With regards to today's ST
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Why would RSAF want to reveal abt the Harppons on the MPA?
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Terrorism at Sea.
In case you noticed, the Fokker-50 Enforcer targeted audience...is..
to send those Malaysian/Indonesian sea pirates a straight warning..
Remember that Pirates + Terrorists could work together?
The Air-Launched Harpoons solves this combined problem. =)
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Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:Terrorism at Sea.
In case you noticed, the Fokker-50 Enforcer targeted audience...is..
to send those Malaysian/Indonesian sea pirates a straight warning..
Remember that Pirates + Terrorists could work together?
The Air-Launched Harpoons solves this combined problem. =)
Full Stop.
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With Bush winning the Presidential race, the harpoon will most likely get to be use sometime during the next 4 years. Yeehah!
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Can someone please kindly paste the news here. Thank you.
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what's there to reveal? its been a long known fact that the MPAs have the capability to carry 4 harpoons each, two under the wing and two under the fuselage. i've in fact got a poster of the MPA carry such ordnance.
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the harpoon locked onto the pirates' sampan...
fuse time set..
eta 5 seconds...
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jibabomb!!!!!!
the sampan blowed up into many splinttering pieces..... -
Using the harpoon to tgt the pirates' sampan?Originally posted by laurence82:the harpoon locked onto the pirates' sampan...
fuse time set..
eta 5 seconds...
4
3
2
1
jibabomb!!!!!!
the sampan blowed up into many splinttering pieces.....
1 mil $ aganist few hundred $what a total waste in money! -
u dun understand.... we can blow up whole fleets of sampans with a single missile!!! what military might!!! whoopeee!Originally posted by seachfun:Using the harpoon to tgt the pirates' sampan?
1 mil $ aganist few hundred $what a total waste in money! -
Agree, why waste $$$ of a misiile to whack simple boats? Podded MGs or cannons is sufficient.
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If there are simple boats, why whack them at all? Podded MGs and cannons cost money, flying the planes that carry the MGs and cannons also cost money. Let sampan be sampan.Originally posted by khyron1:Agree, why waste $$$ of a misiile to whack simple boats? Podded MGs or cannons is sufficient. -
because we want them to DIEEEEE!!! DIEEEE PAINFULLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!! KAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Precisely. Prirates usually attack in sampans, small fishing vessels and so on. They are usually not anywhere near the size of a missle corvette, gunboat or any large ships.
Why would the RSAF/RSN use Harpoons against them, as SBSK suggested? -
to make a bigger splash?Originally posted by laurence82:Precisely. Prirates usually attack in sampans, small fishing vessels and so on. They are usually not anywhere near the size of a missle corvette, gunboat or any large ships.
Why would the RSAF/RSN use Harpoons against them, as SBSK suggested?
kill chicken use bull knife -
Exactly....Originally posted by Poopie-Head:to make a bigger splash?
kill chicken use bull knife -
A C3 officer and a pilot can be head of a RSAF dept like FSD?
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SBSK talked about terrorism at sea. Pirates in sampans only attack to rob, but if international terrorists use them to hijack a ship, change the cargo to a few hundred tons of ammonium nitrate and then sail into singapore port........Originally posted by laurence82:Precisely. Prirates usually attack in sampans, small fishing vessels and so on. They are usually not anywhere near the size of a missle corvette, gunboat or any large ships.
Why would the RSAF/RSN use Harpoons against them, as SBSK suggested?
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Like this die liao... MUST upgrade RSN capabilityOriginally posted by sgdiehard:SBSK talked about terrorism at sea. Pirates in sampans only attack to rob, but if international terrorists use them to hijack a ship, change the cargo to a few hundred tons of ammonium nitrate and then sail into singapore port........ -
Easy, we modify a naval variant of AC-130...Originally posted by sbst275:Like this die liao... MUST upgrade RSN capability
In case,you all don't know, AC-130 is armed with a rotating cannon on the plane =D
Of course lah, it will be vulnerable to sampans which carry RPG/aa missiles..
IMAGINE SAMPANS GETTING RIPPED BY THIS MONSTER..MUAHAHAHA!!
Anyway, We just have to do some modifications on our C-130 Hercules...
if we wanna achieve the desired effect...
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Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:
Actually, a effective defence force to me means a credible air power
Easy, we modify a naval variant of AC-130...
In case,you all don't know, AC-130 is armed with a rotating cannon on the plane =D
Of course lah, it will be vulnerable to sampans which carry RPG/aa missiles..
[b]IMAGINE SAMPANS GETTING RIPPED BY THIS MONSTER..MUAHAHAHA!![/b]
With fighters from Russia, USA, Europe... C-130 Gunship is practically 1 that is needed -
i can imagine the look of the pirates when they see a Fokker-50 Enforcer around...
Using a 165,000 USD Harpoon to kill them is a big waste..
Furthermore, in comparison to helicopters which has side-mounted guns..
the AC-130 has a much longer range...can patrol all the way up and around
Up til south china sea..
or we can easily...
modify those planes from Youth Flying Club..
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Yah,totally agree that AC-130 Spectre gunships are the way to go for such problems.Can loiter around the target area far longer then any chopper.Using the Spectre Gunship with is Gatling guns,105mm Bofors cannon,40mm AGL.Which pirate see liao balls won't shrink?Unless they have a handful of Stingers or Iglas then it would be a different ballgame.
Anyway,wonder if you guys know this.Read in a book written by a Vietnam Huey Gunship pilot,when they are patrolling the rivers at night and spot sampans who are suspected VC,they dropped a few kegs of nails onto them and sink them.Although the nails were bought with the pilots's own money as they devise strange ways to identify if an area has VC.They even stuff a grenade into those glassjars,remove the safety pin and drop them out of the aircraft and when it impacts the ground and explodes,the VC start panicking and fires at them,they will go in full force.That is what i can proactive measures. -
Hehe, but i noticed quite a bit of an overkill...because last time i saw AH-64D Apache..
with just 30 mm cannon already can rip apart a person to shred..
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Contrary to your thinking, FSD is not an "air/sea/land" department.Originally posted by sbst275:A C3 officer and a pilot can be head of a RSAF dept like FSD?
FSD stands for "Future Systems Directorate", and their main job is to sit down and think.
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1st thing, I mentioned RSAF dept right? 1 of them is featured in Oct pioneerOriginally posted by Johnston:Contrary to your thinking, FSD is not an "air/sea/land" department.
FSD stands for "Future Systems Directorate", and their main job is to sit down and think.
Their head is someone big. And i do mean big.