anyway the bx 2 isnt anybody's fault. if u want to blame, blame
the mindef, not ST. they were given orders on the dimensions and
specifications, and they had no choice but to adhere to it. i know
because i've talked to some of the designers before. i wld give
them commendations on giving the BX2 good armour protections,
manueverability, and firepower. sure the space needs to be
worked on, but there has to be drawbacks of everything. nothings
perfect. if u ask me tactics are more impt. its up to the commander
on how to make use of his assets, be it little or much, to its
maximum potential and capability. what happens on the ground
is v much discussed as that on the AOP. if you have served NS, i'm
sure you wld have experienced it before.
Simply put, no one is blaming anyone except lionnoisy. What I
was doing was using his own method of selective reasoning and
shallow logic to judge our own military to reveal just how flawed
and narrow his way of talking about the ADF is, given his own
criticisms can be applied, and in fact apply more to the
SAF.
Most rational people in here know that all militaries have their
problems and issues to work out, the difference is that there is a
lack of media coverage with the problems that the SAF face and most
of our media articles on our military is given a simplified,
positive spin. And it's not surprising lionnoisy tries to make it
as if they are true, with disasterous results that almost
invariably end with his defeat and quietly not answering his own
threads.
Also unlike our media, the Australians have free reign to be
more critical on their own military, hence you'll see just like any
any free media, a series of views being taken up on what exactly is
being done in their military. Also, politics play a very big part
in military affairs in which one camp will take the opportunity to
slam the opposing (ruling) party by trying to make their military
moves seem worse then it really is, and not surprisingly lionnoisy
uses their ammunition.
Hence lionnoisy's motive in here is more political then
anything. He isn't really interested in the REAL ADF or SAF or what
they are really at all. If you follow his topics in speakers
corner you'll realize he has something against Australia and
Australians, not because Australia did anything to offend him but
because he has what we call the Misplaced Patriot Syndrome.
Ie. he is angry that many Singaporeans are leaving Singapore for
Australia and sees himself on a mission to "expose" the dark side
of down under as a dysfunctional country that can't do anything
right, hence fufilling his own ego that the ones who abandoned
Singapore are the silly ones who can't see this "reality".
But unfortunately that simply isn't true.
And it's no surprise in here he turns his attention to the ADF,
using selective article copy-and-pasting to support his simplistic
and paper-thin push for the idea that the ADF is a force that
cannot even fight or do anything right. All the even in the face of
the fact that the ADF has actually been involved in ACTUAL COMBAT
in the war in terror and have aquitted themselves extremely well.
Something he is very quiet on.
Now besides his mission to "discredit" Australia (which has not
worked so far), he is also on a mission to "boost" the profile of
Singapore, as in painting our military with fantastic abilities and
as the innovator or many "world first" weapons. Despite the fact
that many of his ideas for our military do not work or are
logically flawed and many of our "innovations" are actually old
ideas and trival improvements on decades long concepts that others
have already worked on.
All of us who have been through combat vocations know that what
is advertised in our local papers is a lot of what we will call
wayang and frog in the well. Just look at how
long we advertised our AMX-13 SM1 tank as being "powerful" when it
was well out of date and could be easily destroyed but just about
anything on the battlefield.
In reality we know that a lot of the stuff advertised as being
"advanced" and "powerful" are a lot more down to earth and there
are a lot of problems that need to be ironed out. We are just like
any other military but for some reason lionnoisy deems it fit to
imagine we are some kind of superforce with equipment that is years
ahead of anybody else in the world. He goes so far as to compare
our current weapons projects to the next generation concepts being
developed by the Americans! Not surprisingly he once even tried to
compare our Mandai underground ammunition storage to the USAF's
Cheyenne Mountain!
In his world, only the SAF and whatever it does will work, and
any other nation have nothing but their problems. The idea of the
SAF as not being what it is described in our simple and
shallow media and the ADF as a force that has actually fought
in just about every major conflict since WW2 and aquitted
themselves as a competent and tought fighting force is lost on
him.
But for lionnoisy this is unthinkable. He wants to
trust the media, the parts that only agree with him that is. He
wants to believe that our army is as good as our local media says
(untrue) and that the ADF is only like all the negative articles he
digs up about them (even more untrue)
This Abrams thread is a prime example. If one looks at the
general press on the Abrams tank and the Australian Abrams as a
whole, the general outlook on these tanks are extremely favourable.
And even the people in here who know their stuff agree that the
Australians made a good choice in this. In fact this radio problem
is just a small issue that is not even caused by the tank being
faulty but by it being too advanced! And not to mention it's an
issue they are going to solve by giving their entire force a radio
upgrade, boosting the entire ADF's communication abilities!
For some reason lionnoisy has choosen to focus on a tiny problem
and blow it up, when actually it's good news for the ADF.
Going by his kind of selective logic, we should just junk the
entire Bionix project the moment we run into teething problems.
Going by his logic, given our SAR-21's troubled development history
and criticism by the troops when it was first introduced means that
this weapon in itself is totally junk.
But for some reason lionnoisy deems all good artices on the ADF
as propangada and deception without giving any reasons, saying that
this is because the Australians are afraid to show their weakeness,
but at the same time he mindlessly believes each and every single
negative article printed not because they make sense, but because
he wants to believe them.
So at the end of the day this bit is obvious, lionnoisy does not
come here as a soldier, but as a politician not too much unlike the
opposition politicans he is so angry about. He has nothing good to
say about the ADF not because it is really bad, but because by
virtue of his need to find fault with Australia he will blow up
each and every single issue they have.
And we all know that when it comes to military affairs,
politicans like lionnoisy can't even pour water out of a combat
boot with instructions on a heel.
Is it any surprise he screwed this Abrams thread up?