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Military 101: Dedicated Light Combat Helicopter: Time For Malaysian Army To Have One?

Combat Helicopter Blue Thunder Military

When it comes to combat helicopters, one of our favourites would be the fictional attack helicopters from TV & movie, Airwolf and Blue Thunder. Between, one can rate Blue Thunder as a light combat helicopter considering that it is based on French-made Aérospatiale SA-341G Gazelles and has plenty of props bolted on for the movie. Image source: Harvard Film Archive.

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Military 101: Why Often Famous Military Themed Movies Get Military Tactics Wrong?

F-14 Fighter Jet Military Tactic Air Force

When it comes to military assets and tactics-themed movies, you will hardly remember movies like Top Gun as there is nothing much of tactics there except for Tom Cruise and the beautiful shots of F-14 Tomcats facing the Russian MiGs (which are actually Northrop F-5Es in camouflage). Image source: Wikipedia.

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Gaming 101: Chess – Deep In Strong Strategies & Tactics Thoughts

Chess Game Gaming

A long time ago before we started playing the well-known game of strategy, chess, we played checkers in our old neighbourhood as it was simpler to play. It was difficult to play chess initially as different pieces on the board have different modes of movement and also because there was no one to teach us the right way to play. Photo by Simón Arroyave.

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