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MiG-29 ATR-42 (Maritime patrol) MiG-29 MiG-29 Yak-130 JF-17 / FC-1 Mi-24

Sea Shield 2019 video

Union of Myanmar Navy launched Combined Fleet Exercise-Sea Shield 2019 off Coco Island on March 18. “The naval fleet exercise is conducted every four months. The Combined Fleet Exercise-Sea Shield is launched every year. A team of navy seals conducted a drill in which they approached an enemy-occupied merchant ship on board the four fast combat boats and three helicopters, captured the ship,and rescued the hostages. Our exercise record becomes better. It is cooperated by the air force. Our mission becomes faster and more effective. War vessels performed exercises to prevent danger of enemy’s submarine and air strikes of enemy, open fire of anti-submarine mines and torpedoes for prevention of surprised attacks from fast combat vessels of enemy,” said Chief of Staff (Navy) Commodore Moe Aung. video courtesy to Popular News The ships performed exercises to prevent danger of enemy’s submarine and air strikes of enemy, open fire of anti-submarine mines and torpedoes for p...

Military Exercise - Bayint Naung

Artillery, Armour, Mechanized infantry and Close-in Air Support
Light carriers or Helicopter carriers A helicopter carrier is a type of aircraft carrier whose primary purpose is to operate helicopters. A helicopter carrier has a large flight deck that occupies a large part of the ship, which can extend the full length of the ship like HMS Ocean of the Royal Navy (RN), or only partway, usually aft, as in the Soviet Navy's Moskva class, the Chinese Navy's Type 0891A or the RN's RFA Argus. It often also has a hangar deck for the storage of aircraft. Pure helicopter carriers are difficult to define in the 21st century. The advent of STOVL aircraft such as the Harrier Jump Jet, and now the F-35, have complicated the classification; the United States Navy's Wasp class, for instance, carries six to eight Harriers as well as over 20 helicopters. Only smaller carriers unable to operate the Harrier and older pre-Harrier-era carriers can be regarded as true helicopter carriers. In many cases, other carriers, able to operate STOV...