Originally posted by LRRP:

Buttons are still best. One sergeant mentioned that velcro may compromise your position when u are laying an ambush in a dead quiet night.

Haha that is exactly what my mother said.

This is good news. I just hope that we can make some money from all this.  Remember the Bofors scandal?  20 years later it is still in the Indian legal system.

SGTrex, in the ULWH category, there are only 2 players, more importanly only 1 non US supplier.

Sigh this is the reason I don’t SG military that frequently.

The quality of the posts are going downhill.

For the record on Ultimax 100, you can piece together the history from here.

http://www.thegunzone.com/556dw-6.html

Note: Mr Sullivan moved to Singapore to design the weapon due to US export restrictions.

Large ventilation on top of the slide for the barrel?  Hmm wouldn't make it easier to jam?

Large ventilation on top of the slide for the barrel?  Hmm wouldn't make it easier to jam?

The specs are available here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_International_AWM

SAF uses this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM_.338_LM and very strangely AIAW too. I always thought the snipers uses SIG.

Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:

Sorry I think AIM 54 never hit anything during war time.

Its hit rate was so poor that the only thing that it could reasonably hit were flight drones.

Also the F-14s have been banned from performing extremely low level flying (sea top flying) and the use of afterburner due to troubles in its engines.

snip

I think your info on F-14 performance is out of date.  Afterburner problems were resolved in the nineties?  I can't remember the cause, need to check some books at home.

Originally posted by Scania L113 lover:

Say....is that a ghost in your avatar?

No from

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showpost.php?p=3075460&postcount=6

This info is from a paper put forward by a think tank. It is on why F-22 is not worth the money.

Quite old but  worth a read. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3389&from_page

The performance data on the chart will show you why F-18 is taking over the F-14.  Not to mention the fact that the F-14 is a hangar queen, going at 1 maint hour per flying hour.

Originally posted by specialOps:

They can disagree all they want, but I personally know people who were in the Bionix development team, and they spent several years developing it, and we also know the reason for its specific developments...its not a copied product, there was nothing to copy from in the first place.

Anyway...ST's factory is at Boon Lay, its not a secret...all the Bionix, SAR-21, Ultimax-100 SAW, bullets....Primus, FH-2000, mortar..wadever, all from there.

It is 100% designed and made in Singapore....one of the best APCs in the world today...very proud of it.

I was referring to the last part about the best APCs in the world. IMHO it could have been designed better.

Whether did the folks ST copied the designs, I couldn't care less.

You have been watching too much TV. Most of the time, the bullet will travel straight through. Unless stopped by the power window motor, Side Impact Protection bars.

Check out Buic of truth.

http://www.theboxotruth.com/

Originally posted by datafuser:

Isn't it driven by a pusher prop?

If you put a warhead on it, the pusher prop vehicle can be a cruise missile, a rather slow one.

Cheers,
Sunho

Hmm I like this a lot!!!

Laser ring gyro for INS

IMHO we don't stand a chance against the lobbying power of Colt Ind. Otherwise the M4 would have been thrown out long ago.

Now for the SF community the U100 acceptance will be easier due to less public oversight.

Originally posted by Shotgun:

If I wanted to drop bombs. I'd fly an F-16 to drop a JDAM. Not a chopper.

You need $$$$ to buy an F-16 and somebody to sell you a JDAM. Not every country spend as much money on defense as Singapore.

Originally posted by specialOps:

Correction..

the Bionix is a 100% Singaporean project....cause we needed a specific vehicle specification.

It is 100% designed and made in Singapore....one of the best APCs in the world today...very proud of it.

Some people may disagree with you.

Originally posted by eagle:

combat load for recce (my time was a few years ago only, not the load of 20 years ago)

Heaviest is the R2 load:

Field Pack:
7 standard field packs (with ET blade) (~4kg? Not sure)
1 * 940 signal set with battery (10kg)
1 * 940 signal set accessories (~1kg+)
1 * 940 battery (~1kg)
1 * 1.5 litre bottle (1.5kg)

SBO:
Standard with 2L water + 1 * smoke grenade
In war, will need to carry 3 additional magazines of rounds I think.

Food: 3 days ration

Weapon: Carbine (Now is SAR21)

Cannot remember if I have forgotten anything else...

akan datang vests with inserts! what happened to frag grenade and ammo?

Originally posted by chino65:


We all know the M16 is not a perfect system.

But for all its supposed unreliability, the IDF have fought in the desert for 30 years with the M16.

(And here we have people in the US conducting laboratory tests to simulate desert combat? What a stupid waste taxpayers' money. Why not just ask the IDF "hey does the M16 work in the desert?)

There is the usual lame argument that the IDF used M16' cos they were FOC. But if the M16 didn't work in the desert, they wouldn't use it even if you pay them to.

But as it turns out, the IDF love the M16 / M4 and is a "weapon of choice".
...

IDF used expensive FN FALs in the 60's but they phased it out when they found it sensitive to the desert environment. [b]And yes, the FN FAL is a piston-drive.

So a piston-drive is not the magic bullet to reliability. [/b]

The FN is 7.62mm and the then new standard is 5.56mm. No prizes for the reasons of change.

Dropping iron bombs from helicopters is a very low tech way of having PGM. Fly to the GPS coordinates, minimum height, and release.

What coordinates to fly to? Do homework first.

No export restrictions.

Originally posted by chino65:

Here's an embarrassing incident with a training grenade.

The training grenade looks just like a real grenade. It is made of metal and has big holes in the body. Same as SFG87 it has safety clip, safety pin etc. After use the instructor will retrieve the metal body and put in another new blasting fuse. It is louder than a thunderflash.

I tossed the practice grenade around a corner in a comms trench into the bunker. As per SOP, I had my back turned away from the blast direction.

But the grenade had hit something and bounced back and rolled towards me. Since I had my back turned as per SOP I didn't know the thing rolled towards a few inches from my a.ss. Luckily, the instructors on top of the trench saw and yelled for me to scram.

I scammpered away just a milisecond before the grenade exploded. And luckily it was all just a drill.

So should a grenade be round or square?

It should be round. The problem with the grenade rolling back is due to a SAF problem. The training areas are simply too clean. The rooms do not have enough debri to simulate real world.

tsk tsk. Wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_bulldozer

The best model currently available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D9

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compound bow

ok, thank you my error for having old info.

Does anyone have a photo of RSAF blk 52+? The model with the extra bulges near the radome. At about 10 and 2'o clock seen from the front.

Originally posted by specialOps:

Advantage of the F/A-18D:
- Better low-speed manoeverability
- Better reliability (Two-engine + made-for-carrier engineering)

Disadvantege:
- Expensive
- Higher maintenance (two-engine + more expensive parts)
- Can't share technology and "special equipment" with a special ally.

Advantage of F-16:
- Much better agility.
- Technology and equipment sharing with a special ally
- Low cost
- Outwardly more defensive rather than offensive weapon (Less likely for political hoo-haa)

Disadvantage:
- Very slightly lower payload
- Shorter range

Overall ... F-16 still more worthwhile buy.

You have no idea how wrong you are.

Try getting an F-16 to carry one of the following:

1. Harpoon
2. AMRAAM
3. AMRAAM + Harpoon

Pull 3G, lucky the wings are still there.