Army Equipment

Infantry Foot Bridge

2008-01-26T11:57:00.000-08:00

Infantry Foot Bridge

Two Infantry Foot Bridge bridges will allow a company of soldiers to cross an obstacle in under five minutes. Used by the Assault Pioneer platoons of air-mobile and air-portable infantry units, this is a versatile and lightweight aluminium bridging system that can be carried on a four tonne truck. The bridge can be assembled quickly and quietly, and can take three fully equipped infantrymen at a time..

One Bridging Set comprises 8 bridge modules, each of 4.43 metres in length;
Spans dry gap 16 metres, wet gap 30 metres. A bridging set is carried by a single 4 or 8 ton truck.

Combat Engineering Tractor (CET)

The Combat Engineer Tractor (CET) is a tracked, armoured, amphibious vehicle equipped with a 100m winch cable attached to an anchor that can be fired by rocket. Once the anchor has bedded in, the CET can use its powerful winch like a grappling hook to climb steep slopes and riverbanks. Capable and versatile, CET's have proven invaluable in operations worldwide. The Royal Engineers use CET to clear obstacles, dig gun pits, prepare barriers and tow other vehicles out of difficult positions.

A new specialist engineer armoured vehicle, Terrier, will soon replace CET from 2008. Faster, more mobile and with more effective armour and mine protection than CET, Terrier will be operated by a crew of two – or may be operated remotely in particularly hazardous environments. Terrier will be fitted with day and night vision systems and, although (at 30 tonnes) twice as heavy as CET, it will be air-portable in C17 or A400M transport aircraft

Weight 17,010kg
Length 7.54m
Height 2.67m
Road Speed 56 kph
Road Range 480 km's
Fuel Capacity 430 litres
Engine Rolls-Royce C6TCR
Engine Power 320 bhp
Crew 2
Armament 1 x 7.62 machine gun

Tank Bridge Transporter (TBT)

The Unipower 8x8 TBT is an improved mobility transporter for the new BR 90 bridging system. It can carry one No 10 bridge or two No 12 bridges. The TBT can self load from, and off-load to, the ground.

Weight 35 tonnes when loaded (21 tonnes unladen)
Height 3.9m
Length 16.2m
Width 4m
Max Speed 80 kph
Engine Diesel
Crew 2

KAPORSATLAP

2007-09-15T07:15:00.000-07:00

GOENO TRADING

GOENO was founded in 1965. We started our business by using traditional cotton weaving machine with only limited workers. Along with the time, the products of GOENO have been developed together with the development of the Indonesian National Economy.
Having produced the quality tents for decades, GOENO has grown into a leading tent manufacturer company in Indonesia. GOENO is also the major tent supplier to Indonesian Army (TNI) and Police Force (Polri).
Since its establishment in 1965, GOENO has successfully positioned itself as a market leader in the industry due to its capability of consistently anticipating its costumers' needs.

*Mission
The mission of GOENO is to continuously grow and prosper for the benefits of its customers, employees, partners, and community. Therefore, the company deems Human Resources Development as a crucial part of this mission in an increasingly competitive business environment to further foster its professionalism, and to improve its
efficiency and productivity. GOENO will persistently apply new and innovative management and production methods to extend its leading edge in the tent product industry by endlessly improving its level of customers' satisfaction.

*Commitment
The management of GOENO strongly believe that professionalism is the key to our long success, and seriously regard our people as our main assets since they are the heart and soul of our business; they are the key ingredients in the formula of our success. As GOENO is supported by more than 500 qualified people, modern technology weaving cotton machines, and located in 4 ha land, we are confident to becoming a first class tent manufacturer that gives benefits to our customers, employees, partners, and the community.

Office / Factory
Factory :
Jl. Adil 65, Ngunut,
Tulungagung 66292,
Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Phone : +62 (355) 395 041
+62 (355) 395 355
Fax : +62 (355) 398 005
Website :http://www.goeno.co.id

Jakarta Office :
Bukit Gading Mediterania
Jl. Boulevard Bukit Gading Raya, Block A22,
Kelapa Gading Barat,
Jakarta 14241, Indonesia
Phone : +62 (21) 4586 6455
+62 (21) 4585 4847
Fax : +62 (21) 4586 6454
+62 (21) 4584 4076

www.goeno.co.id

SUBMARINE

2007-09-15T07:10:00.000-07:00

A submarine is a watercraft that can operate underwater. Military submarines were first widely used in World War I and are used by all major navies today. Civilian submarines and submersibles are used for scientific work at depths too great for human divers.

The word submarine was originally an adjective meaning "under the sea". Some firms who make diving gear but not parts for submarines, called their work "submarine engineering". "Submarine" as a noun meaning a submersible craft originated as short for "submarine boat" and older books such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea always use this term. Also, some people simply say 'sub' instead of saying the entire word 'submarine'.

Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of any vessel. They range from small one- or two-man vessels that can examine the sea floor for a few hours to the Russian Typhoon class, which can remain submerged for 6 months and carry nuclear missiles capable of destroying multiple cities. There are also specialized submarines such as rescue submarines (like the DSRV or Priz) and tiny one-person human powered subs intended for competitions between universities. An older device for use in underwater exploration, salvage, construction and rescue is the diving bell. A specialized form of submarine capable of extremely deep dives is the bathyscaphe.

Submarines are typically referred to as "boats" even though most modern submarines should technically be called "ships". The term U-Boat is sometimes used for German submarines in English. This comes from the German word for submarine, `U-Boot`, itself an abbreviation for Unterseeboot ('undersea boat').

The vertical structure, usually located amidships, houses communications and sensing devices as well as periscopes. In modern submarines it is the "sail" in American usage ("fin" in the Royal Navy). A submarine's "conning tower" was a feature of earlier designs: a separate pressure hull above the main body of the boat that allowed the use of shorter periscopes.

RUDAL

2007-09-15T07:08:00.000-07:00

Avibras Industria Aeroespacial - Air-to-Ground and Surface-to-Surface Defence

AVIBRAS Aeroespacial is a manufacturer of air-to-ground and surface-to surface weapon systems including artillery saturation rocket systems, 70mm air-to-ground systems and fiber optic multi-purpose guided missiles. Avibras is a true system house with expertise in R&D, manufacturing, integration and tests, as well as in integrated logistic support for the supplied systems.

AVIBRAS ASTROS II SYSTEM

For more than two decades, AVIBRAS' Artillery Saturat

ion Rocket System (ASTROS II) has been the most versatile in its class, with achievements unmatched by its competitors, being combat-proven in two major Gulf Wars.

Most of the ASTROS’ outstanding features are still exclusive:

Capability of firing five different types of rockets, from the same launcher vehicle, and delivering a massive blow on targets located from 9km to 90km away
The best area coverage with eight types of warheads and unmatched accuracy
The same basic vehicle platform for the launcher vehicle, ammunition supply vehicle, mobile workshops and fire control unit thus providing total interchange ability

AMMUNITION FOR TRAINING PURPOSES

The AVIBRAS Subcaliber Training Ammunition 70mm (AV-TS 09) is designed to help trainees in the assimilation of the operational, handling and storage procedures of the ASTROS II rockets at a very low cost.

AVIBRAS SKYFIRE ROCKET SYSTEM

The AV-SF-70 SKYFIRE Rocket System is a recent product developed by AVIBRAS, combining battle proven and state-of-the-art aerospace technology.

The system is composed of a new family of 70mm (2.75in) rockets, using composite propellant, wraparound fins and powerful warheads. It has superior accuracy compared with the existing 70mm systems. This means increased effectiveness in air or land deployment, with a range of up to 12,000m.

For land applications, the rockets can be launched from a towed trailer AVIBRAS 36 Tube Multiple Launcher AV-LM-12/36. Due to its reduced dimensions and weight, the trailer can be towed by a light 4x4 or ¼t vehicle and, for operations on inaccessible sites, it can be transported by helicopter (Bell UH-1H, or equivalent) and by assault aircraft or even small embarkation.

Also for land applications, the rockets can be launched from the ASTROS Hawk Systems, which is self-propelled and highly mobile. The ASTROS Hawk System is an Artillery Saturation Rocket System to support light forces through the use of high mobility launcher vehicles and a variety of ammunitions. It saturates an area of 200,000m² in less than 12 seconds with a range of up to 12km, thus exploiting the surprise factor.

The AV-LM-12/36 and the ASTROS Hawk Systems provide the command with the possibility of:

Increasing, significantly, the available organic fire support in determined combat situations
actuating, with massive firepower, during the critical phases of an operation, an inversion of unfavorable tactical conditions
accessing high mobility fire support system capable of being employed in all types of operations, particularly special operations

FOG-MPM - FIBER OPTIC MULTI-PURPOSE GUIDED MISSILE

Avibras FOG-MPM is a missile for multiple employment purposes, particularly against combat vehicles and fortifications. It has a modern guidance system based on data transmission by fiber-optic cables, offering operational efficiency even under severe battlefield conditions.

AV-VBL 4X4 - LIGHT ARMORED VEHICLE

The AV-VBL is a new member of Avibras' growing family of military vehicles. The AV-VBL is a 4t to 12t high mobility multiple purpose armored vehicle.

The vehicle's internal space is the best in its class, and its modular approach allows the vehicle to be configured to perform multiple tasks such as support, police patrol, ambulance, and C4IR (Command, Control, Communication, Computation, Intelligence and Reconnaissance).

The vehicle can be easily airlifted by C-130 cargo aircraft. The AV-VBL is already the standard platform to the support vehicles and C4I of Avibras' recognized Astros II System.

AV-VB4-RE - LIGHT ARMORED RECONNAISSANCE VERSION

The AV-VB4-RE is also a new member of Avibras' growing family of military vehicles. The AV-VB4-RE presents excellent mobility, speed, range and outstanding 'under armor' internal space.

Its modular approach allows the vehicle to be configured as reconassance, observation, radar and weapon system. The vehicle can also be easily airlifted by C-130 cargo aircraft.

AVIBRAS Industria Aeroespacial SA Rodovia dos Tamoios, Km 14 PO Box 278 CEP 12300-000 Jacareí, SP Brazil Tel: +55 12 3955 6000 Fax: +55 12 3951 6277 Email: govsales@avibras.com.br URL: www.avibras.com.br

AIRCRAFT

2007-09-15T07:07:00.000-07:00

Britain’s acquisition of two new ‘pocket supercarriers’ - HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales - is in the utmost national interest.

* These new vessels will secure Britain’s international role and leadership for decades to come, equipping the Royal Navy with extensive ‘blue-water’ capacities, and providing the nation with increased ability to lead the European Union’s emerging foreign, security and defence policies - as well as the dexterity to shape the political and diplomatic decisions of allies and foes alike.

* The Royal Navy is one of only three true Blue Water navies in the world - the other two are the US Navy and the French Navy

The new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy will be named HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales

Britain is to gain two new aircraft carriers as part of a multibillion pound defence spending package being finalised by the Treasury and Ministry of Defence.

Ministers are hoping that a long-awaited announcement giving the final go-ahead to the carriers, estimated to be worth between £3.5bn and £4bn, will come before the House of Commons breaks for its summer recess next Thursday.

Approval of the carriers is expected to safeguard 10,000 jobs at shipyards across the country, including in Rosyth, close to Gordon Brown’s parliamentary constituency. But the prospect of France taking a big construction role in the project appears to be fading.

London and Paris have been discussing whether to deepen co-operation and looked at the option of sharing construction with French shipyards. However, senior Whitehall insiders expect only limited scope for sharing ship-building.

Talks will continue on shared procurement and support. One person familiar with the negotiations said: “We will only collaborate as long as it doesn’t delay progress and there are clear cost savings.”

BAE Systems and VT Group, which will take on the work in a risk-sharing alliance that includes Thales of France, Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary, Bab and the MoD, will merge their shipbuilding assets following the decision.

The merger would create a £1bn company with docks in Portsmouth and on the river Clyde in Glasgow. Some 60 per cent of the work on the carriers – by far the biggest warships to be built in Britain – will be shared between yards in Scotland and the south and north-west of England.

During prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Mr Brown signalled that a decision was close. “I hope we will be able to make an announcement soon on the aircraft carriers.”

The future of the Royal Navy, he said, was best safeguarded by the levels of investment the government was putting in.

The MoD and the Treasury appear close to finalising the defence budget for the three years covered by the forthcoming comprehensive spending review. Mr Brown is expected to use the carrier announcement as evidence of the importance the government attaches to security and the fight against international terrorism.

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Britain needs a new generation of aircraft carriers

New aircraft carrier

In 1982 the United Kingdom came perilously close to a national humiliation. Only months before the Argentine Junta ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands, the government sanctioned the eventual end of the Royal Navy’s remaining aircraft carriers. HMS Hermes was to be decommissioned and HMS Invincible was to be sold to Australia under Defence Secretary John Nott’s 1981 Defence White Paper. It was a time of renewed hostilities between the Western democracies and the Soviet Union, and British defence posture was becoming increasingly atlanticised in the sense that the principal concern was the monitoring and surveillance of Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the North Sea and North Atlantic. In a lurid way, the Argentine invasion of British territory came at the right time; had Argentina’s generals waited a few months longer, they might have claimed the islands without any fear of British armed reaction. For without aircraft carriers, the Royal Navy would have been powerless to act; the Falkland Islanders would have been forced to render to the demands of a military dictatorship, and Britain’s naval credibility would have been lost. The Soviet Union would have certainly noticed as well that Western Europe’s strongest military power could not even defeat a weak South American dictatorship. The war in 1982 showed that a maritime nation like the United Kingdom, with numerous security-defence interests all over the world, needed to retain the ability to project power anywhere and at any moment. The main lesson learned from the conflict was that Britain required its aircraft carriers, without which it would be hobbled, and repressed into the second rank of the world’s powers.

HMS Hermes fought in the Falklands War. She was the last of the Royal Navy's Centaur Class aircraft carriers

Although Britain subsequently sold off its one remaining and elderly conventional carrier, HMS Hermes, it ploughed ahead with the completion of two new but smaller aircraft carriers to complement HMS Invincible. The first, HMS Illustrious, was launched in 1981 and deployed in the aftermath of the Falklands campaign; the second, HMS Ark Royal, was completed in 1985. All three are in operation with the Royal Navy to this day, although HMS Invincible has been mothballed and placed on extended readiness - and is unlikely to ever see service again. And at 22,000 tonnes, these are small aircraft carriers, designed for a primarily anti-Soviet, anti-submarine role. While they can pack a formidable punch, they are dwarfed by the 92,000 tonne supercarriers of the United States Navy and the 40,000 tonne nuclear aircraft carrier of France’s Marine Nationale. With the end of the Soviet Union, and progressively larger British military deployments abroad in the 1990s, the small Invincibles became increasingly insufficient for meeting national security-defence requirements. This fact was acknowledged when the newly elected government of Tony Blair came to power in 1997 and implemented the innovative Strategic Defence Review a year later. Declaring that Britain needed a renewed fleet of substantial aircraft carriers and support vessels, it was posited that British Armed Forces had to be re-calibrated for expeditionary warfare. The subsequent lessons of British interventions in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq have only reconfirmed the nation’s need for the ability to deploy armed forces overseas. While the government’s acquisition of these potent new vessels must be lauded, planning has taken far longer than anticipated, resulting in the withdrawal of the Sea Harrier naval airgroups and the deactivation of one existing carrier, leaving the nation with limited naval capabilities for at least the next six years. This will change, of course: the project to build the Royal Navy’s largest and most powerful surface warships in history is now nearing completion. The Queen Elizabeth class will be of a unique size; smaller than America’s Nimitz supercarriers, yet considerably larger than France’s Charles de Gaulle, the new British vessels might be described as ‘pocket supercarriers’, and will displace about 65,000 tonnes each. They will be armed with approximately fifty high-tech warplanes and helicopters, advanced radar and sensors, and consequently will increase Britain’s deep oceanic power projection capabilities and global reach enormously.

Aircraft carriers are, in the modern world, the most important piece of politico-military apparatus a country like Britain possesses - perhaps even more significant than our strategic nuclear deterrent. Command of the sea in a globalising and more dangerous world remains vital. Seventy percent of the world’s population lives near the coast; many of the world’s capital cities are in littoral regions; over ninety percent of Britain’s imports and exports go by sea; and much of the world’s trade flows through strategic channels and other choking points like the English Channel, the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, Drake Passage, the Strait of Malacca and the Gibraltar Strait. The ability to deploy naval power in these regions can have enormous political impact, and keeps the seas open for international trade, which remains vital for British and allied countries’ prosperity. As such, the aircraft carrier’s role is thoroughly strategic; it helps to structure the global system, providing a platform for the upholding of the Western democracies’ primacy and the global economy. On a national level, it acts as the pivotal platform for Britain’s Armed Forces - the entire naval fleet is anchored around it. Not only is it the offensive weapon par excellence, it is also the best defensive weapon in any navy’s arsenal. It provides a mobile aerodrome - a few floating hectares of sovereign British territory - readily deployable to almost anywhere in the world where there is water deep enough to sustain its hull, removing the need for basing or overflying rights - as is the case with the air force. And the mere movement of a carrier into a trouble-spot can have a deterring and calming influence on adversaries and warring groups. In short, any country wanting to uphold a global role and have the means to defend itself and its interests must retain aircraft carriers.

Tank

2007-09-15T06:56:00.000-07:00

88 (some sources state 87) of these Soviet tanks were supplied between 1938 to 1939. Most were formed into the 1st tank regiment that was assigned to the newly forming 200th Infantry Division, the only motorized infantry formation in the Chinese Army at that time. Weight: 10.5 tons. Armament: One 45 mm gun and one bow mounted MG. Some had a second MG for AA purposes.

Click here for a short history of the T-26 provided by wargaming.net

By 1941, well over 12,000 units of this tank were produced, making it the most numberous vehicle in the Soviet inventory at that time. The Germans destroyed and captured huge numbers of these tanks when they invaded Russia. Many of these were converted into tractors for artillery or self propelled guns. The series ceased entirely in 1941 when the Germans overran most it this tank's manufacturing facilities.

French FT-17

A Number of Renault FTs were acquired by the warlord Chang Tso-Lin in the 1920s and served in his private Manchurian Armay against other warlords. After his assassination by the Japanese, his son permitted the incorsporation of the tanks into Chang Kai-shek’s National Revolutionary Army. Here they are seen in operation around 1929 in northern China.

France had dispatched a small of Renault FT's to Vladivostok in 1919, and these were later passed an to the Manchurian Army under Chang Tso-Ling. The continuing border wars between Bolshevik, White Russian, Chinese and bandit forces led the Soviets to deploy most most of their small inventory of refurbished FTs on the Manchurian border in the mid-1920s. The Manchurian Army purchased 14 more Renaults in 1924-25, and these were used in the fighting with the warlord Wu Pei-fu in 1926. In 1929, the Renaults were nominally attached to the 1^st Cavalry Brigade of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army (NRA). During the fighting with the Soviets over the Chinese Eastern Railway in the autumn of 1929 the Soviets brought up a company of MS-1 (T-18) light tanks to counter the Renaults, but a tank-vs-tank confrontation never materialised.

By 1930 the NRA had acquired in various ways about 36 Renault FT-17 tanks and some 24 Carden Loyd machine gun carriers, apart from its armoured train fleet.

The Japanese Army seized nearly all of Chinese/Manchurian Renaults in 1931 when they occupied Manchurian, adding to a small inventory of Renault FTs and NC 27s they had purchased 1922 (? NC 27). In Japanese service, they were known as the Type 79 Ko-Gata. The Renault FTs and NC 27s were used to form two tank companies in 1925 (? NC 27). in 1931, a section of Renaults was sent to Manchuria to operate alongside the Armored Car Platoon of the Kwangtung Army.

In the 1920s, two sections of Renaults were stationed in French Indochina, one in Saigon and the other in the citadel at Hanoi. During the China crises of 1927 the Saigon company was sent to Shanghai to protect the French concessions. It was joined latter in the year by the US Marine Corps Light Tank Platoon, equipped with the Six-Ton Tank. The Marine tanks were used to guard the rail line between Shanghai and Tientsin; and in 1928 two more French FT tank sections arrived to serve in Tientsin. Japan dispatched some of its Renault FTs and NCs to Shanghai in the same role. The Americans departed in 1929, but the French and japanese remained. The Japanese NC 27s, called Type 89 Etsu B, were used during the Shanghai incident of 1931. The Japanese seized the three sections of the French China Light Tank Company in the late 1930s; they were later turned over to the puppet Manchoukuoan Army which used them into the 1940s. The section in Hanoi remained there until 1945, and fought against the Japanese in that year when they occupied the citadel.