Well according to their spokemen.
they do not have any problem modifying their Gumdoksuri class to meet our requirements and environments it can be done easily.
Though they proposed a much larger ship in response to the tldm rfp.
I hope tldm looking into the needs of fac ~500tonnage class as we badly needed it.

Start small build in multiple batches.
let say 6-10units at a time.
I think we need at least 36-54 units to cover both peninsular and borneo.

Later they have to fight isis pula..

Not yet because they not strong enough.
if isis really attack turkey actually quite vulnerable as they can attack from outside and inside.

I dun think the cost will be expensive.
building by batches are meant to make the whole procurement much affordable.
An 500tonnage fully weaponise would cost less than usd 100mil unless you are proposing to buy hamina class.
heck even a visby class cost around usd200mil each.
If you asking for a patrol vessel with rhib than ideally we go for samudera class.

This post has been edited by yinchet: Oct 7 2014, 04:11 PM

Well I just stating my opinions we need 36-54 units will be enough to cover peninsular and borneo.
We need at least 12-18units for esscom 6-8 units for pulau layang-layang, bintulu 3-4units, that not yet include selat melaka and langkawi.
as for samudera I hoping it modified to carry uav like scan eagle and rhib mayb cb90s if we have the money.
Also there is no classification how big a patrol boat should.
Anyway it just a wishfil thinking of mine.

As for armidale class, yes we did join into the project but in then we pull out iinm as we favor kedah class thus armidale class cancel. It reopen in 1999.

Usd70mil for the hull alone. Iinm.
weapons systems and sensors on differ contract.

G36 as standard rifle.


That really depend on the willingness to put in money for rnd in such tech.
Rnd is the best way for us to developed engineers and technology of our owned but that require lots of money.

Rm17.7bil for mindef

From the budget I dun put too much hope though.
sgpv and av8 will take a huge pie out of it.
maintenance I think it will easily around rm2bil+.
We should have around rm1bil+ to buy some stuff.
besides the current rmk already come to the end so dont expect much.

Another thing I wanna touch is esscom and esszone having double the budget is better than what I expected.
though realistic it is not enough.

Hmm, I wonder what kind of ship apmm will get. Rm393mil for 7 ship ain't much you know.

Could be getting cb90s

There is a bigger version of cb90s aka cb2010.
50tonnage and 24.1 meter lengths.

btw I dun think famous brand is what the government looking at.
if not we already have tons of german, england and us stuff.
As for china stuff it is best we avoid their high tier stuff first wait for them to build up their reputation.
I dun think we have problem in buying indonesia stuff.
singapore and israel yes a huge political hurdle is there.

Well as for me.
what our government military policy need to look at.

1. Look at the overall assets which have to urgently replace and which have to build on number and which have to trim off.
2. Looking at what our priority is in short term, mid term, long term and most of all which direction are we going to.
3. Review the entire procurment process what is the sop, bidder requirements,
what other benefits we are looking at - commercial tot? Military tot? Education development? Business, trades? And so on.
feasibility study is seem to be lacking of here. Av-8 is the best example here.

They probably have it under mkn.

Indeed.

You miss uav.

It is scaneagle type of uav anyway.
I dun think it is overkill it help to increase the range of patrol and provide sufficient fire power.
I think these batch of patrolship are meant for hot area like esszone.

Yup kesian tldm.
Gowind class originally plan come with the s-100 uav.
last minutes cancelled pula. Sigh.
they even did multiple flight test on the french gowind.
Anyway should try to put scaneagle on kedah class too.
shouldn't be too expensive rm70mil or less ia enough for all the 6 kedah class.