Adik beradik Samsung juga..kilang kerata kebal dan kapal latihan navy Malaysia.

I was browsing my army friend photo which is currently on business trip to South Korea. One of the photo is his visit to Hanhwa Thales factory in Gumi, South Korea mentioned on the photo,
Are we in process of buying any new tank now or just the training ship?

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inkaming K2 vs Type 10 MBT argument

Good to hear.

Speaking of which, the Kasturis are 30+ years old already. Any idea of their out of service date?

no need mention which is better
definetely K2

BAE systems has officially revealed its heavily-armored monster machine for the Marine Corps' Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 (ACV 1.1) program. This eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier is designed to ferry Marines from ship to shore, then protect the grunts as they move inland. If chosen, it will replace the aging AAV7.

As a service dedicated to the art of hitting the beach, the U.S. Marine Corps currently rely heavily on the AAV7 amphibious assault vehicle to carry infantrymen from amphibious ships to the beach and beyond. Unfortunately, the AAV7, while steadily upgraded over the years, lacks the armored protection to survive in a modern land battlefield. The growing use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and light anti-armor weapons has made the aluminum-clad vehicle obsolete.

The Marines started looking at a replacement for the AAV7 as early as 1988. The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) was to be a heavily armed—and armored—combat vehicle that carried 17 Marines and used a combination of water jets and an extendable bow plane to achieve water speeds of up to 28.6 mph. Engineering delays and rising costs eventually doomed EFV, which was canceled in 2012 after $3 billion in development costs.

South Korean AAV7 amphibious assault vehicles treading water during a 2006 military exercise.

But BAE's Amphibious Combat Vehicle could be its potential successor. Although originally designed by IVECO, a subsidiary of Fiat (yes, the car company), this is no 124 Spider convertible. This eight-wheeled vehicle weighs nearly 34 tons, has a three-person crew, and can carry thirteen Marines—a full Marine Corps infantry squad. It can do 65 mph on paved roads and has around a 250-mile range.

It’s not quite D-Day, but an array of armies, militias, tribal fighters, and Western support troops are massing for their “longest day” in Mosul.

Islamic State terrorists have held the historic city of Mosul for nearly two and a half years, and they have dug networks of tunnels and filled moats with crude oil to lay waste to a city that has been called an open-air museum.

The number of terrorists inside the city is somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000—half the estimated number from two months ago, according to military observers.

Nonetheless, ISIS-built defensive barriers are a force multiplier. The terrorist force has dug 18-foot-deep trenches around the city and filled these with oil and tar. Black smoke from burning moats has the potential to obscure targets pursued by fighter aircraft and drones. Tunnels have been dug connecting both banks of the Tigris River and also the northern end of the city to districts near the Qayara oil fields, allowing fighters, weapons, and supplies to be moved quickly. Some tunnels discovered after the fall of Fallujah were miles long.

The jihadists have a unified command-and-control system whereas coalition commanders must coordinate fighters from multiple religions and language groups. These include 25,000 Iraqi regular soldiers, most of whom are Shia, approximately 6,000 Kurdish Peshmerga, who are majority Sunni, 4,500 support troops from the United States, and 3,500 NATO troops.

This force will be joined by 10,000 Sunni tribal fighters from Nineveh Province, 2,000 soldiers from the National Mobilization Force created by former governor Atheel Nujaifi, Assyrian Christians, and ethnic groups such as Yazidis and Shabaks—14,000 soldiers in all, according to Yonadam Kanna, a member of parliament and spokesman for the 500-soldier unit of Assyrian Christians.

Eager to join the Mosul campaign are 30,000 to 100,000 troops belonging to Shia militias, known as Popular Mobilization Forces

On Sinjar Mountain 80 miles west of Mosul are 3,000 to 5,000 Yazidi militia affiliated with the Marxist-leaning Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who would like to join the battle. NATO considers the party a terrorist group.

Turkey currently has 1,000 ground forces spread across several locations and a “squadron of tanks”

“The Turkish forces are there to stop the PKK from having a role and possibly to strengthen the position of former governor Nujaifi,”

Finally, there is the question of whether a fifth column of resistance fighters inside Mosul could hasten ISIS’s defeat. Dozens of reports from Iraqi media claim such a force exists.

The record of the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, according to SOCOM — zero wins, two losses and seven ties.

This dismal record is catalogued in a briefing slide produced by SOCOM’s Intelligence Directorate last September and obtained by TomDispatch via the Freedom of Information Act. “A Century of War and Gray Zone Challenges” — a timeline of conflicts ranked as wins, losses and ties — examines the last 100 years of America’s wars and interventions.

“Gray zone” is an increasingly popular term of the trade for operations conducted somewhere on the continuum between war and peace. “Traditional war is the paradigm,” the briefing slide asserts. “Gray zone conflict is the norm.”

While he finds a great deal to fault in SOCOM’s analysis, retired Army colonel Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, believes its assessment of post-9/11 conflicts “is quite accurate.”

Although American politicians such as Clinton regularly insist that the United States possesses “the greatest military” on the planet, they avoid addressing the question of what the country’s armed interventions have actually accomplished when it comes to policy goals — the true measure of success in war. “We have not shown an ability to achieve our stated political aims in a conclusive way at an acceptable cost,” Bacevich says. “That’s simply a fact.”

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inkaming K2 vs Type 10 MBT argument

Why, why, why these people still wear all-black uniforms when fighting in a desert country? 
Not only will they get ridiculously hot, black won't even camouflage them very well. Coz, you know, sand.

i think its more like operators pride than anything 
as only their spec ops operators wear the blacks

I heard this anecdote from a Singaporean source that basically says 'in any war with Malaysia, Singapore must achieve victory within five days, if not we will lose the initiative and face possible collapse'.

Sounds like BS, but any idea if this has some grain of truth?

very true.. drawn up 40-50 years ago.. still the current doctrine... swift and decisive