Military
About a week since the U.S. Navy embarrassingly lost an F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter in the South China Sea, all the efforts to recover the jet is still ongoing. The most advanced jet, which crashed into the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on January 24 and then fell into the water, […]
... written on Feb 02 2022Who’s The Copycat Now? – U.S. Next Generation Destroyer DDG(X) Looks Very Much Like China’s Type 055
About 20 years ago, Chinese warships were a joke, far behind the Western and Russian – both quantity and quality. Not only their ships were smaller in size, but they were only equipped with short range missiles. Worse, in the 20 years between 1990 and 2010, only 10 destroyers were launched from Chinese shipyards, out […]
... written on Jan 19 2022Dozens of Ukrainian government websites, including the ministry of defence, were hit with a coordinated massive cyberattack on Friday (Jan 14). Hackers, suspected to be Russians, then left a message on the foreign ministry website – “Ukrainians! … All information about you has become public. Be afraid and expect the worse. It’s your past, present […]
... written on Jan 16 2022On Christmas Eve, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that the United States grew “arrogant and self-confident” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the NATO military alliance. Russian president Vladimir Putin, who once called the humiliating collapse “the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century”, was determined to bring […]
... written on Jan 04 2022Disgraced former Prime Minister Najib Razak said the Selangor state government, which is being ruled by the Opposition Pakatan Harapan, should not blame the federal government, which is being run by his own party UMNO, for the spectacular failure to manage the flood disaster. Najib argued that the state government has its responsibility too, in […]
... written on Dec 23 2021After 2 years of development, the state-controlled AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute, said a new wind tunnel capable of replicating the speeds and high temperatures faced by hypersonic missiles is ready. It was designed to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to 8 under a total temperature of 900 Kelvin (626.85 C) at a simulated flight altitude of […]
... written on Nov 23 2021Satellite images released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a US-based think tank, show that the construction of China’s third aircraft carrier is almost completed. It is estimated that the carrier – Type 003 – will be ready in 3 to 6 months. The images reveal that the installation of the carrier’s […]
... written on Nov 11 2021Everyone knows that once a car involved in an accident so bad that it injured some passengers, the car would not be the same again even after fully repaired. Imagine what would happen to a 9,300-ton, 353-foot-long (107.5 meters) submarine – USS Connecticut – that hit an “unknown” underwater object in the South China Sea, […]
... written on Nov 06 2021Najib Razak, the disgraced former Malaysian prime minister who has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined RM210 million after he was found guilty of all charges of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust (CBT), and money laundering in the 1MDB scandal, had infamously pledged to bathe the “Keris (Malay dagger)” with Chinese blood. […]
... written on Oct 27 2021On Saturday, China commissioned its first 10,000-ton class maritime patrol vessel – “Haixun 09”. It would be just another coast guard ship, until you notice that it is not only the largest civilian boat, but also is equipped with the most advanced technologies, including BeiDou Navigation Satellite System , China’s answer to the U.S.-owned GPS […]
... written on Oct 26 2021
