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 !

Poland - The poison shrimp !

Poland needs nuclear arms to ward off Russia : Walesa [Link]

Polish anti-communist icon Lech Walesa said Poland should procure nuclear weapons as a safeguard against Russia, which it blames for stoking the crisis in neighboring Ukraine.

“Poland needs to stand up to Russia,” the Nobel Peace laureate, who spearheaded Poland’s democracy movement and became its first post-communist president, said in an interview published Wednesday.

EU and NATO member Poland has been rattled by Russia’s actions in Ukraine, including its March annexation of the Crimean peninsula and suspected backing of rebels in the east.

Russian President Vladimir “Putin has been trying to intimidate us with his nuclear weapons, so why shouldn’t we have our own arsenal?” Walesa told the Rzeczpospolita daily.

“We should borrow, lease nuclear weapons and show Putin that if a Russian soldier poses one foot on our land uninvited, we will attack. Just to be clear,” the 70-year-old said.

Several countries including Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey currently host shared nuclear weapons on their territory under NATO.

But there is no tradition at the moment of borrowing or leasing the weapons.

Poland should speak up and say: “Mister Putin, we won’t let you make one step forward. Try it and you’ll perish, and so will we,” added Walesa, who as leader of the Solidarity trade union negotiated a peaceful end to Communism at home in 1989.

It is under his presidency in 1993 that the last Soviet troops left Poland. Six years later the country joined the NATO defence alliance.

On Wednesday, Poland began major military exercises involving 12,500 troops, including 750 from other NATO countries, which will continue through October 3.

Poland stages the Anakonda manoeuvres every two years but this time they “take on a special significance given the events in Ukraine,” Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said at the opening ceremony.

“It is important for NATO to show that we stick together,” added Torben Moller, a brigadier general from the alliance’s command centre at Brunssum in the Netherlands.

01 Red October 2014 !