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Multi-Mission Maritime Helicopters Frigates/Corvettes Infantry Support Weapons Anti Access/Area Denial Chinese Coast Guard Count VOLUME 27/ISSUE 3 MAY 2019 US$15 ASIA PAcific’s LARGEST CIRCULATED DEFENCE MAGAZINE CHINESE COAST GUARD MULTI-MISSION COUNTERING IEDS MARITIME HELICOPTERS SINGAPORE COUNTRY FOCUS FRIGATES/CORVETTES INFANTRY SUPPORT WEAPONS ANTI ACCESS/AREA DENIAL www.asianmilitaryreview.com ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE OBSERVE, DECIDE, GUIDE INTELLIGENCE ONBOARD PEMA 2M © Safran - ESO / L.Calçada / Daniel Linares - © Safran - ESO / L.Calçada Daniel Linares SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE, INTELLIGENCE ONBOARD Day after day, you face critical challenges. The products and services developed by Safran Electronics & Defense, whether civil or military, deliver the technological superiority, effectiveness, reliability and competitiveness you expect. We’re with you every step of the way, building in the intelligence that gives you a critical advantage in observation, decision-making and guidance. You can count on Safran Electronics & Defense, your strategic safran-electronics-defense.com partner on land, at sea, in the air and in space. : @SafranElecDef safran_IntelEmbarque213x286_VA.indd 1 09/04/2019 16:57 Contents MAY 2019 VOLUME 27 / ISSUE 3 Stephen W Miller examines the latest 06 machine guns for infantry squads. HMAS Ballarat’s embarked Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopter conducts a forward passenger transfer with HMAS Rankin inside Cockburn Sound, Western Australia during early 2018. (RAN) RAINING LEAD 12 20 24 FRIGATES FILL SUB HUNTERS ARE THE MARITIME GAP IN DEMAND THE NEED FOR SEAD Budgets in Asian Pacifi c can be more Andrew Drwiega reviews multi-mission Anti access / area denial (A2/AD) has justifi ed for ‘workhorse’ frigates and maritime helicopter developments and become a hot topic in the Asia Pacifi c corvettes, says Tim Fish. requirements in Asia Pacifi c. region as Dr Tom Withington explains. 28 32 36 42 SINGAPORE’S ROADMAP FOR BLAST COAST GUARD NEXT GENERATION ANALYSTS WITH MUSCLES PROTECTION FORCE Countering IEDs is a skill that COLUMN The Chinese Coast Guard is a has been hard won and JR Ng reports on plans to Columnist Ben Ho takes a look force to bew reckoned with and should not be forgotten as modernise Singapore’s tri-service at Malaysia’s Light Combat has not stopped growing as Grant Turnbull discovers. capability to 2030 and beyond. Aircraft requirement. JR Ng reports. | MAY 2019 | 03 Index of Advertisers ASELSAN 15 Editorial COLLINS AEROSPACE 17 CONTROP 29 DSEI 39, COVER 4 D&S THAILAND COVER 3 GENERAL ATOMICS COVER 4 IAI 13, 19 HEEDING LEONARDO 5 LIMA 41 THE WARNINGS NEXTER 25 PBS VELKA 27 he Easter Sunday multiple suicide bombing attacks against civilians at prayer in churches and SAFRAN COVER 2 others beginning their day at tourist hotels mainly around Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, SRC 11 claimed the lives of at least 310 people and injured over 500 at time of writing. The attack represented not just an atrocity in that country but ranks as one of the worst attacks in the TAR IDEAL 23 Tannals of modern day terrorism. UTC AEROSPACE 9 Unfortunately Sri Lanka is no stranger to mass slaying. In 1990 the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) massacred *ENTIRES HIGHLIGHTED WITH RED NUMBER IS between 600 and 774 unarmed police offi cers on 11 June 1990 during their separatist war with the Sri FOUND IN SUPPLEMENT Lankan government. While the 1990 attack was carried out by a known terrorist organisation, the LTTE again demonstrated Advertising Offi ces surprise and determination by attacking Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo’s international France/Spain airport, on 24 July 2001. The attack destroyed or damaged nearly half of Sri Lankan airlines fl eet of Stephane de Remusat, REM International intercontinental aircraft and had a deep effect on not only the Sri Lankan government and people, but Tel: (33) 5 3427 0130 also commerce. Tourism plunged by around 15 percent by the year’s end. E-Mail: [email protected] Germany In contrast, the Easter Sunday attacks were carried out by an almost unknown terrorist organisation, Sam Baird, Whitehill Media National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), a splinter group of the Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamath (SLTJ), which Tel: (44-1883) 715 697 Mobile: (44-7770) 237 646 was reportedly not considered to be a highly ranked terrorist threat. 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LMGs/ARs are organic a successful defence and destructive power and physiological to the squad/small unit and are integral attack. Their positioning impact of the machine gun. to its tactics. andS direction is a primary concern of These weapons fall into two groups small unit leaders at squad, platoon, the medium or support machine guns Crew Served Machine Guns and company level. Their accurate and light machine guns (LMG) or squad Medium machine guns (MMG) are belt and sustained fires suppress enemy automatic rifles (AR).
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