16 Disember, 2011 19:24 PM

Unit Boustead Dapat Kontrak Mindef Bernilai RM9 Bilion

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Dis (Bernama) -- Unit kepada Boustead Holdings Bhd, Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd telah diberikan kontrak bernilai RM9 bilion oleh Kementerian Pertahanan.

Kontrak itu ialah untuk penghantaran enam unit generasi kedua "Patrol Vessels Littoral Combat Ships" (Frigate Class) kepada kementerian, kata syarikat dalam kenyataan kepada Bursa Malaysia Jumaat.

Niaga janji itu meliputi reka bentuk, pembinaan, peralatan, pemasangan, pelaksanaan, integrasi dan pengujian ke atas keenam-enam kapal itu, katanya.

"Kontrak itu bernilai RM9 bilion, akan dilaksanakan dalam tempoh tiga Rancangan Malaysia, 10, 11 dan 12," katanya.

Penghantaran pertama dijangka pada 2017 dan disusuli oleh yang lain setiap enam bulan selepasnya.

-- BERNAMA
sosej

and Typhoon can go Mach 2 ++ without afterburner is't?

1 more thing, our country will also receive 2 Sukhoi PAK FA when it is on duty right?

apa lagi boeing.. make a bid already

btw anyone saw Rafale segment in RTM1?

looks like all are rooting for Rafale... gudbai typhoon!

Rafale is extensively battle-proven in Libya. Typhoon also participated, but at a smaller scale.

no piccie but it's in CNN vid.

that thing looks like there's a mine sensor at the front and at the top mounted with a MG.

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Added on December 19, 2011, 10:40 am:Looks like a British Mastiff but....

dear TS,
i got an idea to proposed here,
i would like to see you or maybe someone who highly expert in our country's defence assets to list down the assets as well as the specifications that RMAF, RMA and RMN have especially about the aircraft and warships that Malaysia owns.

i know all of this information is written at Wikipedia but it would be more convenient if it can be posted here in lowyat forum, im sure that this act will bring good for people who is interested in these kind of knowledge like me.

maybe yinchet should do a post specifically for FAQs regarding Malaysian military

MiG-29N mungkin dinaik taraf

FIRMA aeroangkasa Rusia, Mikoyan sedia untuk memasang sistem avionik dan persenjataan termoden untuk pesawat MiG-29 milik TUDM.

KUALA LUMPUR – Firma aeroangkasa Rusia, Mikoyan dikatakan sudah bersedia untuk menaik taraf 16 pesawat pejuang MiG-29N Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) termasuk proses memasang sistem avionik, radar dan persenjataan termoden.

Cadangan menaik taraf pesawat tempur itu kepada versi Mikoyan MiG-29UPG merupakan opsyen Rusia kepada TUDM untuk memanjangkan jangka hayat selain mampu beroperasi setanding pesawat generasi baharu.

Menurut sumber industri, kos keseluruhan program itu dijangka tidak membebankan TUDM kerana ia melibatkan kerjasama strategik Rusia dengan industri aeroangkasa India, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

The LIMA 2013 in March will be very closed to Aero India in February and Avalon Airshow Australia in late February.

Hopefully, we are able to see the RMAF EC725 and the Airbus A400M for LIMA 2013.

BLue screen of Death, lolol,
no wonder they call it like that, if really happen when flying the jet, death gonna happen.

More pic on kilat eagle exercise.


Marines with Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, load a CH-46E Sea Knight aboard USS Makin Island here Dec. 14 to participate in Exercise Kilat Eagle, a bilateral training event between Marines and sailors of MEU and soldiers from the Malaysian Army. The Camp Pendleton, Calif., based 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed from San Diego Nov. 14 aboard USS Makin Island, USS New Orleans and USS Pearl Harbor and arrived in Malaysia Dec. 14 as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East regions. Photo by Capt. Roger Hollenbeck


Marines with Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, walk to a CH-53E Super Stallion aboard USS Makin Island here Dec. 14 to participate in Exercise Kilat Eagle, a bilateral training event between Marines and sailors of MEU and soldiers from the Malaysian Army. The Camp Pendleton, Calif., based 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed from San Diego Nov. 14 aboard USS Makin Island, USS New Orleans and USS Pearl Harbor and arrived in Malaysia Dec. 14 as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East regions.  Photo by Capt. Roger Hollenbeck


Marines with Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, load a CH-53E Super Stallion aboard USS Makin Island here Dec. 14 to participate in Exercise Kilat Eagle, a bilateral training event between Marines and sailors of MEU and soldiers from the Malaysian Army. The Camp Pendleton, Calif., based 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed from San Diego Nov. 14 aboard USS Makin Island, USS New Orleans and USS Pearl Harbor and arrived in Malaysia Dec. 14 as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East regions. Photo by Capt. Roger Hollenbeck


A CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (Reinforced) departs USS Makin Island here Dec. 14 to fly 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit personnel to Kuantan, Malaysia for Exercise Kilat Eagle, a bilateral training event between Marines and sailors of MEU and soldiers from the Malaysian Army. The Camp Pendleton, Calif., based 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed from San Diego Nov. 14 aboard USS Makin Island, USS New Orleans and USS Pearl Harbor and arrived in Malaysia Dec. 14 as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East regions  Photo by Capt. Roger Hollenbeck

sosej

Barrett 30th Anniversary M107A1 Rifle




Barrett Firearms Manufacturing was started by Ronnie Barrett in 1982.
sosej

I never understood the need for stealth fighters. It would only make sense if you have a "strike first" military doctrine. If you don't, the stealth fighter squadrons will surely  be a priority target when a hostile nation declares war. Which means most likely you would lose your fighters in the first day of conflict.

Instead of spending huge amount of money on stealth fighters, why not use it to improve the air defense capability instead? It's cheaper and it makes more sense if you are going for a defense only doctrine.

Yeah, maybe under the perfect conditions. Nothing in war is ever perfect. Most of the time you will be flying over a SAM site, knowingly or not. Kinda hard to shoot down a bogey, BVR or not, when your RWR is indicating SAM launch.

The Serbs manage to shoot down an F-117 during the Kosovo war. They were not even using a specific anti-stealth technology to do it. It was basically a combination of good intel, knowledge of equipment at hand and a barrage of SAMs with proximity fuse.

That was some time ago. I'm pretty sure there are more advanced systems to date.

Would you rather have a squadron of stealth fighters when at the same price, gets you maybe 2 full squadrons of generation 4+ aircraft with change for a decent air defense system?

I've always said it to my friends that always admire stealth technology!

"detection is always one radar away"

Even passive radar can read the presence of stealth,  I'm thinking in 10 years or so!

and we already have 3 sets of Vera-E radars..

confirm ke? i thought it was a rumour?

hehe I read somewhere that the raptor radar signature is just as small as bee!

so to radar guy, if you see a bee that moving in the speed of 1 mach and more be alert 

HDW U-216 May be on Navy's Shopping List



HDW U-216 conventional submarines (all images : Militaryphotos)


U-boats may be on navy's shopping list

Australia's ''future submarine'' could be a super U-boat built by a German company that made many of the submarines that nearly brought Britain to its knees in World War II.

HDW has released details of a concept design, designated the Type 216, for a long-range conventional submarine.

Experts say the design, based on the successful Type 214, is specifically targeted at Sea 1000 - Defence's future submarine program.

Rex Patrick, a former submariner and the director of Acoustic Force, said yesterday the information available indicated Type 216 would meet the requirements spelt out in the 2009 Defence white paper and there was no reason the submarines could not be built in Adelaide.

''I think they [HDW] have been working on the Type 216 for some time with candidates like Australia, India and Canada in mind,'' he said.

Another HDW design, the Type 209, is the basis for three submarines Indonesia is buying from Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering.

The $1billion contract for the three, two of which will be built in South Korea and one in Indonesia, was signed on December 20.

Defence has been considering a number of European submarines, including the HDW 214, the Spanish Navantia S-80 and French DCNS Scorpene, as replacements for the trouble-plagued Collins for some time. It has confirmed ''requests for information'' are to be sent to the three manufacturers.

Defence has also signed a contract with Babcock to research a land-based submarine propulsion test facility and a ''Future Submarine Industry Skills Plan'' is being prepared.

While Defence has acknowledged the European vessels offer proven designs and shorter delivery times than an Australian-designed submarine, the concern is they are too small to meet Australia's broad needs as outlined in the 2009 white paper.



The ''supersized'' HDW Type 216 may change that. It is more than twice the size of the three submarines that have just been commissioned by Indonesia.

Designated the Type 1400, the Indonesian boats will still be very capable. The first is expected to be in use by 2015 with the second scheduled for delivery in 2018.

There is grave concern delays in the Government's decision making process means there is no longer sufficient time to design and build an ''evolved'' Collins class boat by the 2025 deadline.

Former ASC chief executive officer, Greg Tunney, is on the record as having said ''serious concept work and definition studies'' should have begun in 2010.

HDW's Type 216 concept, the subject of a special report in the current edition of Jane's International Defence Review, overcomes the shortcomings of small European submarines and would take less time - and money - to build than a ''son of Collins'' analysts claim. At almost 4000t, 89m long and with an extendable minimum range of 10,400 nautical miles (19,240km), it outclasses the existing Collins in every way.

The evolved 216 would come with air-independent propulsion giving it a nuclear submarine-like ability to linger underwater in choke points such as the Straits of Malacca for weeks on end. It would have the ability to launch cruise missiles, carry a ''swimmer delivery vehicle'' for special operations and be extremely quiet thanks to propulsion design parameters and an outer shell that absorbs sound.

sosej

wow? another class of submarine for Singapore!