ever since china has becoming a big douche nowadays,i've ruled out their product liao
unless small weapon system ("small" being "tactical-level". manpads, ATGM, armored patrol vehicle, etc),then i dun mind
at operational or strategic level (fighter aircraft, MBTs, medium to long range SAM), better find elsewhere

While pentagon planners are hoping to save money by scrapping thousands of mine resistant armor protected
(MRAP) vehicles bought only few years ago for over US$25 billions, defense contractors could bear heavy losses
if those vehicles are not maintained in operational use somewhere around the world. Wall Street Journal Robert Tita
reports that the Pentagon plans of scrapping 13,000 Used MRAPs would cut into replacement-parts business at Navistar,
Oshkosh and BAE.



The Army, Marine Corps and other services intend to keep about 11,000 MRAPs. About 6,500 trucks are still being
used in Afghanistan, but the bulk of those will return stateside by the time the U.S. military withdrawal is completed
late this year. About 6,000 trucks—many of them, older models used in Iraq—already have been returned to the U.S.,
Another 1,600 or so are in Kuwait. Many of these vehicles will be scrapped, if new users aren’t found.

The Pentagon wants to give away 13,000 MRAPs “We’ve notified our friends and allies that we have MRAPs available
and if they want them they can have them,” Alan Estevez, deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology
and logistics said. Interest from foreign militaries has been tepid as these ultra-heavy vehicles that have operated in
Afghanistan have been worn out by the harsh terrain.


This ex-military Caiman MRAP will be used to transport Fort Lee SWAT teams.
Local police bought the vehicle from the U.S. Department of Defense for just $2,000.

problem with US is to get parts is alot of paperworks even though the parts is available
Alot of background check and alot of WHY WHAT HOW etc?

europian? Nak kasi duit, here you go

Going, Going, Gone

Marhalim Abas February 2, 2014 budget, Malaysian Army

SHAH ALAM: Before I go further, let me wish a Happy Lunar New Year to all those celebrating. Anyhow, I initially thought I will be hunkering down for the holidays and there was no need to update the site. But then came the reports that Malaysia was buying the Airbus Helicopters Tiger attack helicopter.

With various readers asking me about the report, despite the answers I gave in the comments section, I believed I need to respond to the questions in a separate post.

The original story about the Tiger came from the French defence magazine Air-Cosmos website. As the story was in French, I had to use Google Translate to read it.

The story was basically headlined “When Will Malaysia Signed the Contract for Tiger HAP?”. In short, it stated that Malaysia had asked for six Tiger helicopters to be delivered in early 2014. However, despite readying six Tiger HAP (support protection) from the stocks of the French Army Light Aviation (ALAT) there was no word when the contract will be signed. Nonetheless, the report said that Airbus Helicopters was confident that the project will continue in the near future as Malaysia was a good customer for its products.

Reading the story, I immediately understood what was reported – we gave an RFP and they responded. However, we have not followed up with a contract and therefore the project was pending.

As I had responded in the comments, the project will not proceed as no money was made available for it as I had mentioned previously in my review of the 2014 budget. Yes, I had posted stories on RMN and RMAF following the announcement of the budget but had not done so for the Army.

It is not for the lack of trying but for the lack of material. Like his predecessors, Army Chief Jen Datuk Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor is reticent to talk about specific platforms. When met two weeks back, Raja Mohamed Affandi said “No” three times to all of my questions regarding the 2014 budget. On why, he answered: “Tiada Fulus (No Money).

Following the publication of the Air-Cosmos story, I checked again with Jen Raja Mohamed Affandi and again he replied in the negative.

Anyhow, the word is that the decision to delay the Tiger project may now be tied to the the Marines Corps programme. On Jan 14, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein was reported as saying that Malaysia was mulling the idea of adopting the United States’ marines military model to further strengthen the Armed Forces maritime capacity. He said the ministry had invited United States maritime warfare experts to Malaysia to discuss the matter.

With US Marines working with the Armed Forces to formulate a military model for the Marine Corps, do you really think they will favour the Tiger? Yes, we will have a lot of say on the equipment specified for the new corps, my best guess is that the Tiger will not be in it.

SAM alot cost to maintenance specially super expensive batteries pack cost USD 150 million per-set for each S300 missile system. have to charge every week.
S400 not allow export yet， event allow to export, our cant afford it, cost each set S300 missile system around usd 500 million with maintenance, and buy 1 ~2 set S300/400 with 12~16 missile each set not really help much. just small matter for china missile power.

Anyway our gov also looking on china missile defense system, from KS-1 event now HQ-16 missile system. cost is main factor.

so is Mi-17, crashed mainly bcoz of technical issues..
i dun like blackhawk anyway

a quote from Georgia's Mindef which decided to change all russian helos in their arsenals to American utility helos
>>Defence Minister explained the reason for replacement of the Soviet helicopter fleet by the U.S. ones. "It is very expensive to maintain the Soviet helicopters. Procurement of the spare parts is problematic and in most cases it is practically impossible to get this service without corruption deals. Considering all the above-mentioned facts we took a hard but right and logical decision," declared Irakli Alasania."
sos

do Vietnam and Cambodia produce the spare parts? no

our air force will pick M-17V if there is no issue, but they didn't..and i believe there are strong reasons for why they didn't pick Mi-17..and choose more expensive Eurocopter..
it is normal for helicopter to crash, but would u pick a car that have more bad safety records than pick another car that's a bit expensive but rather better safety record?

Our Bomba has chosen the Mi-17 as their fire helicopters. As of now, they have no problem with maintenance.

China will never sell us their air defence system, we will surely use it against them one day.

China will never sell us their air defence system, we will surely use it against them one day.

RMAF had a bad time with getting spare parts for our Migs, even parts for our Suks is from China.

Russian stuff might be cheaper up front, but very poor after sales service support which makes it expensive in the long run.
At least with the americans/europeans service level is there even though up-front it's expensive.

Searching New Home for 13,000 MRAPs
[Defence-Update]
Cheap used MRAPs anyone?
USD2k only per piece!

the french are most famous for "ada $, no questions asked".

hello /k/omrades 

can tell where to get latest military infos? like news and new military stuff 

salute bros

http://defensetech.org/2010/05/21/quality-.../#ixzz2sFb9FcIY

china made stuff,eh?

i tot we also bought Su-30 spares from them ?

haloo
first page would give you idea
tough rentaka.weebly.com is a good start
it is more on news and update rather just article and discussion!
Only the parts that are not available from india