As long as the vessel ready on time. I wonder you are from bustead or not. If you are from spore, sorry for my error info.

But for bustead do you know you show a picture of LCS 3100 Tons gowind when you lauch 3rd LMS 700 tons gun boat?  Two entirely different vessel la

PT PAL yesterday sign for 2 Arrowhead 140 Multi Purpose Frigate 5700 tons (both Air Defence and Anti Submarine capable)

32  Essm on MK 41 VLS
Ciws
Either Harpoon advanced
One Merlin Heli
Torpedoes

Built in Indonesia yard between  PT PAL and designer Babcock UK

Arrowhead 140 is the similar design to Type 31 UK

Well PT PAL has proven themselves again and again. They built many 7,000 to 10,000 tons support ships to Asean countriez and even to TLDM.

Talk to Indonesia engineer on  a subject and then you talk the same subject to a Malaysian engineer. See the difference .

PT PAL and ST Marine Engineering. The rest No.

PT PAL Indonesia just officially disclosed the Babcock Arrowhead 140 specification for the Indonesian Navy. The weapons especially the missiles will be FFBNW.

Engine
• Main Engine 4 x 9100 kW
• Max speed 28 knot MCR
• Endurance 18 knot 9.000 NM

Armament
• MR VLS 3 x 8 cell SAM
• LR VLS 4 x 8 cell SAM
• LR VLS 2 x 8 cell SSM

https://pal.co.id/2021/09/publikasi/news-be...fregate-kemhan/

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given a good design, Indonesia can build any ships.

but locally designed ships? the KCR60 is not something i consider as a good ship. The concept of that tank boat is idiosyncratic at best.

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I wouldn't choose any of them.

the latest KCR batch 3 number 5 and 6 which is fully armed cost Rupiah 800 miliar or around 56 million dollars each.

https://money.kompas.com/read/2019/08/02/16...-rp-1-6-triliun

Tun Fatimah cost less than the LMS, while being as big as the Kedah class.

gowind expensive?

Brazil is paying for souped up meko a100 similar to TLDM Kedah class for 500 million euro each!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamandar%C3%A9-class_frigate

Fittting ESSM will need highly capable 3D radar at least similar in performance to the SMART-S mk2 on the gowind, CMS like the tacticos + other stuff. That would push the price to at least 250 million dollars if you are putting NSM also.

But what for? Can a 22 knot 1860 tonne ship like Tun fatimah do anything in a war scenario? Can it keep up sailing with the Gowinds at 28 knots? Or can it do FAC tactics in melacca straits, pulau banggi and tawau waters? MCM process needs large space and crane to carry unmanned boats and unmanned underwater vehicles. If you want a Tun fatimah to do MCM, probably it is to be modified specially for that purpose only.

This is damen proposal for MCM ship based on its OPV hull



in my opinion just let OPVs be OPVs.

I was not sure earlier when thus question pop up.

If it is 3500 tons with missiles and full radar specs then 500 mil is not suprising.

The French La Fayatte Class Frigate (in which Singapore Formidable Class design based on) , in 3800 tons

Hence it is only 300 tons difference between the French La Fayatte Class and The Brazul Meko. So 500 mil make sense.

For me I too prefer Type 31 or Babcock Arrowhead AH 140. Understand that Indonesia version is the Air defense frigate of min 5,000 tons. 32 VLS ESSM on MK 41 Launcher. AH 140 can accomodate one huge heli above 10 tons to Merlin Size (AW 101)

Well the british built Lekiu Kelas at Yarrow shipyard model F2000 corvettes serve us well from 1995 until 2021 and still sailing now. 26 years after service. However both has to undergo SLEP in 2014/2015 to lengthen the service to 2030. From 2021 to 2030 is 9 uears. This mean both has to serve for 30 years

The  british yards built pretty good vessels. I rather pay additional 25% and they get the job done  to specs on time.

What have our politicions done to our Navy ? Each time failure and failure.

The Indonesian MoD is in talk negotiating for the procurement of another type frigate for General Purpose (GP) role.

Swipe for more pic.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTWFwzVBhN5/

pic below is Malaysian made LST, made by sarawak's shin yang shipbuilding for UAE navy (they ordered 3 and shin yang already delivered  with the third ship otw) So if simply lst (or even small lpd) boleh je local shipbuilder buat



pastu tetiba ada pulak pihak nk sailang shin yang...😂😂

The largest can consider may be the FREMM no need for those large agis DDG

Btw Indonesia serious on FREMM frigate/destroyer?

makassar lpd oso use ferry design le

But don't worries sigma fans, Seem RMN want to spend 4 billion for 8 sigma Corvette this malaysian plan

*The gov like ID seem interested to have multi agencies using the same equipment and Damen is likely in the leads since they are building tun Fatimah. If next year this proof to be the case, then whatever ship MMEA going to buy for their mothership is going to be the navy ship next MP.

Hishamuddin recent statement that they going to order 8 LMS batch 2 in 2022, 2 MRSS in 2024, and 6 NGPV in 2026.

For 500 millions a piece for a ship the size of Kedah/tun Fatimah. It has to at least have a missiles. But then again we do have a proud tradition of paying high price for a gunboat.so who knows.

As for the LCS, at least 2 are in the very advance stages pending sea trial. So ordering new ship after the sea trial won't be much of a controversy i guess.

Nice close up pic of newly converted RMAF CN-235 MPA at PTDI facility. Credit to Bayu.



https://www.instagram.com/p/CUFaV33p16H/

I'm not sure about choosing US-made missiles. Better stick to European missiles.