Korea normal，they own declare 4Gen only .....

yes, i know ..... they have some 4gen feature, but overall industry say not full 4 Gen standard yet. it may suite korea/japan geographic/ environment/ weather.
too advance also it give more hard to sell oversea market. seems market still not accept this advance type MBT . maybe few year later. country more advance stage than army will accept it.

wait and see ... and final spec .... still long wait ..

actually for MBT turbine engine more high fuel consumption than diesel engine, M1A1 Turbine engine fuel consumtion 380L/100km vs Leopard 2A just around 230L/100km.
but turbine have alot advantage, it get full engine power after turbine engine start, just like jet engine, good for acceleration and speed，  disadvantage is more complex maintenance，high fuel consumption，hot engine， also low lifespan for Turbine engine。 
but diesel engine just get  full power at max rpm. in low speed, diesel engine get better fuel consumption. 
it all about cost. us not border fuel cost.

Probably quite useful for trolling Japanese & ROC air defense systems. Some calls to the Pentagon would be made before the confusion could be cleared up.

Wouldn't surprise me though if China already have a good understanding on Apache capabilities, history shows some secret deals were made with certain countries. Notable was with Israel in the past regarding Israel selling some sensitive data including Patriot missile technology to China. I seem to recall last year Finnish authorities seized a British-flagged ship bound for Shanghai which had a hidden load of 69 Patriot missiles.

Guys do u all think buying kora class corvette from india is gd idea??  basically an enlarged version of vietnam molniya missile spam boat, 16 kh35 missile with 130km range, if conflict rly happen i think like 12 of these missile spam corvettes would be more scary than 6 sgpvs, and wikipedia say each ship 40million usd(wtf) but i think that is outdated prices and may or may not include weapons. and its indian, indian relationship w china not that good i think. so, gud idea??   

The missile stole center stage at Malaysia's Defense Services Asia exhibition, with high-profile potential customers including South Africa, Egypt, Oman, Brunei and other African and Middle Eastern countries.

Defense Talk reported this month that India was considering exporting the BrahMos to Chile, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. The keenest interest, however, has come from Malaysia, which is looking for a new weapons system to fit its Meko A100 Kedah class ships.

BrahMos’s Market Promotion General Manager, Praveen Pathak, told KLS’s journalist that BrahMos has already been doing assessment on ship body of Meko 100. The result is BrahMos is suitable to be installed on it.

Currently, the Indian Navy has installed BrahMos on her naval ship with inclined launch style which is different from western style. Whether BrahMos could be installed in crossover style, Praveen Pathak answered that it is certainly no problem!

He said BrahMos has already done an assessment on it that there is no problem to develop crossover style launcher, BrahMos can be designed and integrated according to customer requirement. But, the problem now is Malaysian government hasn’t made any official requirement to install missile on NGPV.

BrahMos is a multipurpose supersonic anti-ship missile and suitable be installed on 500 ton, 1000 ton and 2000 ton above warships. There is no problem to integrate BrahMos into western standard ship. But, 500 ton missile fast attack boat is not suitable to install vertical launch BrahMos system.

2 JMSDF (Japan Navy) destroyers at sepangar base today..... soccer match this evening

I am expecting the question.....aku baca signal hari jumaat lepas so dah lupa nama ape..... but 2 different classes.

I think it would be better to have strategic partner like india more than pakistan bcos afterall india gonna be 3rd largest economy and much more weapons systems, plus ive always thought we were closer to india than pakistan

Imagine what would happen if we hijack their sub at night and force the crew to teach us how to operate the sub then steal both subs haha

but turkey military industry seems small compared to india, economy oso

I don't think the K2 Black Panther is a JV between SK & Turkey. On the contrary the Turkish new Altay MBT is based from the K2 Black Panther.

But imagine some country whole cbg come visit then we hijack, wat they can do

meh,one of the reasons why people go for 105s is because it can be man handled.if vehicle based baik go all out for larger guns

CNO: Malaysia Offers U.S. P-8 Detachment Site

By RICHARD R. BURGESS, Managing Editor

ARLINGTON, Va. — Malaysia has offered the use of a base in East Malaysia on the island of Borneo to the United States as a site for detachments of Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

Speaking Sept. 8 about the Asia-Pacific strategic rebalance to an audience at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) ADM Jonathan W. Greenert said that “recently, the Malaysians have offered us to fly detachments of P-8s out of East Malaysia. You can see the closeness to the South China Sea. So we have opportunities and we ought to continue to nurture them.”

A staging site in East Malaysia would enable the Navy’s maritime patrol aircraft easier access for operating over the South China Sea and shipping lanes such as the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait, through which much of the world’s commerce passes.

Malaysia allowed Navy P-8A and P-3C aircraft to operate from West Malaysia during the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared on March 8. The Malaysian government expressed appreciation to the United States for its response.

The South China Sea has been a region of increased tensions in recent years because of competing claims over islands and shoals where mineral resources may exist and because of the Chinese naval build-up, particularly the submarine base on Hainan. There have been several incidents at sea involving Chinese coast guard ships and U.S. Navy warships and ocean surveillance ships and aircraft in international waters off China. The most recent involved a Chinese J-11 fighter flying dangerously close to a U.S. Navy P-8A over the South China Sea in late August.

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i guest labuan airforce base

Needs a major modification to the mkm fuselage to carry these big guns, their mki modified by the hal india

The missile stole center stage at Malaysia's Defense Services Asia exhibition, with high-profile potential customers including South Africa, Egypt, Oman, Brunei and other African and Middle Eastern countries.

Defense Talk reported this month that India was considering exporting the BrahMos to Chile, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. The keenest interest, however, has come from Malaysia, which is looking for a new weapons system to fit its Meko A100 Kedah class ships.

BrahMos’s Market Promotion General Manager, Praveen Pathak, told KLS’s journalist that BrahMos has already been doing assessment on ship body of Meko 100. The result is BrahMos is suitable to be installed on it.

Currently, the Indian Navy has installed BrahMos on her naval ship with inclined launch style which is different from western style. Whether BrahMos could be installed in crossover style, Praveen Pathak answered that it is certainly no problem!

He said BrahMos has already done an assessment on it that there is no problem to develop crossover style launcher, BrahMos can be designed and integrated according to customer requirement. But, the problem now is Malaysian government hasn’t made any official requirement to install missile on NGPV.

BrahMos is a multipurpose supersonic anti-ship missile and suitable be installed on 500 ton, 1000 ton and 2000 ton above warships. There is no problem to integrate BrahMos into western standard ship. But, 500 ton missile fast attack boat is not suitable to install vertical launch BrahMos system.

Not just shipping container.
it can be anywhere on train on lorry or on some random location.
it can be use as anti ship missile, or cruise missile.
top speed iinm mach2.9.
Not far from brahmos top speed.

i thot i saw b4 on some official looking website say military equipment cannot disguise as civilian or smth??? and brahmos warhead i think a lot more big than klub if i not wrong 

Multipurpose cruise missile maybe impressive,but surely they cost a lot more than purpose-built anti-ship missiles due to the more advanced on-board computers and guidance systems and whatnot. With Malaysian government's notorious penny-pinching when buying defense assets,a smaller arsenal being a trade-off of a few advanced missiles is not a good deal.

Also someone made a good point,can you legally disguise the transport & deployment of weapons as civilian stuff? I thought all military weapons needs to be marked as such? Probably on some Geneva convention clause or somewhere? I suppose you can play with technicalities,like disguising a missile launcher truck as a normal military transport truck,but I feel launching missiles from a civilian looking shipping container breaks some international law somewhere.