U.S. seeks Asian partners for Global Hawk eye in sky

jofizo

By Jim Wolf






WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is proposing to share one of its most advanced reconnaissance aircraft with at least 11 countries in an effort to boost security in Asia and the Pacific.

A conference tentatively planned for April in Hawaii would discuss an informal regional grouping to support the high-flying, remotely piloted Global Hawk built by Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Pacific Command said on Wednesday.

"Our intent is to involve as many nations as possible in whatever capacity they want to be involved," the command's air component said in e-mailed replies to questions from Reuters.

Global Hawk entered service after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. It is designed to survey vast areas with near pinpoint accuracy from as high as 65,000 feet for up to 35 hours. The data can be fed from the $27.6 million aircraft nearly instantly to commanders on the ground.

With its advanced radar, optical and infrared sensors, it will become a key U.S. intelligence asset in Asia and the Pacific when it starts flying from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam in 2009.

Partner countries could allow alternative landing and launch sites for the Global Hawk.

The United States is initially pitching the Global Hawk consortium idea to Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Brunei and Sri Lanka.

Capt. Kristen Miller, a spokeswoman for Pacific Air Forces headquartered at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, said the list of invited countries could grow later.

Gen. Paul Hester, who heads U.S. Pacific Air Forces, told reporters in Washington last week he hoped to bring Global Hawk to the region next year to demonstrate its capabilities.

He mentioned its possible use to boost existing multinational arrangements for keeping tabs on the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

Singapore had requested a Global Hawk landing at Changi International Airport during the projected demonstration flight and talks were under way with Tokyo on showing it off in Japanese air space, Hester said.

Australia, which played host to a Global Hawk visit in 2001, is interested in the proposed consortium. If a formal proposal emerges "we would consider it," Air Commodore Graham Bentley, air attache at the Australian Embassy in Washington, told Reuters last week.


http://in.reuters.com/article/wo ... 071003?pageNumber=1

niceghost2005

Malaysia Ilse HADHARI tak ada peluang laaa nak mengoperasi menate nih...............
Peluang tengok...........ada ler kot.

IceMallet

Nampak yer singapoh dengan laju yer menadah pungkok kpd US demi Global Hawk..

powerwoot

peluang dapat tengok dan peluang kena spy adalah

Canaletto

Salah satu cara Sheriff Uncle Sam nak control this part of the world through sky melalui proxynya. :@

Sama gak senario macamana Bush bersungguh-sungguh untuk membangunkan missile program untuk Poland & Rep Chekz atas alasan untuk mempertahankan ruang angkasa negara tersebut dan sebagai rakan baru NATO tapi Putin sanggah sekeras-kerasnya kerana akan mengecilkan balance of power Russia dirantau itu nanti.

jofizo

ramai tul yg minat ngan cik su.......

niceghost2005

Originally posted by powerwoot at 4-10-2007 03:54 PM
peluang dapat tengok dan peluang kena spy adalah

Abis laaa Pak Lah n Najib kena SKODENG dgn UAV nie.
...........tak bley nak sorok lagik.

guyfawke

Control siapa? US alone or 50-50 in the sense that negara hos boleh tumpang sekaki buat intel?

matamata

Kalau takde benda ni pun kita dah lama kena skodeng, entah berapa banyak satelit US kat atas nun kita pun tak tau, lagi pulak PATI yang stg kat malaysia pun kita tak tau yg depa tu btl2 keje ke atau jadi tukang skodeng

Debmey

Consortium? What exactly is this all about? The article is very vague.

capable_warrior

Awat lah kita cepat melatah.  Macam mana kita nak serapkan teknologi kalau orang dah offer kita buat macam macam guna alasan Islam hadhari lah, kata sherriff lah macam macam.  Alangkan baiknya kita sangka baik aja kalau dah orang nak offer kita terima dengan 50-50 dengan kit pun dapat habuan dan faedah.  Kita ni tak leh lupa, waktu Vietnam duk eyeing rantau ini dan waktu konfrantasi siapa kawan kita.  Bayangkan mat salleh dari Australia, New Zealand, UK tu duk ronda ronda hutan kita supaya kita ni boleh hidup dengan pilihan kita.  Tu lah kita senang lupa.  Waktu UNOSOM keluar dari Somalia agak agak siapa yang memberi perlindungan kepada Force Commander UNOSOM dari Malaysia tu, belum lagi evacuation dari Liberia untuk pemerhati Malaysia.  Bukan nak suruh pi cium depa tapi kita haruslah pragmatic dan jangan cepat melatah.  Cepat melatah jadilah kita jagoh kampong dusun ajer dan tak dapat belajar, macam mana nak jadi pandai.

matamata

kita kalau blh mmg nak benda tu pun, dan aku yakin kerajaan msia pun akan buat offer. cuma benta tu tentu akan datang bersyarat yg mungkin akan menambat kaki kita. mcm pembelian fa18 jugaklah, mmg kita blh beli fighter tu dan mmg kita mengidam nak set up 1 squadron SH. tapi depa (US) taknak jual SH dgn peluru AMRAAM, jadi buat apa beli SH tanpa kelengkapan yg sepatutnya tul tak? BTW kita masih lagi nak mengecek menatang SH tu tapi senat US mestilah luluskan peluru AMRAAM. aku yakin msia akan melobi projek tu tapi terpaksa tolak kalau ianya menjejaskan atau menggangu gugat kadaulatan negara ini dan aku tak pikir US akan buat join venture tanpa syarat...   (saya orang baru, kalau salah tolonglah betulkan)

capable_warrior

Bukan kita aje yang kena syarat, Thailand and Singapore pun kena syarat pasal AMRAAM.  Jangan kata Singapore, Australia pun.  US ni belasah semacam ajer.  Tak percaya tengok Night Vision technologies Gen III, nak beli sikit punya susah walaupun Australia.  Kita harus ikut Australia, kalau dia tak kasi software code untuk Hornet dia pi guna kepakaran lokal yang ada untuk reverse engineer.  So bukan jadi masalah tapi kena usaha dengan gigih le.  Dah dia pun bukan bangang sangat sejarah 200 tahun merdeka mesti dia tahu apa yang dia nak dari kita kalau kita dapat access to Global Hawk.  Kalau tak percaya tanya RMAF Butterworth berapa banyak pesawat dia landing  untuk refuel on the way to Kadena AFB.

jofizo

selain dari AMRAAM radar AESA pun termasuk dlm pakej..........

matamata

Anyway I really hope that msia will apply for it, but must come with 'win win' situatin. benefit for both parties

Debmey

You want it, you buy it. What else you want? Barter with palm oil again?

Debmey

You want it, you buy it. What else you want? Barter with palm oil again?

far-eiq

barter with your arse

Debmey

you gay? why are there so gays in msia?

matamata

Originally posted by Debmey at 6-10-2007 08:40 PM
You want it, you buy it. What else you want? Barter with palm oil again?

Why not, got problem with that?