@yinchet

speaking of the procurement of sgpv and possible lekiu batch 2,

do you guys know why malaysia did't buy the Nakhoda Ragam OPV from Brunei?

It is the same type with Lekiu right? f2000 iinm.

except it is heavily downgraded compare to the Lekius.
why dont the gov just buy it? expensive?

Seriously i would like to know more about navy ship classification

What makes a ship a cruiser, a destroyer, a frigate, a corvette?

For now, I only realise the differences is the displacement of the ship

eg >9500t for cruiser, >6000t for destroyer, >3000t for frigate and >1000t for corvette.

But the Lekius of Malaysia was only 2200t. is it the armanent that made it a frigate?

Furthermore, is corvette = OPV?

How about normal patrol vessel?

If i take US as an example,
I see their cruiser is slowly phasing out and there is no replacement programme for it, is it possible we won't see anymore cruiser in 2decades time? So that means destroyer are slowly replacing cruiser.

And there is also no more future frigate programme to replace oliver hazrd perry frigate. is LCS now take the role of frigate?

For some, maybe they just think it is a ship, but there is so many things about it bothers me much.

hope yinchet and atreyu can answer this.

Sorry for my english.

Thanks for the answer.

Somehow i can figure out a little.
So it is depending on the gov as well to classify it as what type of ship.
No wonder there is anti air cruiser, anti sub destroyer, multi purpose blah blah blah.

About the enrollment into the defense force,
do people who hold degree/master that wear spectacles do them any good in the frontline of defense, i mean put then into battle ready situation.

I saw one Picture regarding Kedah-class OPV.

Does it really comes with Exocet and RIM-116RAM?

Surfed few wiki sites, all said it did not comes with both of the armanent above.

@yinchet

2~3 days ago i got replied in the SGPV thread.

It's about the NGPV potential SSM. Is it possible TLDM got other option as well?
Why dont just stick with Exocet?

How about harpoon? US dont want to sell to us?
Or it is going to retired too?
Btw I prefer if our TLDM use the same armanent like what JMSDF did to their ships.
But maybe it is hard right?

+1 on phalanx ciws.
RIM-116 ram? ESSM alone not enough?
Or it is more cost effective than essm to counter closer threat?

One more thing, Is tomahawk able to be vertical launched?
I only knew that harpoon can't.

Im surprised. Look how fat the tomahawk is.

Dafark man, feeling like wanna rage right now.
Mica? DS30m and Exocet for a 1.5B ship?
Seriously?

But this is too much man,
We pay for a watermelon but get one little green bean.

With Formidable class, South China Sea dispute around, not to mention shopping spree of Indon,
they can still sit down and songlap more.

Better scrap off the whole Gowind project and revive Lekiu batch two project.

I wonder how the top management of Navy react to this issue.

Media must do something.
Put some fire if possible
My initial thought of the new SGPV is it should be able to counter Formidable-class,
but seem it will be just like 30~50% buffed up lekiu with 2-3 times(i suppose, not sure) the prices.

then what ship gonna replace Bunga Mas?
auxiliary ship is very important bro..

Lolz, SGPV issue got so hot until soon-to-be-mighty-destroyer USS Zumwalt got no attention to it.

Poor Zumwalt..

But, what are navy fag opinions on this ship?

you dont say.
My mind blew when i saw the displacement gonna be more that 14k tonnes.
Almost like ballictic missile subs already.

The vertical launching system got so awesome that i dont even cannot imagine how it works.
Peripheral VLS? Dafuq is that.

CG(X) is too pricey, even DD(X) initially planned was to build 19 ships but only 3 units funded.
I cant imagine how many billions will be spended if all 19 DD(X) ships and some number of CG(X) were built.

Even 3 units DD(X) cost them the nation.

This post has been edited by ET-Force: Oct 30 2013, 10:36 PM

if in return fat leonard can repair the USN ship back here is okay enuf for me.

Dont you think they should order second bathh of OPV?
Complete all the name of Malaysia state, if cannot, do only for the state which has king only good also.
Hahhahha

But seeing the Kedah-class still not yet well equipped, they should work on that first.

madness.
MiG-29 right?