We already have similar to Royal Marine Commando in the form of 21 & 22 KDO.

PM me if you need some photos of jerung, handalan and FTV. I still have archived photos used for my previous website kbmyaf.

It is the same nic in Cari MPSA but kaybee in Gempurwira and Mymil

Or KD Laksamana Muda K. Thanabalasingam, 1st local to be navy chief.

This should be our policy as well for large purchases, else we will never able to equip our armed forces with most cost effective equipment in the quantity and timeline required.

know-how stays with people, if they are gone, it will be gone as well. It is important to have continuous stream of projects to retain key personnel, hence the know-how.

APMM budget used to come from PM dept. No more?

How they test fire anti-radiation missile? Put emitter on container barge? tq

This has always been the problem with Malaysia. We don't have enough dough but we want to berlagak like a big and rich country. We spent a lots of our budget to learn and make our own armored vehicles and warships. because we spent so much to acquire those capability, we can only buy in small quantity compare to what we really need immediately. In the end, the cost per unit is so high that we could have bought them off the shelf in quantity that we need, in timeline that we need for the same amount we spent doing it ourselves. Capability is not forever unless you continue to retain those by continue building them. Once stop, you may lost that capability as the peoples (human capital) who has those knowledge will leaves as well. Mau cari makan mah. You can create Best Known Method or procedures to preserve those capability but it is not a replacement on warm body with brain. I work in MNC and have seen capabilities gone with the people as we shut down certain dept and need to spend a lot of effort to re-acquire those same capability many years later when we need it again due to biz direction change.

Also on AV8, are we sure we can build everything locally? The last I heard we still order all the chassis from Turkey. We ordered weapon system and electronics from South Africa, Europe etc. We don't manufacture them 100% by ourselves, even the raw material to make steel need to import.

If we just want it for training purpose, no point getting a brand new tank which were heavily upgraded at great cost. We could follow Singapore that bought secondhand submarine to learn tools of the trade. BTW, the same applied to our submarine as well. Maybe we spent so much for brand new and modernized tanks and submarines just to create our doctrine because we know we will not buy anymore for next few decades

Hong Leong Lurssen previously built Jerong-class patrol boat long time ago. I'm sure there are many others that have such capabilities.

If I remember correctly Labuan is not for NGPV/SGPV but for Lekiu batch 2 that was cancelled.

recalcitrant is the word.

I agree with your opinion Usually decision is not value for money and not meeting timeline, just trying to fulfill ToT requirement but industry sustainability is questionable. If government take action to stop leakage, there would be extra buying power for ATM long time ago. Just look at audit report every year and yet no action taken to plug it