awat tetiba byk troll sini?

I don't think the marine force will be on their own branch,
on my opinion this will be a small dedicated amphibious combatant force under the navy maybe with the strength of a brigade!

I do think that the PARA should be a division by now, as they are the jack of all trade!

LCS will begin operations in 2018, saya Hishammuddin

Posted on October 11, 2013, Friday

PORT KLANG: Malaysia’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) will begin operations in 2018 and will be the main asset of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) in safeguarding the country’s waters and sovereignty, said Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

He said six LCS will patrol the nation’s waters especially in areas of high economic activity.

At the same time, he said the Defence Ministry will also procure critical assets from countries which have a close relationship with Malaysia in the defence industry.

“Procuring defence assets this way is more cost effective and faster with lower risks as compared to developing an an indigenious (defence) industry,” he told a media group, including from Bernama, that was specially invited to tour two of the ships here yesterday.

The LCS were the KD Kelantan and KD Laksamana Tun Abdul Jamil.

Elaborating further, Hishammuddin said the LCS initiative was a short-term measure to achieve ‘self-reliant’ status in developing the local defence industry and that major development like the LCS by using local companies would continue to be a model for procurement of defence assets for the nation.

He said the ministry was also making efforts to procure important assets like amphibious landing ships, fighter aircraft and tanks.

Meanwhile, he said the ministry was also drawing up plans to further boost the country’s defence capabalities which among others included setting up a marine operations force and building a new RMN base in Bintulu, Sarawak.

As such, Hishammuddin said in Budget 2014, the ministry would try to get a higher allocation to enable the procurement of new assets and equipment as well as upgrading existing assets in all three branches of the armed forces with the priority given to the Eastern Sabah Safety Zone (ESSZONE). — Bernama

so,what would be the purpose of our marines?

apa kata PAC dibesarkan menjadi satu division.dalam satu division ada 3 briged yang berlainan iaitu briged marine,airborne dan air cav.untuk air cav,,,,,,,heli yang sesuai dan agak murah ialah mil mi-17 kazan

If you want to troll then goes elsewhere.
Seriously what a stupid question to ask.
A marine corps is for amphibious military operations.
These is a quality we always lacking off.

if u referring to me...it a simply honest no bullshit question

other branches are screaming for fundings n the top are thinking about amphibious operations usually associated with offensive capabilities...so,whats the deal?answer that

if u referring to me...it a simply honest no bullshit question

other branches are screaming for fundings n the top are thinking about amphibious operations usually associated with offensive capabilities...so,whats the deal?answer that

It was due to previous post which i assume it was troll.

The decision to have kor marines were due to current challenges we face terrorist threat have make us establish esszone. In the 1400km of shorelines to cover and thousand of island needed to be look after.
Which means paskal were not able to cope at it with limitation of its menpower.
Our marine kor should similar to our para.
With our limited fund we should look at our priority wisely.

that being said,shouldn't the forces focus on surveillance first n foremost...iinm they still dont have any dedicated platform to cover surveillance on that vast areas

heck,even a fleet of all weather-capable drones is a good start coupled with a few squadron of good interceptor

just my 2sen tho

You need response team to go there.
What the use of the drone or any surveillance asset if you dun have response team to neutralize the threat

vice versa hence good interceptor

its in the past but do correct me,the recent military op can be averted if they had been intercepted at sea

apa kata PAC dibesarkan menjadi satu division.dalam satu division ada 3 briged yang berlainan iaitu briged marine,airborne dan air cav