For LCS ie Gowind? sorry, I think ALL those names... don't sound good

I like the Royal Navy and old Imperial Japanese Navy naming conventions - the RN tries to name them the same letter or theme (ie county-class) while the IJN includes some of their famous mountains; both of them as well as many other navies reuse historic names of retired ships.

I think mountains are nice. How about:

KD Kinabalu
KD Tahan
KD Ledang
KD Korbu
KD Jerai
KD Murud/Mulu

I never liked the idea of naming ships after people.

me too, actually i also thinking mountains name for lcs， but mountains usually for something "big" so i better reserve for future RMN big ship like MRSS.

Well Gowind (LCS and LMS too confusing) will be our main (soon, only?) surface combatant so why not. Only trouble is that the mountains start getting more and more obscure

MRSS names? why not... tasik? KD Bera, KD Chini obviously I am drawing inspiration from RN's Bay-class landing ships

Actually I will make an exception. For the MRSS, Kesultanan Melaka sultan names can use - eg Sultan Muhammad Shah, Sultan Muzaffar Shah, etc. But I dunno if the sultans have a problem with that.

P.S. I would suggest using up the state names but the Kedah class OPVs won't be decommed so fast so unfortunately no...

This post has been edited by KLboy92: Nov 12 2016, 01:56 AM

any personal opinion also can.
but our 3 propose name for LCS feel not really good。

damn straight

Thick mud...road with thin asphalt ... no problem

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Look like no chance of that, since now since the RMN 15 to 5 plan involves the expansion of the NGPV (ie the Kedah class) fleet from 6 to 18 ships we may see the entire 13 states and 3 federal territories' names (plus a few others) on those ships.

At least can see the value of the TOT we bought with the Meko 100 Corvettes. Hopefully our local yards can accomplish this.

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According to preliminary data, Iraqi troops and their allies have already lost 3,000-3,500 fighters during their offensive on Iraqi city of Mosul.



The storm of the city of Mosul is not so successful: Iraqi troops and their allies approach the city from the north and south, but on the eastern outskirts of the city the same tendencies remain – it is obviously that the operation failed in the form, in which it was being conducted.

According to preliminary data, since the beginning of the operation, the coalition, fighting against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, has lost about 3,000-3,500 fighters (mainly members of the Iraqi Army and the Shia militias), who were killed or wounded in clashes with terrorists, as well as 17-22 tanks (T-72, T-62, T-55, Abrams), more than 120 pieces of light armored vehicles (infantry fighting vehicles, high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (Humvee), mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAP), bulldozers) and an unspecified number of vehicles, equipped with machine guns.

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At least 52 people died and more than 100 others were injured on Saturday (Nov 12) in a bomb blast at a remote Sufi shrine in Pakistan, officials said, with the Islamic State group claiming the attack.

The blast hit worshippers participating in a ceremony at the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Noorani, some 750 kilometres south of Quetta, the provincial capital of restive southern Balochistan province.

"At least 52 people have been killed and some 105 others wounded," provincial Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti told AFP, adding that there were women and children among the victims.

Local officials said worshippers were taking part in a devotional dance session, which is held daily before dusk, when the blast occurred.

Authorities said they had dispatched ambulances and medical workers from Karachi, a three-hour drive from the shrine - which is located in a remote, mountainous region with limited emergency facilities.

The shrine is revered and visited both by minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims, but militant groups like the Taliban and Islamic State (IS) consider the practice against Islam.

IS claimed responsibility for the attack via its affiliated news agency Amaq, saying that a suicide bomber targeting the shrine had killed around 35 people and injured 95 others.

But the provincial home minister said it was not immediately clear whether this was a suicide attack.



Hafeez Ali, a 26-year-old mechanic from Karachi, said he was sitting on a hillside and watching the evening's dance to drumbeat when he heard a loud noise and saw smoke rising.

"We realised that it was a bomb blast. Two of us rushed down and saw the bodies scattered all around - mostly children. We also saw the drum beater dead and his exploded drum was lying nearby," Ali told AFP.

Ali said the shrine sits on a hill which devotees have to climb for half an hour as no road goes there, causing difficulties for rescuers.

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Pakistan Army spokesman Lieutenant General Asim said 20 ambulances and 50 soldiers had reached the site, while a further 45 ambulances 100 troops were on their way.

A military helicopter would attempt evacuations at night, he added, but medical teams could not access the area by plane as their were no air strips close by.

President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif strongly condemned the bombing in separate statements.

"The government is determined to eliminate terrorism and extremists from the country," Hussain said in a statement expressing sympathy with the victims and their families.

A statement from Sharif's office said the prime minister called for the "best medical treatment" to be given to the wounded.



Up to 600 people were at the shrine at the time of the attack, according to local official Tariq Mengal, who told Geo TV that many devotees travelled to the site from Karachi during weekends.

The bombing follows the killing of Amjad Sabri, a renowned Sufi singer, by two gunmen in Karachi in June. Some observers have said that Sabri may have been assassinated because he was a high-profile Sufi.

Sufism, a mystic Islamic order that believes in living saints, worships through music, and is viewed as heretical by some hardline groups including the Taliban.

Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has oil and gas resources but is afflicted by Islamist militancy, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and a separatist insurgency.

Local militants claimed to have worked with the Islamic State group to attack a police academy in Balochistan last month, killing 61 people in the deadliest assault on a security installation in Pakistan's history.

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YANGON: Myanmar's military said its troops killed six people and lost two soldiers in clashes with attackers in Rakhine state on Saturday (Nov 12), in the latest flare-up of violence in the crisis-hit region.

Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts left nine police dead last month.

Soldiers have killed several dozen people and arrested scores in their hunt for the attackers, who the government says are radicalised Rohingya militants with links to overseas Islamists.

The crisis and reports of grave rights abuses being carried out in tandem with the security crackdown have piled international pressure on Myanmar's new civilian government and raised questions about its ability to control the army.



Authorities have also heavily restricted access to the area, making it difficult to independently verify government reports or accusations of army abuse.

On Saturday the military said it came under fresh attacks in the border region, first by a mob of some 60 people wielding "small guns and swords".

The clash broke out in the early morning during a "clearance operation" in Ma Yinn Taung village in Maungdaw township, according to an army statement.

"In that fight, six dead bodies of attackers along with a gun which the attackers stole on 9 October were retrieved," it said, adding that one soldier also died while others were wounded.

Troops then followed the attackers to nearby Gwa Zone village where they encountered a 500-strong armed mob, the military said.



"The army fought back but the group of attackers was very large and the army had to use two helicopters," the statement said, adding that one officer was killed in the operation.

The resurgence of violence in western Rakhine has deepened and complicated a crisis that already posed a critical challenge to the new administration led by democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

The state has sizzled with religious tension ever since waves of violence between the majority Buddhist population and the Muslim Rohingya left more than 200 dead in 2012.

More than 100,000 people, mostly Rohingya, were pushed into displacement camps by the bloodshed and have languished there ever since.



International rights groups have repeatedly called on Suu Kyi to carve out a solution for the group.

But Buddhist nationalists at home viciously oppose any move to grant them citizenship, claiming the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh despite their long roots in the country.

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