempatkan di Natuna, Kepulauan Riau dan Timika, Papua (photo : Hakan Kilic) Turki dan Tiongkok masuki tahap akhir pengadaan drone di Indonesia Indonesia dalam waktu dekat akan membeli pesawat tanpa awak atau Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Menteri Pertahanan Ryamizard Ryacudu mengatakan ada sejumlah perusahaan yang telah mengikuti tender pengadaan UAV tersebut. Sementara itu, Kepala Badan Sarana Pertahanan (Kabaranahan) Kementerian Pertahanan RI Laksamana Muda TNI Agus Setiadji menyebut perusahaan asal Turki dan Tiongkok telah memasuki tahap akhir tender pengadaan pesawat tanpa awak atau drone. Dia menyebut dari lima perusahaan yang mengikuti tender pengadaan drone sejak tahun lalu yakni, Amerika Serikat, Israel, Perancis, Turki dan China hanya dua perusahaan yang memasuki tahap akhir. CASC CH-4 Rainbow (photo : Jane's) "Tinggal dua, satu Turki [...