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- 12,000km maximum range;
- 40 tons weight
- One 2.5 Megaton single warhead or up to three 400-600kt MIRVs.

A fighter jet crashed during a Children's Day air show in Hat Yai, Songkhla province, on Saturday. The pilot was killed.

Sqn Ldr Dilokrit Pattavee was killed when the Swedish-made Jas 39C Gripen fighter jet crashed on a runway at Wing 56 during the air show at around 9.27am while performing a surprise attack manoeuvre.

About an hour later, Thai media reported an airport fire engine overturned while rushing to put out the fire shortly after the crash. Hat Yai airport had to close to clear the runway. Commercial flights were diverted to Krabi airport while outbound flights were delayed. Authorities expect to be able to reopen the airport before noon.

Air Force spokesman Pongsak Semachai said a committee would be set up to investigate into the cause.

The "Royal Thai Air Force" Facebook urged the public not to share the video clips and photos of the crash out of respect for the victim's family and affected parties.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-ocha and ACM Jom Roongsawang expressed condolences to the pilot's family.

Thailand,  the only country in the region with the Swedish planes in its fleet, has acquired 12 Gripen C/D single-engine fighter jets since 2008 at a cost of nearly US$70 million (2.5 billion baht) apiece.

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However, I believe that the possibility of the emergence of confrontation is not large, first of all, the Israeli Air Force has just received F-35I fighter, so quickly into the operational possibility is not large, while the Russian S-400 mainly deployed in Latakia, For the protection of the Russian air force and naval base in Syria, Latakia and Damascus in a straight line distance of more than 300 km, for the S-400 ground air defense system that its detection range by the Earth curvature limit, microwave radar radar approximation So the radar can not detect the target below the horizon, regardless of whether the target is invisible, so from the radar line of sight in terms of, S-400 in Latakia almost only found Damascus more than 5,000 meters The Israeli fighter as long as less than this height will be able to avoid the Russian radar detection, while the Russian S-400 is currently equipped with a 48N6DM missile, its range is only 250 km from Latakia also can not hit Damascus.

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Thales and Lockheed Martin announce the contract award to deliver the Royal Navy’s new airborne surveillance and control system, under the ‘CROWSNEST’ programme. Lockheed Martin, who acts as the Ministry of Defence’s prime contractor for the Merlin helicopter, selected a new generation of the Thales Searchwater radar and Cerberus mission system to be fitted to existing Merlin Mk2s helicopters to provide the Navy with an airborne surveillance and control capability (ASaC).

Newly released pic shows J-11B carried the unnamed long range AAM in last year's Red Sword exercise.

"Nuclear weapons should be completely prohibited and destroyed over time to make the world free of nuclear weapons,"

In a commentary published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal likely to stoke anger in China, Bolton said Washington “could enhance its East Asia military posture by increasing U.S. military sales to Taiwan and by again stationing military personnel and assets there.”

In the commentary, Bolton also noted that the stationing of U.S. military personnel in Taiwan could help alleviate other problems in East Asia, including in Okinawa Prefecture, which hosts the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan.

Bolton also noted that the stationing of U.S. military personnel in Taiwan could help alleviate other problems in East Asia

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Its going to be a long 4 years...

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our last SNA 2017 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNln7gS4QQ

In this video, coverage of:
- Boeing Harpoon ER anti-ship missile

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ORIGINAL: raptorx7

Its going to be a long 4 years...

Because the last 8 years have been so stabilizing.......back to OP threads