they held onto the magazine i reckon

they held onto the magazine i reckon

Budget constraint a 'blessing in disguise', says navy chief

BY ADRIAN DAVID - 9 FEBRUARY 2017 @ 12:37

TERENGGANU: Instead of grumbling about budget constraints, the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) is taking a proactive step by challenging itself to improve, using all available resources.

This, RMN chief Admiral Tan Sri Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin said is being done by minimising wastage, prioritising its missions and tightening procurement procedures.

He said some of these efforts have resulted in considerable savings and will enable the navy to move forward.

“Often, the lack of financial allocation is being used as an excuse to not develop our capability.

“Rather, we use this opportunity to challenge ourselves in a holistic way.

“We overcome this situation by tightening our belt, improving procurement exercises and operational management.” he said in an interview.

Kamarulzaman said RMN focuses on ‘fit-for-purpose’ requirements when developing its programmes, by way of "doing more with less".

“We plan to ensure our requirements are based on priorities and actual needs, rather than perceived ones, to avoid wastage and frills which we can no longer afford,” he said.

One such effort, he added, was collaboration with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to mitigate and reduce the risks of corruption and ill practices, which can result in huge savings.

“These accrued savings in operatinal expenditure are able to fund new procurement programmes to continue modernising the navy.

“Therefore, we see these budget constraints as a blessing in disguise altogether. As a military outfit, we are still able to move forward when the going gets tough,” he said.

on unrelated note, russia is going to replace their Su-25 with a new attack plane based on Yak-130

My dream our Tentera Darat buy Caesar 8x8 155mm SPH   

do you have a source? seems really odd to replace such a dedicated CAS aircraft with an advanced trainer-derived substitute. reminds me of the F-35 being considered as the A-10 replacement..
unless it's for a more supplementary, low intensity conflict/coin role like what the super tucanos are for

The f35 decision to replace a10 were overrule last year.
The airforce will have to search for new aircraft to replace a10 till then a10 will be remain in service.

Can't they just upgrade existing A10 instead of find replacement.

It look badass

Aand it work like a badass

The f35 decision to replace a10 were overrule last year.
The airforce will have to search for new aircraft to replace a10 till then a10 will be remain in service.

do you have a source? seems really odd to replace such a dedicated CAS aircraft with an advanced trainer-derived substitute. reminds me of the F-35 being considered as the A-10 replacement..
unless it's for a more supplementary, low intensity conflict/coin role like what the super tucanos are for

Can't they just upgrade existing A10 instead of find replacement.

It look badass

Aand it work like a badass

I'm aware of said decision, but the fact remains that such a proposal existed despite the practically of said proposal being seemingly obvious.. thus the comparison with the alleged Su-25 (a dedicated CAS aircraft) replacement by a trainer.

there's definitely some factor/intel/politics that as the public we're not privy to, but besides the increased prevalence of COIN/LIC operations I can't fathom their rationale.

EDIT: found a related article from 2012. In it, the planned Yak-130 derived light attack plane never materialized. a SU-25 replacement is in the works but it's implied that it's a new design and not be from a Yak-130

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/...acement-372103/

People waiting to see how it performs in more operations first I think. For one thing, it has a rather small ammo magazine.

What's the status on those M109s coming to us BTW?

no $$$... budget low

People waiting to see how it performs in more operations first I think. For one thing, it has a rather small ammo magazine.

What's the status on those M109s coming to us BTW?

our 8x8 AV8 project more costly than buying ST Terrex. 
if buy directly will we possibly can get around 500 unit ST Terrex compare to 257 unit AV8 or remain 257 terrex + 100+ unit SPH ...

its been done before.... dassault/dornier alpha jet,saab 105,korean t50/ta50/fa50 and even malaysia have hawk 200 series(combat variant of the aircraft)