Su-30MKM Yang Perkasa

               

               
            Uh..Its rainy today. Pretty bored, there's not much that I can do right now. I'm tired of playing games, I've done eating, So I'm gonna make a 3rd post for this blog.  You have known the Su-30MKM in the first post, so now I'm gonna tell you further about it. Basically we all know that this plane is a fighter. It's superior, highly manouverable, have a wide variety of arsenal. Being the most effective air combat platform in this region there's more that it can do, and it's impressive. Here's the list below;

1. A mini tanker
2. An AEW (Airborne Early Warning)
3. Electronic warfare aircrraft (EW)

             First on the list is a mini tanker. Su-30MKM can act as a refueling aircraft. In case of a long range operation, the plane can be fitted with COBHAM 750 buddy refueling pod. Although refueling is not the primary role of this aircraft, it will show its usefulness in a real combat situation whereas the vulnerable RMAF C-130T dedicated tanker did not have the capability to defend itself from enemy aircraft behind enemy lines.

E2-Hawkeye AEW

Secondly, is an (AEW) or Airborne Early Warning capability. As you know, AEW systems were used to monitor aircraft from it's long range radar. Most AEW aircraft can detect target as far as 700km. It's NIIP N011M Bars radar had a range of 400km (longer than most fighter aircraft), so Su-30MKM can be a mini AEW aircraft.

Su-30MKM with ECM pods at each of
its wingtips.

And then, as a EW aircraft. This was just known recently that Malaysian Su-30MKM can conduct Electronic Warfare when their unveiled it's ECM pods on 80th ATM military parade. The pod is KNIRTI SAP-518 jamming pod. When equipped with two of those pod, Su-30MKM can jam enemy radar and destroy it's air defence system with Kh-31P anti-radiation missile. To date, RMAF is not the only airforce to possess such capability in this region. Australia has already operate 12 EA-18G Growler aircraft with dedicated EW role.

                           

                                                                                                                                                      

The Good Ol' M16 (A Noobie Story)

                         15 June of 2013 embark a very exiciting experience for me as I shoot a GUN for the first time... On 9 to 14 June 2013, I have attend RELA CORPS basic course. I'm felt very nervous actually because all I've think about is getting yelled at, go to marching all day, forced to woke up early and its dicipline, dicipline, and dicipline but there's one thing that keeps me motivated, it's the allowance. For RM267 per week, I think its worth all the hell march.. Before I attend this course, I didn't know much about the RELA CORPS. All I know about RELA is they will wear an orange beret. Their job is to guard a place and parking lots and that's all I know. A day when I was walking around the training facility with my friend, I've spotted a shooting range with the target 100m far. This one really opens my mind, I didn't know that RELA shoot like the army and police. Well guess what, 2 days later we were allowed to shoot.. I was like, "YEeHOWW" for the first time on my life I will shoot a GUN.

M16A1 with 30 round STANAG magazine on the table

                        A day before the shooting begins, we were taught on using weapons. In this case, its the good old M16. RELA Corps has been using the Vietnam-era M16A1 as their main service rifle, its oldschool, but its still looks badass to me.  M16 has been my favorite rifle since I was a kid. I still remember when I used to have a toy M16 and used to shoot it to my imaginary enemy when I was a kid. In the weapon class, a senior officers show to us the M16 and tell us the functionality of this weapon and on how to use it. The M16's were put on the table for us to examine it. We were allowed to touch it. And this has become the holy moments for me as I hold it for the 1st time. It's not heavy though, weighing in around 3 kg.

I'm detail number 11

 With the knowledge I have, I load and unload the mag and pull and push the charging handle like a pro. A trainer seems to be impressed and told me to strip the weapon. I was excited but seriously, I only know how to used it not field stripping it. But the trainer just keep telling me to try it, well here goes nothing. I know how to open it ( I push a small button at lower receiver ) took out the charging handle and that's it no further than that. Anyway lets skip to shooting part.
 And here goes, the day has come. I'm going to the shooting range to waste some bullets. Unexpectedly, someone had shoot beside me when I still loading the weapon. The sound is so damn loud, I was shocked. And embarassingly this make me scared to pull the trigger.

In the name of the mercyfull God I pulled the trigger. I was shivering, and God Almighty the sound is soo loud. I shoot using my right hand and it supposed to sound louder than the left ear but the its louder on the left ear of course. The sound may differ within range. In close range it sound like a big firecracker. In closer range when you shoot it, you will hear a metallic spring like sound. In the shooting range we were shooting like crazy, some people shoot the hills, some shoot trees instead of target. It was crazy and I'm questioning myself did they even know what the target is ?? It was fun but unfortunately we were not allowed to fire in full auto. Said that we were still youngsters that probably will kill someone. Yeah whatever....Okay thats it for this time, I'm going to tell more about the rifle tracing its history back to its AR-15 origins in future post...Later !!!

My 1st Post..Behold...The Sukhoi Su-30MKM Flanker

     Assalamualaikum kepada pembaca-pembaca, hari ini boleh dikatakan hari yang cukup bersejarah sikit kerana hari ini saya membuat post saya yang pertama di blog ini..
          Untuk post yang pertama, saya akan bincangkan tentang pesawat Air Superiority Fighter dan Multirole Aircraft Malaysia yang terunggul iaitu Sukhoi Su-30MKM (Modernizirovannyi Kommercheskiy Malaysia – Modernized Export Malaysia).

 ''Su-30MKM dikatakan pesawat tempur yang terunggul di rantau ASEAN sehingga memaksa Singapura untuk membeli F-15SG''..(WOW) 

                  Khidmat pesawat ini bermula apabila Malaysia menandatangani kontrak untuk 18 buah pesawat Su-30MKM pada tahun 2003 dari Russia untuk memenuhi keperluan MRCA (Multirole Combat Aircraft) negara. Pada masa tersebut, Malaysia hanya mempunyai 8x F/A-18D Hornet, 16x MiG-29N Fulcrum,10x F-5E Tiger II, 17x BAe Hawk 108, 8x Bae Hawk 208, dan 2x RF-5E Tiger II. Dengan adanya Su-30MKM, Malaysia boleh maningkatkan kemampuan yang sedia ada dan mempertahankan ruang udaranya dengan lebih jauh, cekap, dan efisyen. Pesawat ini juga unik, nak tau apa yang uniknya ? Sukhoi varian Malaysia ini dipasangkan enjin thrust-vectoring membolehkan ia dikawal dengan sangat mudah, mempunyai ketangkasan yang tinggi disamping membuat pelbagai manuver yang hebat. Antara manuver yang paling popular ialah Pugachev Cobra.
                                             
                           
                    Dengan adanya thrust-vectoring control, Su-30MKM mempunyai kelebihan pada pertempuran jarak dekat di udara. Kalau cerita pasal thrust-vectoring ni tak banyak pesawat yang memiliknya. Pesawat tersebut adalah antara golongan pesawat tempur tercanggih di dunia seperti stealth F-22 Raptor (USA),stealth Sukhoi T-50 (Russia). Dan juga pesawat tempur konvensional Su-30MKI (India punya varian), dan Su-30MKM. Terdapat banyak lagi sebenarnya tetapi setakat pada peringkat prototype ataupun technology demonstrator sahaja contoh seperti F-16 VISTA dan F/A-18 HARV. Malaysia membuat pilihan yang bijak untuk membeli pesawat ini.

Perbandingan radar, berat tempur diantara Su-30MK/ F-35 JSF/ F/A-18F Super Hornet

                    Su-30MKM dikatakan pesawat tempur yang terunggul di rantau ASEAN sehingga memaksa Singapura untuk membeli F-15SG. Mengapa ia dikatakan terunggul ?? Cuba lihat gambarajah diatas. Ia membandingkan 3 pesawat yang berkebolehan tinggi 1.Su-30MK  2. F-35 JSF 3.F/A-18F Super Hornet. Untuk pengetahuan anda F-35 merupakan pesawat ''steatlh'' yang terbaru dan juga bakal memasuki inventori Singapura. F/A-18F Super Hornet pula merupakan sepupu ''hebat'' pesawat hornet yang sudah pun berada di dalam perkhidmatan TUDM. Su-30MK hebat didalam 2 daripada 3 kategori diatas. Su-30MK cumalah model ''basic'', bagaimana pula jika dibandingkan dengan Su-30MKM ?? Anda google la sendiri....

Sebenarnya ada banyak lagi kemampuan yang dimiliki pesawat ini (kata kunci ''Multi Role'')....bahagian tersebut akan dibincangkan pada lain masa. Oleh itu sekian sahaja buat masa ini Waalaikumsalam dan salam patriotik everyone..