SHAH ALAM: AS I am too busy to go to Butterworth, posted below are some images of the aircraft taking off from Subang airport in support of Cope Taufan 16. The pictures are taken from the outside of the airport along the road to Kampung Subang.
Also posted, are images taken at Butterworth taken by the USAF PR team. I expect more pictures to be posted by the USAF this week once the exercise is fully geared up for the scenarios designed by the planners. As this year’s exercise is deemed low-key by RMAF, I do not think there is any point of me going to Butterworth even if I got some free time on my hand.
Its so low-key, that RMAF has not even released the list of its aircraft taking part in the exercise. From the USAF pictures, however, we could see that Butterworth’s resident fighter squadron, the 18th, is involved in the exercise.
Taking pictures of the aircraft is the reason to go to Butterworth. However as the two USAF fighter squadrons involved, the 13th and 44th, are regular visitors to Malaysia through-out the years, there is no incentive to take more pictures of them.
The most interesting aircraft from USAF is the E-3C AWACS. However it is not such a draw for me to spend a few days in Butterworth to take pictures of it.
As mentioned two more separate exercises are being held simultaneously in Malaysia this week weeks. Keris Strike 2016 should be officially launched today at Sirajuddin Camp in Gemas, Johor. The exercise between the 7th Brigade and the US Army, Pacific Command will end on Aug 6.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian/Indonesia joint exercise, Malindo Latgabma 2016 will be launched at Tanjung Gelang, Kuantan, tomorrow. The planning stage of the exercise started last week. It will end on Aug 3.
— Malaysian Defence.
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So, you'll be heading to other both ex, only one of them or... none at all?
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If I go probably Malindo, or none at all.
The Globemaster flew low and made a few circles over my area just now. Surprisingly, given its size -- the sound effect was very low.
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Yes the C17s are very quiet.
I'm more interested in the locally developed C-3 [or was it a C-2?] system that the RMAF employed during the previous Cope Taufan and whether it's also present at this year's Cope Taufan.
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I will ask RMAF about if I got the chance
Can i know what's a c3 or c2 is....i have no idea at all to even google it?
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Its Command and Control system abbreviated to C2, if its C3, the third C usually is Communications. Such system usually run on Computers so some might called it C4 but since everything nowdays are computerised, I personally believed its redundant to use a fourth C for that. Its part of the military's jargon.
Trafalgar, search this military jargon too..."FUBAR"...hehe
nimitz
Huhuhu......cld use tht in my conversations and people would be clueless
Trafalgar,i just joking. Sometimes when discussion goes technical, i also had a hard time finding out meaning of the military jargon used.
trafalgar,
1. ''SNAFU''
2.''BUFF'' [used to describe the B-52].
3. ''Million dollar wound'' [a wound bad enough to send you home to the ''world''].
4. ''The World'' [the U.S.].
5. ''Klicks'' [kilometres]. 1-5 are from the Vietnam war.
6. ''Gung ho'' - supposedly this term came from USMC troops who were in Shanghai before WW2.
7. ''Gooks'' - came from the Korean war.
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There's always for unlawful carnal knowledge...
Nimitz,
Personally I think the current use of military abbreviations and acronyms has reached ridiculous levels. ''FIBUA'' has become ''MOUT''. In addition to the long used ''POW'' we now have ''EPW''s; to ensure people understand the distinction. Older stuff like ''FEBA'' seems to have disappeared and of course RPVs became UAVs. To ensure we don't get confused ''MANPADs'' was largely replaced with ''Very Short Range Air Defence system] [V-SHORADs]. Which begs the question : if Igla or Stinger are '''Very Short Range Air Defence systems'' what is an Oerlikon GDF or an S-60? An ''Extremely Short Range Air Defence system'' [E-SHORADs]?
It seems that new abbreviations and acronyms are coming out yearly - led by the U.S. military. Soon, even the term ''rifle'' probably won't be used anymore; replaced with something silly like ''personal, weapon, individual'' [PWI]!
not to forget FISH and CHIPS...lol