Any updates about the pohang class korea is donating to philippines??

China asked SoKor to cancel Pohang-class corvette donation to PH – report

by Grace Gonzales  8/08/2014 | 10:29 Posted in World

“China has strongly protested against the [South Korean] government’s decision to donate a 1,200-ton patrol boat and a landing vessel to the Philippines, it emerged Monday,” reported August 5 by The Chosun Ilbo, one of major news providers in South Korea.

“According to the Foreign Ministry, an official at the Chinese Embassy in Seoul visited the ministry on June 10 after the decision was reported by media and asked for it to be canceled,” it added.

On Philippine side, there is no report of cancellation.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwang-jin told Defense Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin at a meeting in Seoul last May 30 that Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) will decommission a Pohang-class corvette (PCC) by year-end and will be donated to the Philippine Navy.

Minister Kim said South Korea’s gesture is a small token compared with the great contribution of Filipino troops during the Korean War.

Pohang-class corvettes, a class of general purpose vessels operated by the Republic of Korea Navy, are equipped with 4 Harpoon missiles, 2 OTO Melara(76mm)/62 compact cannon, 2 Breda 40mm/70 cannon, 6 Mark 46 torpedoes, 12 Mark 9 depth charges. Sensors and processing systems depend on whether it is an ASW or ASUW version.

The said ship is expected to be donated with intact armament and sensors.

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I know Indo has alot of purchasing pwoer at the moment, and with that, they were able to buy big like fully armed SU30MKM, Leo2, many ships...but it would a big headache in maintaining them

Walao ... F-5 replacement = eurofighter. 

We should go for AMV.
I would not say it does not worth it or it worth it.
I rather disagree with the way the government manage the project.
having too many variants is expensive as we should start with 2-3 variants and build it in large number.
The project can prolonged and ensuring cont production line by further developing newer variants and adding new variant into the military.

Dat because it yet to hit their back yard.
anyway dat also what would happened when you put someone without any military background as menhan.

Indonesian Navy takes delivery of KCR-60M missile craft

Ridzwan Rahmat, Singapore - IHS Jane's Navy International
26 August 2014

The Indonesian Navy (Tentera Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Laut, TNI-AL) has taken delivery of the PT PAL-built vessel KRI Tombak (629), the second-in-class of its KCR-60M missile attack craft.

PT PAL's public relations manager, Bayu Witjaksono, told Indonesian media that the handover of Tombak on 27 August follows the successful delivery of lead vessel KRI Sampari (628) on 28 May.

He added: "The third KCR-60M is scheduled for delivery in September". IHS Jane's understands that this third vessel has been named KRI Halasan (630). According to IHS Jane's Fighting Ships , a class of three vessels is anticipated.

The KCR-60M class has a top speed of 28 kt and has a standard range of 2,400 n miles at 20 kt.

No: CR-164-14
August 27, 2014

CONTRACTS

ARMY

Robertsons Fuels Systems, Tempe, Arizona, (W58RGZ-14-D-0116) was awarded a $47,916,209 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for auxiliary fuel systems including reduced size crashworthy external fuel systems and internal auxiliary fuel system combo packs for the Apache AH-64 helicopter for domestic and foreign military sales. Performance location and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of May 5, 2017. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. This contract involves foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is the contracting activity.

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract....rce=GovDelivery

Wednesday, 27 August 2014 08:36

Royal Malaysian Navy Releases First Official Image of its LCS-SGPV Corvette


The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) unveiled for the first time an official rendering of its future Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) - Second Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV). The vessel is based on DCNS' Gowind Combat corvette design. DCNS is the warship design authority while local shipyard Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn will be in charge of buidling the vessels locally.
     
Royal Malaysian Navy LCS is based on DCNS Gowind Combat corvette design. The use of a stealth cuppola for the main gun (similar to Swedish Navy Visby class) and the re-worked bridge area shows the stealth requirement for the class were a priority. Image: Royal Malaysian Navy
     
The RMN's LCS will have a length of 111 meters and a displacement of 3,100 tons. The 6 vessels will be fitted with 57mm Mark 3 main guns with stealth cupola from BAE Systems Bofors. It was confirmed to us during LIMA 2013 that the combat management system will be the SETIS by DCNS, the Fire Control Systems will be provided by Rheinmetall, and the engines will be provided by MTU. There will be two 30mm remote weapon stations by MSI. Thales announced ealier this year that it has signed a Letter of Award with Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn. Bhd. to supply six SMART-S Mk2 naval surveillance radar systems, as well as six CAPTAS-2 towed sonar systems for the Royal Malaysian Navy’s Second Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV) Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).

Navy Recognition's own sources indicate it is now highly likely that the anti-ship missiles and surface to air missile will be provided by MBDA (MM40 Block 3 and VL Mica respectively).

First ship of the class is set to be floated out and lowered in the water via a platform in December of 2018.

Malyshev plant tanks preparing to send abroad

Alexei Grishchenko
"STATUS QUO", Kharkiv, 26/8/2014, 9:24

State enterprise "Malyshev Plant" (Kharkiv) is planning to send to Thailand in October a second batch of tanks "Hold." Told reporters CEO Nikolai Belov plant. According to him, as part of the party - five cars. Their production - in the final stages.

According to Belova, until the end of 2015 to complete the task of sending the "pillars" in Thailand (of the contract need to send 49 cars). "Some of the tanks have been welding, welded following housing being machined. Production process tanks is" - said Belov.

Help "SQ". In September 2011, between the GC "Ukrspetsexport" and operational management of the Royal Thai Army was awarded a contract to supply 49 units of Thailand main battle tank "Hold" and support vehicles production enterprise "Malyshev Plant". The total contract value substantially exceeds $ 200 million.

In November 2013 in Kharkov representatives "Ukrspetsexport" and the Royal Thai Army signed an act of technical acceptance of the first batch of these tanks. February 4, 2014 the first batch of five cars arrived in the Kingdom of Thailand to the port of Sattahip, where they were unloaded and sent to the place of acceptance tests.

"Hold" is constructed in the GP "Kharkiv KB Machinery im.Morozova" and is designed to defeat all kinds of fire ground (surface) and low-flying low-speed air targets under enemy fire enemy. The tank can be operated at ambient temperatures from -40 ° C to + 55 ° C and at an altitude of up to 3 thousand meters above sea level. The tank is armed with a gun BAF-3 (gauge - 125 mm) with a horizontal wedge semi-automatic breech, coaxial machine gun PKT (7.62 mm), and anti-aircraft guns rendered type (12.7 mm).

Two tourists appear to take pictures with the background of tanks on display at the Indonesian "Independence Day Run" event. (Haritheh Almudatsir / Jawa Pos)

indon leopard dah datang, siap sujud syukur plak, lol

Army in the Pacific adopts new style of deployment

by: William Cole
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
published: August 29, 2014

The Army in the Pacific is starting a new deployment concept this week that sends soldiers out into the region for multiple exercises and longer stays in foreign countries that are intended to reassure partner nations and develop closer relationships as the United States continues its "rebalance" to the Pacific.

Developed out of Fort Shafter, "Pacific Pathways" also is a new Army strategy to stay relevant as large occupational land forces that are costly and slow to mobilize become less viable.

About 550 soldiers with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Washington state and supporting units are heading to Indonesia for the exercise Garuda Shield in the first iteration of Pacific Pathways, the Army said.

The soldiers will utilize nine Stryker armored vehicles and eight helicopters.

About 500 other 2nd Stryker and supporting soldiers will head to Malaysia with 11 Stryker vehicles and three helicopters for the exercise Keris Strike, which overlaps with the Indonesia training.

The first group of 550 soldiers and others will then leapfrog over to Japan for Orient Shield, the Army said.

The 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks will provide the headquarters element for all three exercises.

Some of the soldiers will be gone for about three months.

Next year, the cycle for soldiers chosen for Pacific Pathways — possibly from Schofield Barracks — will include even longer deployments with the same units heading from exercise to exercise to exercise and training with host nations in between, according to the Army.

Until now, the Army hasn't really defined in detail what Pacific Pathways is.

That set up some criticism that the land service, in sending out units to roam around Asia that also will be prepared to respond in the event of a natural disaster, was trying to become the Marines.

Not so, the Army has said repeatedly.

One Army official who gave a background briefing on Pacific Pathways said, "These (Army) guys are on land doing land stuff."

According to U.S. Army Pacific, headquartered at Fort Shafter, seven of the world's 10 largest armies are in the Asia-Pacific, and 21 of 27 nations with armed forces have an army chief of defense.

Brig. Gen. Robert J. Ulses, assistant chief of staff of operations for the Army headquarters, said Pacific Pathways is an "innovative approach" to meeting U.S. Pacific Command requirements for participation in already scheduled exercises throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific.

"Employing our forces in this manner provides the U.S. Army an efficient and effective way of increasing and sustaining unit readiness and improving the availability of our forces in theater while also strengthening military-to-military bonds with partner and allied nations," Ulses said in an email.

U.S. soldiers in the Pacific already participate in a slew of exercises in foreign nations every year as a way to build better relationships.

But one unit would go to one exercise for a few weeks and go home, and another unit would do the same in another nation. None of those were linked together, the Army said.

The challenge, officials said, was to leverage all those routine exercises in a way that benefits the Army from a readiness standpoint and lengthens what is seen by some countries as a reassuring U.S. military presence in their lands.

In between Garuda Shield in Indonesia and Orient Shield in Japan, the Washington soldiers out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord will work on individual and group training and cultural relationship-building in the host nations, the Army said.

Lt. Col. Derrick Cheng, a 25th Infantry Division spokesman, said the first iteration of Pacific Pathways also pushes the Washington-based soldiers forward of the international dateline into Asia for an increased Army presence.

The soldiers are heading to Indonesia this week and next for Garuda Shield, which begins in September and runs through the month, Cheng said.

The Malaysia exercise starts in mid-September, he said.

Another aspect of Pacific Pathways is that with the end of the Iraq War and drawdown in Afghanistan, the Army said it now is sending its highest-trained troops out into the region.

The Washington soldiers went through the National Training Center in California in June, which in the past was the final step before a combat deployment.

Overarching Pacific Pathways is the stated goal of U.S. policymakers not to get stuck in protracted land wars with lots of troops on the ground.

That has put a premium on the ability to be fast, lethal and self-sufficient — or more expeditionary, like the Marines.

Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies in Honolulu, noted that the theater "is largely seen as maritime. So the forces that are leading the way in Asia and the Pacific are the Navy, No. 1, the Air Force and the Marines."

But there's still a place for the Army.

"Even if we're not leading with our Army in the rebalance, the military component of the rebalance, that doesn't mean that armies aren't important to many of these other countries. So there's a natural liaison (with the Army)," Glosserman said.

And the Army, like all of the U.S. military, has to become more expeditionary — whether it ruffles Marine Corps feathers or not, he said.

"That is really very much the way that militaries will fight," Glosserman said. "We'll be doing this in a lighter fashion. We'll be doing it more quickly. So I think the ability of the Army to fulfill that mission is an important adjustment to just the realities of 21st-century warfare, and I think of war fighting in the Asia-Pacific region."

The parade and procession in conjunction with the Merdeka Day celebrations at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur August 31, 2014. — Picture by Saw Siow Feng

Malaysia's army personnel sing as they march during Merdeka Day celebrations at Dataran Merdeka today. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, August 31, 2014.

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