It will be the same Gowind hull lengthen. If its is a AAV most probable Ester15/30. The same hull but different configuration. Concept used by south korea and US. So no new class of hull and will be cheaper in long run as BHS has the know how.
well if see LCS construction picture, LCS hull too small (not enough deep) to install Sylver 50 VLS system for Aster30. it need increase to around 4000 tons for capable install 32 VLS ... so better get DCNS FTI Medium-Size or FREMM-ER Frigates.
This post has been edited by waja2000: Mar 23 2017, 09:25 AM
Well, unless DCNS offer Mk 41 VLS so we can fit in SM2, ESSMs and JSM, we're stuck Sylver can quadpack Crotale... alternatively, mix MICA and Aster 30 - don't know if there are space+weight savings there
Nah, don't really care for SCALP - much rather have 12 or even 16 shots NSM
well DCNS in Australia Frigate project is offer MK41. Crotale too old and short range. Best combination option 1) Smarts-L lwc radar + APAR2 radar +Mk41 2) Sea Fire 500 integrated imask + Sylver vls
if see price, FREMM not really expensive if not TOT/IP.
Malaysian government and TLDM mentality is all naval ship to be made in malaysia. Even MMEA ship will be made in malaysia. Design can be from any country. The LMS will also be made in malaysia. The first 2 will be made i china to finalise the design with BNS personal attached to learn Chinas production method. Only ships that they cannot do due to size or shipyard capability then be made by conuntry of origin. So changing of hull will always with TOT.
well if see LCS construction picture, LCS hull too small (not enough deep) to install Sylver 50 VLS system for Aster30. it need increase to around 4000 tons for capable install 32 VLS ... so better get DCNS FTI Medium-Size or FREMM-ER Frigates.
Hull design can be the same. It jus adaption. Increase and lengthening of hull. Same as meko series ship.
MINDEF awards contract for new Armoured Fighting Vehicle Posted 22 Mar 2017 16:27 Updated 23 Mar 2017 08:57
ENLARGECAPTION 486 Email More SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has awarded a contract to Singapore Technologies Engineering for the production and supply of a new Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV).
In a press release on Wednesday (Mar 22), the ministry said the new vehicle will replace the ageing ULTRA M113 AFV, which has been in service since the early 1970s.
The development of the new AFV started in 2006, a project undertaken by the Defence Science and Technology Agency together with the local defence industry, MINDEF said.
The vehicle weighs 29 tonnes and has a maximum speed of 70kmh. It will operate alongside the Bionix Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
"The next-generation AFV will provide our armoured forces with enhanced firepower, protection, mobility and situational awareness," MINDEF said.
London has Fallen!!: Four victims killed in UK parliament 'terrorist' attack
LONDON: Four victims were killed and 40 injured after being run over and stabbed in a lightning attack at the gates of British democracy on Wednesday (Mar 22). Police attributed the attack to "Islamist-related terrorism".
The attack unfolded across Westminster Bridge in the shadow of Big Ben, a towering landmark that draws tourists by the millions and stands over Britain's Houses of Parliament - the very image of London.
The attacker's car struck pedestrians on the bridge before crashing into the railings surrounding the heavily-guarded Houses of Parliament, sowing first shock then panic in the seat of British power.
The assailant then ran through the gates brandishing a knife and stabbed a 48-year-old policeman to death before being shot dead by another officer.
Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as "sick and depraved" and said that "the terrorist chose to strike at the heart of our capital city" in an attack on Britain's democratic values.
Standing outside her Downing Street residence after an emergency cabinet meeting, May voiced defiance and said parliament would meet as normal on Thursday, while Britain's security alert level would be kept unchanged.
"We will all move forward together, never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart," said May, who was dressed in black.
May was in parliament at the time of the attack and was seen being ushered away in a silver car as what sounded like gunfire rang out, British media reported.
London mayor Sadiq Khan issued a statement saying the police were "dealing with the incident and an urgent investigation is underway". He also thanked authorities and emergency services for their hard work and "tremendous bravery".
'ISLAMIST-RELATED TERRORISM'
Britain's top counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley said the four victims included a policeman guarding parliament and three members of the public.
"Islamist-related terrorism is our assumption," Rowley told journalists, adding that investigators believed they knew the identity of the assailant who was shot dead by police.
The attack came a year to the day after Islamic State militants killed 32 people in twin bomb attacks in Brussels and after a series of deadly assaults in Europe that had hitherto spared Britain.
Parliament was locked down for several hours and hundreds of lawmakers and visitors were later evacuated to nearby Westminster Abbey and the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police.
An air ambulance flew in and police cordoned off a large area, while tourists on the London Eye, a popular visitor attraction, were stuck up to 135m in the air for more than an hour during the incident.
"I saw three bodies lying on the ground and a whole lot of police. It was pretty terrifying," said 16-year-old American Jack Hutchinson who was stranded on the observation wheel with his parents.
Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood, whose brother Jonathan was killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, was pictured with his face smeared with blood helping to give first aid to the fatally wounded police officer.
FRENCH, KOREANS, ROMANIANS HURT
Three French pupils on a school trip were among those hurt and a seriously injured woman was rescued from the River Thames following Wednesday's incident.
Five South Korean tourists were wounded, the Yonhap news agency reported, while the Romanian foreign ministry said two Romanians were also injured.
A doctor at nearby St Thomas' Hospital said they were treating people with "catastrophic" injuries.
Press Association news agency photos believed to be of the attacker lying on an ambulance stretcher showed he was wearing black clothes and had a beard.
'REAL SENSE OF PANIC'
British lawmaker Mary Creagh told AFP there was "a real sense of panic" as the attack unfolded.
Polish former foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski was in a taxi on the bridge and said a car "mowed down at least five people ... one of them bleeding profusely".
Pictures of what happened next showed two people being attended to on the ground inside the vehicle entrance gates of parliament, with a knife visible on the cobblestones.
Three shots were heard on video footage.
Jason Groves, the Daily Mail newspaper's political editor, said he saw the officer firing "with a handgun, and then gets closer to him and shoots him again from over him and he doesn't get up".
A Twitter user @ClaudiaScore said she had been on the bridge when she heard a loud bang. Video footage she recorded showed a car crashed into a railing with its bonnet still smoking.
On her Twitter page, Claudia said she "tried to check on the guy stuck under the car but couldn't get to him" and that he "looked in really bad shape". "I'm shaken up to say the least," she added.
An eyewitness at the scene tweeted that he heard what sounded like an explosion and raised voices outside parliament.
"I saw people running past the entrance to the New Palace Yard entrance to parliament, and then at least one person try to run into the Yard itself. A police officer chased this person and then wrestled them to the ground," tweeted Owen Bennett, who is the deputy political editor of the Huffington Post UK.
"Shots were then fired, but I can't remember how many and I didn't see who fired them."
'WE ARE NOT AFRAID'
Britain's allies reacted with shock and vowed to stand with London in the fight against terror.
US President Donald Trump and French President Francois Hollande both spoke to May and Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany stood with Britons "against all forms of terrorism".
Lights on the Eiffel Tower in Paris will also be switched off at midnight in solidarity with victims of the attack.
Social media users shared an altered image of a London Underground sign reading "We Are Not Afraid" and the hashtag #PrayforLondon trended on Twitter.
Britain's last terror attack was the assassination of Member of Parliament Jo Cox by a pro-Nazi sympathiser in her constituency in northern England last June.
The worst previous attack in London was in 2005 when four British suicide bombers inspired by Al-Qaeda attacked the transport system, killing 52 innocent people.
Hull design can be the same. It jus adaption. Increase and lengthening of hull. Same as meko series ship.
Meko have different model A100, A200。 A200 already middle class frigate at 3000-4000 tonne class（not lcs spec） Gowind 3000 series LCS so far is large model and is max length.. we need more deep hull means more long length and tonne to install sylver 50 vls, unless we want make 4000 tone gowinds？
NEWS LIMA 2017: MALAYSIA RECEIVES SIMULATOR FOR H120
Thales delivered a flight and navigation procedures trainer (FNPT II) to Malaysian company Gadang Kasturi, which has been using it for training Royal Malaysian Air Force pilots on the H120 helicopter at the Royal Air Force College in Alor Setar since December last year. This marks Thales’ first sale of a flight simulator to the Malaysian market.
The simulator allows RMAF pilots to receive initial training without the use of operational aircraft as has been the case previously. They can also receive training in scenarios not easily accomplished on real aircraft, such as system failures and emergency procedures.
The delivery signals what the company characterises as “the beginning of a strong partnership in the field of flight simulation” with Gading Kasturi. The development of the FNPT, based on the systems currently in use with French Army light aviation units, also involved a collaboration with small French contractor 6MOUV, specialists in tailored flight simulation solutions.
Meko have different model A100, A200。 A200 already middle class frigate at 3000-4000 tonne class（not lcs spec） Gowind 3000 series LCS so far is large model and is max length.. we need more deep hull means more long length and tonne to install sylver 50 vls, unless we want make 4000 tone gowinds？
Hull design is the same its the length and width different. What on top depends on the length and width. The heavier your top the longer and wider. Bouyancy related. For hull is more on how efficient the ship goes to the water. All shipbulider will experiment on hull design. This is where most of the RND is done.
For some time now, and for the very logical reason that "stop ship, this is MMEA" is not as universally translatable or to the point as "stop ship, this is Malaysia Coast Guard"
QUOTE(mumbly297 @ Mar 23 2017, 10:49 AM)
All shipbulider will experiment on hull design. This is where most of the RND is done.
also where the bulk of design costs kick in.
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QUOTE(thpace @ Mar 23 2017, 07:19 AM)
1st batch is ASW
2nd batch is AAR
3rd batch is? Combined ASW/AAR? Multirole?
Anyway based on dcns response, it look like the aaw would quite similar to our neighbour formidable class vessel. Meaning syvler vls to similarize with the existing batch but diff different radar system.
High possibility of the APAR radar on the intergrated mast system.. somehow we are hooked onto the idea.
I remember first batch is ASW and second is AAD third I dont recall
QUOTE(waja2000 @ Mar 23 2017, 10:42 AM)
MMEA already upgraded as Malaysia Coast Guard ?
It' easily recognizable and easier to communicate.
Taiwan plans show to reel in more to join its army
With many of the young shying away from signing up with the army even as Taiwan prepares to scrap conscription from next year, it plans to roll out the big guns - as well as high jinks and romance - to woo potential recruits.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry will be spending NT$12.8 million (S$590,000) to produce a 16-episode military drama serial tentatively titled The Best Choice, an effort that has drawn comparisons with the popular South Korean drama Descendants Of The Sun shown last year.
The K-drama, about the romance between a special forces captain and his doctor girlfriend, reportedly led to more South Koreans turning up at an army enrolment exercise.
Responding to reporters' questions on Monday, Taiwan's National Defence Ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi played down comparisons with the South Korean show. "We have our own style, culture and standards. We hope that the Taiwanese public will like our version."
While the storyline and cast of The Best Choice is still being finalised ahead of filming next month, its director Liang Hsiu-shen, who previously acted in 1970s military education videos, said the show would be "lively and romantic".
While the Defence Ministry cannot confirm if this is the first drama serial that they are funding, analysts say it is generally uncommon for government ministries to sponsor dramas.
The Taiwan military usually produces its own print, television and online advertisements to raise its public profile. It hopes that the upcoming drama will inspire more people to sign up as career soldiers.
Currently, about six in 10 people in Taiwan's 200,000-strong military are career soldiers, falling short of the target of nine in 10 in order for conscription to be scrapped.
Many Taiwanese stay away from the military because they feel the highly regimented lifestyle is not commensurate with the pay. At the same time, the military is struggling with its image following a series of accidents, including a recent report of air force officers being tested for illicit drug use.
A recent poll by the China Times newspaper found that only 29 per cent say they have confidence in the ability of the Taiwan military.
In recent weeks, Taiwan has also unveiled plans to increase defence spending and develop more weapons in response to China's increased military posturing.
Military-themed dramas and movies are an evergreen genre in Taiwan. The most recent one is Soldier, a 2011 work by TV station Sanlih Entertainment Television. Others include the popular Yes Sir movie, which came out in 1987 and spawned seven sequels featuring big names like Takeshi Kaneshiro.
But it is not known how effective they were in boosting recruitment.
Former deputy defence minister Andrew Yang said such military-themed shows are a "waste of money" as their impact is limited.
He also warned against over-glamourising military life. "You don't want people who eventually qualify and join the military to end up feeling duped when they realise they are not cut out for the tough training and discipline," said Dr Yang, secretary-general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies.
Professor Lin Lih-yun, from the National Taiwan University's Graduate School of Journalism, said the military will need to be more creative in storytelling to strike a chord with people. "Youths nowadays are more savvy and may be turned off when they feel they are watching propaganda."
Sanctions won't halt nuclear programme: North Korean envoy
GENEVA • North Korea has nothing to fear from any US move to broaden sanctions aimed at cutting it off from the global financial system and will pursue "acceleration" of its nuclear and missile programmes, a North Korean envoy told Reuters.
This includes developing a "pre-emptive first strike capability" and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), said Mr Choe Myong Nam, deputy ambassador at the North Korean mission to the United Nations in Geneva.
"Even prohibition of the international transactions system, the global financial system, this kind of thing is part of their system that will not frighten us or make any difference."
He called existing sanctions "heinous and inhumane".
North Korea has been under sanctions for "half a century" but the communist state survives by placing an emphasis on juche, or "self-sufficiency", he said. His country wants a forum set up to examine the "legality and legitimacy of the sanctions regime".
He denounced ongoing joint annual military exercises being carried out by the US and South Korea on the divided peninsula and criticised remarks by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his talks with regional allies last week.
"All he was talking about is for the United States to take military actions on DPRK," Mr Choe said, using the acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Mr Choe declined to give technical details of North Korea's rocket engine test on Sunday - seen as a possible prelude to a partial ICBM flight - calling it a great historical event that would lead to "fruitful outcomes".
"I can tell you for sure that the intercontinental ballistic rockets of the DPRK will be launched at any time and at any place as decided by our Supreme Leadership," Mr Choe said, recalling leader Kim Jong Un's pledge in a New Year's address.
Meanwhile, North Korea's state media announced that the reclusive country will hold a rare parliamentary session on April 11, which marks the fifth anniversary of Mr Kim's appointment as the chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
North Korea will also mark the 105th birth anniversary of founder Kim Il Sung on April 15.
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