Myanmar Defence Forum

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actually we have..!! sub training in India , Pakistan , Russia for years and coastal going with North Korea's Yugo class ..

By experience, he meant first hand experience by acquiring and maintaining submarines. BN also have been training the submariners for almost 10 years in various countries but still we can't claim to have submarine experience until recently.

 

[~Phoenix~]

Burmese army recruits female soldiers as it struggles to tackle rebel groups
Poor human rights record of Burmese 'Tatmadaw' armed forces gives rise to concerns that women recruits will be abused

Burmese rebels from the All Burma Students Democratic Front North, near Laiza, Kachin state, Burma in 2012. The Burma army is recruiting female soliders to help tackle ethnic rebels Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA


Kate Hodal in Bangkok

Wednesday 16 October 2013 15.59 BSTFirst published on Wednesday 16 October 201315.59 BST

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If you're a single female between the ages of 25 and 30, 1.6 metres (5ft 3in) or taller and weighing less than 59kg (130lbs), then the Tatmadaw – Burma's military – may be looking for you.

Once limited to working only as nurses in the military, Burmese women are now being actively recruited by the country's ministry of defence, according to an advert in the state-run Myanmar Ahlin newspaper, which stresses that successful candidates will be spared from serving on frontlines and instead be offered posts as second lieutenants.

A reviled entity now synonymous with human rights abuses and military coups, the Burmese army was once well respected for leading the country to independence from British colonial rule. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, was himself a general and is revered as the heroic "true father" of Burma.

Today the Burmese army is believed to be one of the largest in the region and manages a budget of $2.4bn, or 12% of total government spending – roughly four times what the country spends on health care, according to official figures.

Reformist president Thein Sein has made it an apparent priority to sign ceasefires with the country's many rebel ethnic groups, but has struggled to make any headway in the Kachin ethnic area, where a 17-year ceasefire broke down in 2011 and where fierce fighting, including the military's use of fighter jets, took place earlier this year.

This is the first time that women have been offered such posts with the Tatmadaw, but a military draft adopted in 2011 – when Burma officially moved to quasi-civilian leadership after nearly 50 years of military rule – allows for women between 18 and 27 to be drafted in times of national emergency.

Women have sometimes been press-ganged to work as porters, says Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch, who warns that, given the army's abysmal rights record, the new recruits could find themselves sexually abused or harassed.

"Because there has been a culture of this army physically and sexually abusing women in the field as part of operations, where both rank and file soldiers have been involved in rape and other forms of sexual abuse against women – such as seizing women to porter goods and then raping them at night – then I would wonder … whether senior officers would view these women professionally or try to take advantage of them," Robertson told the Guardian.

"I think a woman would have to be quite brave to be among the first batch of recruits."

 

[Aung Zaya]

Burmese army recruits female soldiers as it struggles to tackle rebel groups
Poor human rights record of Burmese 'Tatmadaw' armed forces gives rise to concerns that women recruits will be abused

Burmese rebels from the All Burma Students Democratic Front North, near Laiza, Kachin state, Burma in 2012. The Burma army is recruiting female soliders to help tackle ethnic rebels Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA


Kate Hodal in Bangkok

Wednesday 16 October 2013 15.59 BSTFirst published on Wednesday 16 October 201315.59 BST

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If you're a single female between the ages of 25 and 30, 1.6 metres (5ft 3in) or taller and weighing less than 59kg (130lbs), then the Tatmadaw – Burma's military – may be looking for you.

Once limited to working only as nurses in the military, Burmese women are now being actively recruited by the country's ministry of defence, according to an advert in the state-run Myanmar Ahlin newspaper, which stresses that successful candidates will be spared from serving on frontlines and instead be offered posts as second lieutenants.

A reviled entity now synonymous with human rights abuses and military coups, the Burmese army was once well respected for leading the country to independence from British colonial rule. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, was himself a general and is revered as the heroic "true father" of Burma.

Today the Burmese army is believed to be one of the largest in the region and manages a budget of $2.4bn, or 12% of total government spending – roughly four times what the country spends on health care, according to official figures.

Reformist president Thein Sein has made it an apparent priority to sign ceasefires with the country's many rebel ethnic groups, but has struggled to make any headway in the Kachin ethnic area, where a 17-year ceasefire broke down in 2011 and where fierce fighting, including the military's use of fighter jets, took place earlier this year.

This is the first time that women have been offered such posts with the Tatmadaw, but a military draft adopted in 2011 – when Burma officially moved to quasi-civilian leadership after nearly 50 years of military rule – allows for women between 18 and 27 to be drafted in times of national emergency.

Women have sometimes been press-ganged to work as porters, says Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch, who warns that, given the army's abysmal rights record, the new recruits could find themselves sexually abused or harassed.

"Because there has been a culture of this army physically and sexually abusing women in the field as part of operations, where both rank and file soldiers have been involved in rape and other forms of sexual abuse against women – such as seizing women to porter goods and then raping them at night – then I would wonder … whether senior officers would view these women professionally or try to take advantage of them," Robertson told the Guardian.

"I think a woman would have to be quite brave to be among the first batch of recruits."

lol why u bring such idiots propaganda in here..!? that's totally useless..
first
1. it's clearly stated these female soldiers no need to go war.. just for supporting team.. And we don't need female troops to trackle the rebels .
2. it's not new.we're recruiting female officers for many areas since years ago..
3. They would die if they know how many female expert want to join army in every year..

 

[rome333]

Comon STOP throwing dirt at each other!

 

[Aung Zaya]

They look pretty skinny? Are they well fed in the army? Oh,wait.I forgot that Myanmar is a 60-70 bn worth economy.Sorry,my bad.

Lol what do u expect from Female cadets..!? Muscles like man..!?
Plz check your own female cadets first..

 

[Aung Zaya]

A new 50HMG produced by Myanmar.
Licensed from CIS 50HMG

 

[Prince of Dorne]

Lol what do u expect from Female cadets..!? Muscles like man..!?
Plz check your own female cadets first..

Don't you find it funny when Bangladeshis of all people show braggadocio and act all gangsta on internet ?

 

[alaungphaya]

ဒီမွာဘာထူးေသးလဲေဟ့

 

[Aung Zaya]

ဒီမွာဘာထူးေသးလဲေဟ့

ဟီး ျမင္တဲ့ အတိုင္းပဲ bro မင္ class ေရငုတ္ ၂ စင္းထူးတယ္

 

[alaungphaya]

ကီလိုဖစ္ပါေစဗ်ားးး

 

[Aung Zaya]

ကီလိုဖစ္ပါေစဗ်ားးး

သြားၾကည့္တာေတာ့ မင္ ပဲ

 

[Aung Zaya]

New Era of Myanmar Air Force
The Myanmar Air Force operates a fleet of 20 G 120TP (+10) training aircraft equipped with Genesys Aerosystems EFIS IDU-680. The pilot training will be supported by a CBT System and one G 120TP FTD

 

[~Phoenix~]

"Know safety,no pain
No safety,now pain"
Coolest line of the day lol

 

[Aung Zaya]

"Know safety,no pain
No safety,now pain"
Coolest line of the day lol

so what..? have been never seen such safety slogans in ur country..?

 

[Place Of Space]

သြားၾကည့္တာေတာ့ မင္ ပဲ

What you guys are talking about?