Taiwan’s Guardian Grounded

Taiwan has grounded its new fleet of US-made AH-64E Guardian attack helicopters for checks after a notice from Washington warning the model could malfunction.

It is just five days since Taiwan’s military displayed the new AH-64E Apache helicopters to the public in a high-profile ceremony presided over by President Ma Ying-jeou, who pledged to maintain a “solid defence force” despite warming ties with former arch-rival China.

Taiwan last month received the first six of 30 AH-64E Guardian helicopters bought from the US while the remainder will be delivered by the end of 2014.

The Taiwanese army is the first force outside the United States to introduce the E model, an extensively upgrade variant from the ever-popular AH-64D Longbow Apache. Beside Taiwan, other international operator of the Guardian variant include South Korea and Indonesia. The attack helicopter were part of a USD6.5 billion arms deal announced in 2008 that irked Beijing.

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17 New Boats For ESSCOM

By April 2014, ESSCOM would be receiving 17 new assault and combat boats which will be operated by the Marine Police. All of these boats are equipped with sophisticated radars to smoothen out security operations throughout Sabah’s east coast.

Out of these, five have already arrived in Lahad Datu. Each of these new boats worthed RM 1.2 million.Beside these new boats, two 26 meters patrol boats which could accommodate 10 people are also expected to be delivered next year.

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More than 100 fella have been caught on recent ops to flush out undesirable elements after the rumors were were being reported.

Nope, all of them are illegal immigrants

We prefer western block and without israel product in its.
so the a50 is definitely out of questions.
Erieye is favorable contender given it cost and flexibility to install on any suitable aircraft.

Yes we have.
a109luh and ec725 csar.

Highly doubt we can get submarines anytime soon.
mayb after sgpv project.
Though it is not wrong for navy chief to ask for more submarines.

Spend wisely is what we need the most.

Anyway I'm still hopefull on some low profile procurement.
with kasturi class slep completed, we can move on to upgrading kedah class.
Additional samudera class as fac look possible as well.
Mayb 6 asw heli can be sloted in as well.

Kedah class upgrade could be undergoing after kasturi class sea trails completed early next years.
6asw/asuw were meant for gowind class.
As for mpa is not that expensive anyway. We could get in 2-3 batches. If we can't afford in large no.

Could include join development like swiss deals.
Swiss deal were 22 units @ usd3.3bil.
besides gripen ng still under development.

That y advance sh ftw.
Suit us well but the only thing remains is weapons package.
kalau tak bagus then I dun think it will worth taking.

With hisapmuddin dun think we can achieve big thing.
hopefuly some1 come out with some clear direction we are going and what procurement we should get at least.

We too suffer from 97 crisis.
if not because of that we would have 18 hornets.
then a major mismanagement in kedah class project.
Later we were struck by 2007/8 golbal crisis cancellation of lekui class bath 2, mpss and even sph. Sigh.
Currently indon on spending spree so nice.

Visby is more like laksamana class.
hamina class is more suitable replacement

I dun think we need it.
Euro200mil will be better spend on getting more cb90s and some heli.

They still very green in managing an a/c.

We should get not just ec725 but also chinook

I still prefer government get more ec725 mayb in the mix of utility dan csar variant.
chinook is great for heavy utility workhorse for us.
Spec ops heli is very much needed too mayb we should opt for blackhawk instead.

Yes they still producing fresh ch47f
last july US army procure 177 new chinook.