Anonymous said...
Re: Cambodia-China Reach 29 Deals [including buying military helicopters from China]
The Chinese-made Z-9 helicopters are for personal protection and personal conveniences. They are not for war front as one might think and the question is: what are choppers for? The answer is transportation, not for war in the modern day war. Helicopters won't dare to confront the fully armed military units, and they won't stand a chance with the modern Surface-to-Air-Missiles (SAM).
In a full scale war, fighter jets play vital roles. Long range missiles soften enemy target with multi-rocket launchers in breaking enemy's defensive line. Helicopters are for fighting small scale insurgency or unarmed protesters as we have seen in the recent time when many governments used helicopters to crash anti-government protests in the Middle East and so on.
The $195 million is enough for long range missiles that can do a lot of damages to Thailand and can act as the deterrence for Cambodian national security against any invasion from neighboring countries. When a country is poor as Cambodia, the leader should spend the money wisely on the defence of the country, but not in the defence of his own leadership.
Helicopters can support ground troops, eventually fielding dedicated helicopter gunships. A helicopter could be equipped with guns, grenade launchers, rockets, or even guided missiles, and provide rapid and wide-ranging fire against an adversary on the ground. Attack helicopters were more heavily armed and were given targets deep behind enemy lines, such as command posts and tanks, attacking them with missiles. The new strategy was also to fight at night, using advanced navigation and imaging systems. While helicopters have revolutionized infantry warfare, they have had less of an impact on other areas of combat. This is primarily because they are still relatively slow, vulnerable, and cannot carry the large payloads that fixed-wing aircraft can carry.
There are a lot of way to modernize the military, fighter jets, long range missiles, multi-rocket launchers, communication systems and so on. Buying new helicopters is not the priority of the modernized military, while some areas are still lacking, the number of men under arms, training, good medical care and education are more important than transportation for some VIPs from A to B.
So, the question is: can Z-9 helicopters bomb the Thai military targets?
Re: Cambodia-China Reach 29 Deals [including buying military helicopters from China]
The Chinese-made Z-9 helicopters are for personal protection and personal conveniences. They are not for war front as one might think and the question is: what are choppers for? The answer is transportation, not for war in the modern day war. Helicopters won't dare to confront the fully armed military units, and they won't stand a chance with the modern Surface-to-Air-Missiles (SAM).
In a full scale war, fighter jets play vital roles. Long range missiles soften enemy target with multi-rocket launchers in breaking enemy's defensive line. Helicopters are for fighting small scale insurgency or unarmed protesters as we have seen in the recent time when many governments used helicopters to crash anti-government protests in the Middle East and so on.
The $195 million is enough for long range missiles that can do a lot of damages to Thailand and can act as the deterrence for Cambodian national security against any invasion from neighboring countries. When a country is poor as Cambodia, the leader should spend the money wisely on the defence of the country, but not in the defence of his own leadership.
Helicopters can support ground troops, eventually fielding dedicated helicopter gunships. A helicopter could be equipped with guns, grenade launchers, rockets, or even guided missiles, and provide rapid and wide-ranging fire against an adversary on the ground. Attack helicopters were more heavily armed and were given targets deep behind enemy lines, such as command posts and tanks, attacking them with missiles. The new strategy was also to fight at night, using advanced navigation and imaging systems. While helicopters have revolutionized infantry warfare, they have had less of an impact on other areas of combat. This is primarily because they are still relatively slow, vulnerable, and cannot carry the large payloads that fixed-wing aircraft can carry.
There are a lot of way to modernize the military, fighter jets, long range missiles, multi-rocket launchers, communication systems and so on. Buying new helicopters is not the priority of the modernized military, while some areas are still lacking, the number of men under arms, training, good medical care and education are more important than transportation for some VIPs from A to B.
So, the question is: can Z-9 helicopters bomb the Thai military targets?
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Helicopters played an inconsequential role in World War II. However, World War II demonstrated that the helicopter could perform useful missions, The United States first used this new concept of warfare, soon named "air mobility," during the early years of its involvement in the Vietnam conflict. The Vietnam War was the first real helicopter war. The army quickly began refining its way of fighting as the war escalated.
Air mobility came at a heavy price, however. During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1973, the United States lost 4,869 helicopters to all causes (with more than a thousand lost in 1968 and another thousand in 1969). Fifty-three percent of these losses were due to enemy fire (including enemy attacks on airbases). The rest resulted from operational accidents. The high rate of operational accidents occurred largely because helicopters are prone to mechanical breakdown if not regularly maintained, and during a war, maintenance often suffers. Vietnam's heavy jungle canopy also made helicopter operations difficult, with few places to land a stricken helicopter. other countries soon followed. None could create large "airborne cavalry" units like the U.S. Army, but many countries copied the concept of using helicopters to ferry troops into and out of combat areas quickly, particularly when fighting rebel groups. They often used U.S. helicopters for this purpose. Great Britain and the Soviet Union usually chose to move primarily elite troops by helicopter.
Modern days the primary purpose of helicopters has been submarine hunting and over-the-horizon targeting. Helicopters hunting submarines can hover and lower a large sonar into the water using a winch and cable. They are far more mobile than a ship and are invulnerable to the submarine they are hunting. Helicopters equipped with radar are also used to detect targets that a ship's sensors cannot see because they are over the horizon. They relay this data to the ship and can also guide ship-launched missiles to their targets. This has helped change the role of surface warships from defensive platforms used to protect aircraft carriers, to offensive platforms capable of attacking other ships at long range. In addition, helicopters have proven their utility at clearing mines. By towing large sleds along the water, the helicopter can stay away from any potentially harmful mines.
(This is how the united state still use helicopters,do Cambodia buy helicopters for this purpose?).
It's good to have advanced technology to defence the country,but who going to fly those machines since Tear Banh was Vietcong and Hanoi's most trusted man in Cambodia.I am sure Tear Banh already arranged Viet who born in Cambodia to fly those machines.
Do you know that CAT Cambodian Air Traffic. It's not belong to Cambodia.It's belong to Thai company. Every year CAT make profit between 25-35 million dollars. What does it tell you about the national security since all the staffs are Thai? and why Hanoi's puppets happy to spend that amount of money while so many Khmer intellectuals are starving for jobs?
I doubt those helicopters are flown by Khmer pilots?
True Khmer
23 August 2011 9:41 PM
True Khmer, change your name to ah lop khmer. Better suits you.
True Khmer, change your name to ah pleur khmer. Better suits you.
I am very please to see my country cambodia become more and more strong everyday...I don't know why some people here put their country down? If can't help the country, don't just bad mouth and interfere...go and do something to help our country, we need high educated people from abroad to help rebuild our country today!!
Koh dach,
Apache Helicopter is the best! Cambodian government should consider buying, atleast 200 Apache helicopter better than chinese low tech craps..!
IT IS NOT THAT CAMBODIA DOESN'T WANT TO BUY THE AMERICAN MADE WEAPONS. THE AMERICAN DOESN'T WANT TO SALE TO CAMBODIA BECAUSE OF HUN SEN. THAT IS WHY HUN SEN TURNS TO CHINA.
I AGREE WITH AH 1:43AM STATEMENT. EVEN IF AH HUN XEN HAVE A STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US THEIR MUST BE A REASON TO BUY THOSE WEAPONS. EVEN IF THEY HAVE REASON THE US GOVT WILL PROBABLY REJECTED LIKE TAIWAN
Cambodia can't afford to buy US weapons...too expensive$$$$$$!!!!!!
Stop dreaming...you lucky china let you borrow some money!
Buying Z-9 is purely for personal use in the emergency, in the case of most dictators do when their days are numbers their compound were surrounded by angry civilian want to get revenge the helicopters will save their lives .
Helicopters won't be able to defend Cambodia from the invasion of the enemy, but fighter jets,long range missiles , multi-rocket launchers, fighter tanks do can defend the country from the invasion by the enemy.
Recently a lots of dictators going down by their own people, if you're a dictator you've the reason to worry about it.
Hun Sen have been Cambodia leader for a long time if he is not a dictator at least he made a lots of enemy amongst his own people he's step on a lots of toes to get what he wanted,god know what in the mind of his victims.
PM Hun Sen probably monitor Libya situation closely, and probably regret what he have done in the past, in the back of his mind what if he was in the situation of Libya leader what should he do to survive the revenge from the people.
History have proven the past Cambodian leader after falling from power got no where to hide accept Lon Nol was shelter by the U.S ,Hun Sen is riding on the tiger back he can't get off in the risk of eating alive by tiger accept hung on to power.
The buying Helicopter is not the coincident, it is the tool of survival or riding for freedom,but where he would go if his day have come, or never will , or matter of day who know.
Its good to replace new choppers with what cambodia having right now...
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