Hobby : Navy 2040 - A New Chapter

Navy Force Structure 2040

6000T Multi - Mission Combatant ( 2030 )

29 January 2015

Hobby : Navy Future Multi - Mission Combatant (2025) Version 2.0

6000T Multi - Mission Combatant (2025)

Navy Force Structure by 2040

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20 January 2015

Hobby : RSN Future Multi Mission Combat Ship (2025)

Multi Mission Combat Ship

RSN Force Structure 2040

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19 January 2015

Old Blogger

Good Bye

14 December 2014

Same Location, Different Time

The Orchard Road Presbyterian Church

The same church view from another direction

I have stopped going to Orchard road since when the building featured
on the right was still leased to the Singapore Institute of Architects !

Same location but different time !
Gosh, just realized the Specialist Shopping Centre has been demolished ! (notice the Pavilion cinema on the right in the top photo? The Pavilion gave way to the specialist shopping centre and the latter gave way to a spanking brand new building in its place [Link]  )
I still have vivid memories of exiting from Somerset MRT station,
crossing the traffic junction just diagonally in front of it to get to centrepoint.
It seems like only yesterday ...

Have not been getting around for more than a decade ! Partly due to family and also things and places and people just don't feel familiar anymore ...

[Link] here

01 December 2014

Hobby : Navy 2040 (Air - Sea Defence)

Air - Sea Defence ( Light Aircraft Carriers - Mobile Airbase) Version 3.0

Air - Sea Defence : A Sustainable Force

Relinquishment of the Paya Lebar Airbase by 2030 reduces our fighter airbases to only two and having no strategic depth, given the reality of land mass constraint. An alternative is to envision our seas (EEZ and SLOC) as forward defensive extension inhabiting our maneuver elements from the armed forces. Bringing our defenses forward by equipping a force structure that enables a tactical maneuver doctrine from our combined arms of Air, Sea and Land services. By way of strategic defences utilizing the sea as forward extension of land. 

Unmanned / Autonomous Systems augment the reduced quantity of manned assets by way of sensor fusion and big data real time monitoring 24/7.

With the closing of the PLAB, the overall manpower head count is transferred in stages to the future mobile airbases in the form of two Light Aircraft Carrier. With a ramping up in recruitment of Navy personnel and re-training of Air Force personnel to orientate them towards naval aviation, the increase in recruitment of naval personnel with a corresponding decrease in NS full-time and reserves man power, decommissioning of units such as the soldier intensive airfield defence squadron and airfield maintenance squadron, etc. from the Air Force, net manpower numbers remain constant and sustainable.

During normal peace time, only one light aircraft carrier is operating with the Sea-Air Defence Task Force (ASDTF)

ASDTF Combat assets on rotation

The other light aircraft carrier is either in maintenance dock or operating/training in near seas well within our land base air cover. Only when there is imminent flash point will the two light aircraft carriers embark on mission(s).

The Air Sea Defence picture is not complete without including the air assets from the Air Force.

Total Air Defensive Shield

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07 October 2014    

The Hong Kong we love Is Lost ( 完 了 )

HK : When to run and save your lives [Link]

It is sad, but i agree with this blogger ...

Caught between a rock and a hard place {my caption}

I saw this off my phone yesterday but it wasn't the first of many reminders that Beijing will be absolutely uncompromising. Beijing will pay any price for Hong Kong to behave because if HK doesn't China's leaders fear the whole nation would become unstable. Never mind that this will set back to square one all effort invested in wooing Taiwan to return. To Beijing that is only a question of when, the how isn't important. Beijing assumes in good time China will be irresistible. They seems intoxicated by this fallacy.

So what's the point for pointing out the obvious. The reason is the safety of the students.

Beijing will not hesitate to repeat the 1989 incident if it proves necessary. The question is how and when it might happen. I think the moment they sack CY Leung {or he resign}, those who cherish their lives should quickly run home. You have made your point, there is no point getting shot by the para military police. HK police will not fire on Hong Kong students {香港人不杀香港人} but the Chinese troops will not hesitate. {emphasis mine}

Beijing doesn't even bother to try very hard to resolve the stand off. It's laziness is appalling. Therefore you can conclude that Xi Jinping may even be able to make political capital out of his opponents in a crack down on Hong Kong.

At the very least, CY Leung should have enough tactical sense to start writing letters to the parents of these students to persuade them to bring their kids home.

The trouble with Hong Kong leaders is they are not leaders but mere managers. To Hongkongers they could never step up to the plate and lead, neither could they impress Beijing.

As for the tycoons they will not try to do their part to save the place. They are only interested in safeguarding their wealth. Some of this wealth would be lost to the mainlanders. KS Li was a canary in the coal mine for those who were watching and understanding the oracles.

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I will miss the Hong Kong that we are so familiar with ... 

But the spirit of Hong Kongers must live on !

Good Bye HK.

Hong Kong You Are Not Alone

 

01 Red October 2014 !