Kusje Supersonic February 10, 2015 Share February 10, 2015 Hong Kang liao! Someone is signing 1206 as expensive as his hdb flat liao... http://m.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31359091 Haha. Probably sitting in some rival country/company's lab getting dissected now. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocus Turbocharged February 10, 2015 Share February 10, 2015 (edited) Not sure if this is posted before, but and someone said something about software and hardware... I only remember I heard this comforting words during NS regarding our potential adversaries when we complained we are doomed to have an idiot sabo king in the platoon: "For every clown you have in the army, the enemy has one too" http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/anti-tank-rocket-blast-malaysia-claims-fourth-victim-soldiers-wife-dies Last heard the soldier was dismantling the bombs and selling them as scrapped metal. (How much are they paid again?) You must have a very low IQ to bring a potentially deadly bomb into a home full of children and a pregnant wife! Edited February 10, 2015 by Pocus 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrosszero Turbocharged February 10, 2015 Author Share February 10, 2015 (edited) The "lao peng" among us may remember that there was a blind explosion in Pasir Laba Live Firing Area back in 1997, and how it happened. Edited February 10, 2015 by Macrosszero Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrosszero Turbocharged February 10, 2015 Author Share February 10, 2015 Here's a satellite photo of what CNB looks like when the US Navy travelling circus comes to town: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocus Turbocharged February 10, 2015 Share February 10, 2015 (edited) The "lao peng" among us may remember that there was a blind explosion in Pasir Laba Live Firing Area back in 1997, and how it happened.There are many blind explosion in the older days. One of the famous ones is the one the cock officer took the blind from the butt area to the training shed. He fiddle with the blind when it exploded, blowing his own arm off and killing another nsf. The worst thing that can happen to a soldier is to die even before a war started. And in this case, a Singaporean son is gone needlessly. Edited February 10, 2015 by Pocus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vega Turbocharged February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 Yesterday, Feb 10th, mark the anniversary of the exchanged of first U2 pilot been shot down by USSR with Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher, known as "Rudolf Abel", who had been caught by the FBI and tried and jailed for espionage. Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. The missile that shot down the plane. S-75 Dvina aka SA-2 If I am not wrong, SR-71 was developed because of this incident. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithchue 5th Gear February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 anyone into military trucks? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ake109 6th Gear February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 (edited) Anyway looks-wise, the old Lockheed sure beats its modern stealth counterpart hands down for yours truly Not a fan of the F35 from most angles. The YF-23, that is the most beautiful, along with the XB-70. Was hoping before the J-20 was unveiled that the PLAAF would have tried to clone the YF-23. Edited February 11, 2015 by Ake109 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 anyone into military trucks? This? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrosszero Turbocharged February 11, 2015 Author Share February 11, 2015 This one, antique liao. Both father and son could have ridden the same kind of tonner during their NS days. What I do remember is that it has no power steering - you can really see the driver sweat during parking manuevers. No air-con also. But not bad lah, conti truck okay! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGCMmadman 6th Gear February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 Wah memories of the mar see lee 3 tonner.. sleeping in it otw to range n training. Sliding from end of the bench.. to the other wen driver jam break... seeing soldiers injured wen dismount by jumping of the back.... after tis 3 tonner... SAF got the fiat tonner.. tat also alot memories... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 (edited) This one, antique liao. Both father and son could have ridden the same kind of tonner during their NS days. What I do remember is that it has no power steering - you can really see the driver sweat during parking manuevers. No air-con also. But not bad lah, conti truck okay! nobody wanted to be the vc, all keng rushed behind besides bo ling kee, the roar of the engine could wake up the dead. gosh it sure brought back memories... Edited February 12, 2015 by Vulcann Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolicense Turbocharged February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 nobody wanted to be the vc, all keng rushed behind besides bo ling kee, the roar of the engine could wake up the dead. gosh it sure brought back memories... at least can boast we have been chauffeured in a conti vehicle before mah... back then how many people have ridden in a Mercedes before? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 at least can boast we have been chauffeured in a conti vehicle before mah... back then how many people have ridden in a Mercedes before? a dazed clown in his lala land mode jumped down from the tonner....& promptly landed spread-eagled face down. heng he didn't injured himself but became a butt of a joke for us for the rest of the course. superman, superman we would taunt him. he went on to win best pt hor... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 From CNA: Airbus wins US$221 million US Army order for 41 helicopters POSTED: 13 Feb 2015 06:35 The U.S. unit of Europe's Airbus Group was awarded a contract worth US$221 million to build 41 more UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopters for the U.S. Army, the Pentagon said in its daily digest of major contracts on Thursday. People are silhouetted past a logo of the Airbus Group during the Airbus annual news conference in Colomiers, near Toulouse January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau WASHINGTON: The U.S. unit of Europe's Airbus Group was awarded a contract worth US$221 million to build 41 more UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopters for the U.S. Army, the Pentagon said in its daily digest of major contracts on Thursday. The contract, which runs through July 31, 2017, marks a modification of Airbus's existing Army contract, and covers production of 41 more helicopters and associated radio communications systems. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal, editing by G Crosse) - Reuters (source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/airbus-wins-us-221-millio/1655540.html ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrosszero Turbocharged February 13, 2015 Author Share February 13, 2015 Interesting that the US themselves don't have anything that fits the bill. I wonder what happened to Bell and Sikorsky? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear February 13, 2015 Share February 13, 2015 (edited) Interesting that the US themselves don't have anything that fits the bill. I wonder what happened to Bell and Sikorsky? it seemed airbus bought over the company and renamed it. agree it is very rare they buy from outsiders. a few cases I know: (a) sea king for their marine 1 presidential chopper; (b) m249 saw from Belgium; (c ) beretta m9 from italy Edited February 13, 2015 by Vulcann Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrosszero Turbocharged February 13, 2015 Author Share February 13, 2015 Also the AV-8A and AV-8B Harrier, and B-57 Canberra. But the Sea King was actually of American origin. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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