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.

Any guesses on which shipyard will build the ships??

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.

Dafuq, people at work now only show?

I would prefer if RMAF takes the 12 unit of A400 that the Germany wanted to let go

not all reef can develop to artificial island, depend on geographic, size and etc.
also cost not cheap. Layang2 is big enough, but runway is hard to extend any more, so A400M can't takeoff there, event C130 also can't.

We got mPA C-130 decades ago..but dunno what happen. special variant , C-130-H-MP

Maybe when we become 1.2 trillion dollar economy in 2050

or we can invest a bit and buy the f20 tigershark plans from northrop grumman for cheap and build factory and hire skilled workers and build a more modern version of it, can replace f5 and hawks in large numbers and use as interceptor or sulu gunman bomber, even though its old at least can supersonic and carry guided anti ground missile, unlike current hawks, bomb sulu gunman then all miss , and also can intercept better than f5s, afterall its an upgrade of the f5

But still almost no chance of this happening, and any attempt will probably end up in billions of wasted money and/or lots of delays

Next years according to the news.
Not much update news on its.

That's a PADS, a 40k USD parachute, that's gone straight to the ISIS. A specialized parachute, it can steer itself, got GPS built-in, and substantially much expensive drop system.

M28 Parachute Cargo Bag Webbing - 400 USD
PADS Extraction System - 28k USD
GPS Heavy Duty - 3k USD
Parachute - 40k USD
Honeycomb impact absorbing materials - some few dollars, 4 probably.
Dropping air supplies into the enemy - priceless

There are some things ISIS can't buy, but for everything else, there's US Air Force

So yeah, that's some good airdrop going on there

i read one singapore forum they say av8 lousier than terrex... true anot

On the subject of APCs and IFVs, I wonder why is it that Malaysian Army bought armored vehicles that no other country uses?
Like the German Condor and Belgian SIBMAS, no other country, not even their mother countries are using them.

And Malaysia bought these in relatively huge numbers, 180 for the SIBMAS and 450 for the Condor.