Yeah good for them. I quite like the MMEA ships.

was referring more to PSC

what do you know about Amin Shah btw?

They have a massive economy actually

GDP of US$ 1 trillion compared to our US$ 0.3 trillion

Then since their salaries are comparatively low, their personnel costs are low as well, leaving more allowance for Capex and Opex

Indo defence budget was about US$ 8 billion compared to our US$ 3.75 billion, yet they spent 1/3rd less than us, 0.8% of GDP compared to our 1.25% of GDP

Indonesia has big potential to be an Asian tiger, if they ever get their act together

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Apr 12 2019, 07:39 AM

curious to know about his career, cause I just noticed that his companies built a lot of properties around KL

Excellent short article about JASDF air policing activities

Didn't know China and Russia enter Japanese EEZ up to 4 times a day every day!

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commen...-force-11424940

Sigh. To be expected.

don't think there's any Aspide upgrades

The missiles should have expired. I will guess that the Aspide launcher can’t be as easily removed.

Highly unlikely

Anyway we are moving on to Gowinds and NSM

IINM the Otomats we resold to Italy were used for developing the latest Otomat/Teseo model, which is deployed on the Italian FREMM ships

Dunno. Read it somewhere, I'll try to find it back. Was surprised myself.

No

Sounds like some other ktard though possibly Raddus

LMS was supposed to have hydrographic module

I think the idea is to use USV, for example: https://navaltoday.com/2019/02/07/royal-nav...onomous-vessel/

Don't ask me, ask RMN - it is their 15 to 5 idea

Possibly there will be 1 ISO container with operator console inside ( the one behind the stack)

Then the deck ISO containers can fit the USV/towed scanner

The ASW helicopters and mine hunting equipment costs more than the OPV itself

Missiles also can be equally expensive as the OPV

USS Fitzgerald repaired

Cost: USD 327 million

Yes

But still quite costly. Apparently the ship was practically rebuilt due to structural damage.

Possible answers to your many questions:

1) why are the rest these missiles are just kept lying in storage?

Because missiles kept in storage last longer than missiles on a boat out at sea, even if they are kept in their canisters.

2) why do they insist on keeping the two ancient 35-year old Kasturi-class corvettes fully armed with Exocets instead of the more numerous, modern and capable Kedah-class?

Possibly because the Kedahs lack the operator console and minor modifications/systems needed to operate the Exocets, and there's no operational reason to have another pair of Exocet-capable boats at this time

3) What tactical advantage can get gained from this policy?

Possibly there is only a need to train 4 ships crews for antiship combat operations on the Lekius and Kasturis, whereas adding Exocets to 2 Kedahs would mean having to train additional 2 ships crews for antiship combat ops. There is no current operational need for that.

Also this would take away 2 ships and their crews from carrying out their usual patrol duties in order to conduct training. Again, where is the operational need for that*?


*yes, it can be argued that there are certain needs justifying more combat ships. But this simply shows that to add let's say 2 frigates for combat ops requires a significant investment not just in equipment, but also in war stocks, recruitment and training. Yes the hardware is expensive but so is the human resource component, we focus a lot on the former but should also bear in mind the latter.

so although it would be nice to have another 2 frigates, 4, even 6 or more; bear in mind the costs can be very significant.

Supposedly

No money or political willpower

River-class Batch 1 OPV HMS Clyde



and

River-class Batch 2 OPV HMS Forth






^ excellent points

Question: do TDM have division-scale manoeuvre exercises?

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Apr 27 2019, 01:10 AM

announcement dia buat macam 150+ orang saja

awwww nice

my copy much lower res than this

thanks

wait for DLC

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: May 7 2019, 01:00 PM

Cheaper than AV4