non-citizen =/= non-PR

10 CVNs (Nuclear) and 10+ other LPD/LPH which mainly operate helis and 4-6 Harriers

Just like in WW2, US can happily trade their CVNs with Russia, India or China's CVs 1 for 1 and still come out winner, even 2 for 1 also they won't cry, some more the Nimitz class is set to be replaced with Ford class soon.

After looking into our Malaysian Army structure I am a little confused.

Kor Armor Diraja is said to have 5 regiments. Naturally 1 regiment operates our PT-91s. Other listed equipment are:
26 FV101 Alvis Scorpion 90 (Para Armd Sqdn)
184 Sibmas 90 IFV (160 90mm, 24 ARV?)
460 Condor APC
80 Bv206
103 K200 KIFV
211 ACV300 Adnan

In what way are they organised into the other 4 regts? At about 80+ vehicles per battalion I can make them fit, sort of. But as far as I can see these are 'empty' IFVs and APCs, except Sibmas 90. Are they intended to mate up with infantry battalions when deployed? And where will the 250 Deftech AV8s go?

Mintak ajar skit...

This post has been edited by KLboy92: Mar 4 2016, 08:51 PM

Yeah guessed as much, they are robust but also ancient some sources say jsut about 200 Condor still running
I understand, I am asking about how they organise for field deployment. Good idea that, a little armour goes a long way with Para. Wonder if we have the airdrop capability

So when forming brigades the armour regiments mate with the infantry battalions to form mechanised battalions. At 14 APCs/IFVs per company and 6 companies (we still use square battalion? A, B, C, D Coys plus Support Coy some more?) I can imagine about 80+ vehicles per battalion. So with that, and looking at a force of about 200 Condors, 100 KIFVs, 200 Adnans, that's 5 mech inf battalions...?

What do we use the Bv206 for then?

Western opposition also got to see who is talking... for example US RAND corporation and UK RUSI is probably better informed than Huff Post and the 'Daily Wail'

+10 about not trusting RT, sputnik, tass or their proxies like russia insider, southfront

+1

So, 5 classes of combat and amphib ships la. Okays... MCM? hydro survey? replen?

littoral this littoral that... whatever happened to patrol fucking boat

Mehsia don't have to follow mah... unless we really do use "aksi kinetik ketenteraan"

If we really can consolidate then it'll be fantastic... but replen and MCM can combine roles? at least need 6th class unless the Littoral Mission Ship is not just patrol boat but actually MCM/patrolboat, which would be verrryy interesting

Yeah well, see how it develops. Certainly a good idea if we finally do move away from picking up odd ships here and there and limited production runs of various designs.... but as always with Mehsia, planning excellent but we have to see how its executed

A kind of flat top can lah, helicopter ro/ro... maybe 3-4 heli spots, 1 coy of tanks. Good for sending IFVs or even Pendekars to East Msia.

I like the stealthed boat bays and bridge wings on that Gowind. Got confidence in the stealth design

Falklands War has already been extensively analysed, there's a public report that details all the points stacked against HMS Sheffield that day.

On top of all the points already stated above, Sheffield was apparently making a 1 minute long satellite communication which interfered with her radar at the exact time of the attack. Furthermore the Argentines also possessed a same type destroyer with Sea Dart and the radar they had bought from the Brits, and practised on this extensively to know exactly how to defeat the radar; flying at x height and y speed in z weather etc etc which was actually lower than their Super Etendard radar could track, they had an AEW aircraft vectoring them in... which again was missed by the Harriers on CAP patrol for some reason I forget.

Bottom line, the Argentines fought well and got very lucky a couple of times. But well, so did the British. That is just war.

So? apa titik Daily Wail? B52 also Vietnam War era what... and as has been pointed out, fighting ISIS with OV-10s and even A-10s is nothing like flying in a modern AA/AD zone.
Kirov reporting! My god, what year is it anyway?! 2016 or 1976?!
Still a very strong refutal to that 'consultant' who said USN can't hit anything over 70 miles... Some abilities kept quiet only, and besides Tomahawk ASM and LRASM coming soon. And with SM-6 an Arleigh Burke could launch saturation attacks like crazy, the weakness of the Russisn type supersonic missiles is that they're so big there's only so many shots they can carry.

This post has been edited by KLboy92: Mar 11 2016, 06:23 PM

to be fair, they're both named Akula

Haven't heard much from USN submarine fleet. No upgrades to 688i? How many left in the fleet I wonder

Re: North Korea, what are the chances we have a Red October situation here?

range of Metis doesn't fill me with confidence
F35 is not completely shit IMHO
but yeah... sounds like SAF trying to justify budget and reason for existence

Tanks guns shoot further these days too. Just sayin'
True enough, and in denser terrain it should do fine. But for the purpose of countering amphib attack? Its no substitute for e.g. NSM coastal battery

True that. ATGMs like Metis would work well on the beach-head armour. But like the Argentine objectives at Falklands, I was thinking of going for the LPDs and/or even LCACs/LCUs to deny followup and strand the initial wave...

If possible then yes it should be done. But can't always predict where the first wave lands, just like Normandy. So priority IMHO is take out the LPDs and LCUs. To this day amphib capability even of USN cannot put ashore and support anything bigger than a battalion, and landing ops always presume 3-4 days time is needed to build up supplies (though I understand they're working hard to fix this). If we make choking that lifeline a priority within that time period we can limit the effectiveness of the landed troops. Attack indirectly not head-on.

True, but you don't need super penetration to kill a missile team or even ATGM-armed IFV. Metis-M has a 2km range, standard L55 range is 2.5km with older rounds, probably more now. Bushmaster 3km+. Hell even Mk 19 40mm AGL goes out to 1.5km+. Point is, Metis-M isn't that amazing any more, we should shop for Kornet or the Chinese knockoff

Speaking of which, what weapons do our infantry battalion weapons coy carry? Do all squads carry Milkor MGL or just certain battalions or just GGK?

Mmhmm looks good, even uses better AMRAAM than our F18s

but seems to be merely fantasy fleet, sighhhh

Hmmm dyou think Western armies overlooked this area for too long? Their SAM units like... tak berapa cukup even including MANPADs