Maybe...if in 30 years WWIII is happened many Malaysian will cross the border and become PATI in indon
Helang boleh pigi mana mana tempat depa mahu, rakyat marhaen mana nak pigi?

Maybe...if in 30 years WWIII is happened many Malaysian will cross the border and become PATI in indon
Helang boleh pigi mana mana tempat depa mahu, rakyat marhaen mana nak pigi?

The economy crisis 97 and embargoed had knock ID head very hard that they learned the lesson a lot.
It is a blessing in the long run. They walk step by step.

Meanwhile MY always proud and feel strong that Malaysia boleh.....maybe it is MY turn to be knocked harder.

I think MY will get F35 or others 5th gen fighter later.
If MY want to buy KFX, we should look at SK-ID agreement first who has the right to sell to us. MY is closer to ID.

ID is the producer that will make TNI is initial user of KFX. The good thing for ID that ID can make changes/ modification/upgrade by themselves without any permission needed.

No u said sigma & other Damen ship are different platforms with no commonalities. I were the one who say the difference is mostly in it exterior design. A U shape hull help with economic of operation at the cost of increase radar cross section and a beef up equipment onboard.
A waste of money that we don't have really.

It's a limited production jet which makes the cost twice that of Real US jet,  but it still kinda US jet with all the limitations of US jet compared to something like rafales, It has limited user which limit future upgradability options. It looks like Raptor but without radar absorbing composite body and internal pod it has the RCS higher that then a Gripen and SK themselves are scared of china, which make the risk of them not sending parts during heighten tension higher. At the end it's really just a glorified hornet build with tech from the 70s.

Uncle Sam ain't stupid. They been burnt by Israel who sell US tech to china B4. But for Korean That's is the cost of self sufficiency and that's the price Korean pays to not be a strong US allies and want to have independent foreign policy.

I think you know it already

KFX is exactly what people buy if they don't wish to pew pew china.

TNI is spoiled of choices for heavy multi purpose frigate (Perform both AAW and ASW). Wonder which they might narrow down

1) Iver Class 6500 tons
2) AH140 (Type 31) 5700 tons
3) Fremm 6900 tons

A big business for those defence contractors though, at least 10 vessels of heavy multi purpose frigate. Who provide best deal and transfer of tech to PT PAL would likely have better chances.

Question. Seems that Tldm do not install any ciws of such on their boats. Any reason why?

AK630 ciws
Goal keeper ciws
Dardo ciws

looks like Super Hornet to me.

Kedah class upgrade proposal

original Kedah
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Dardo, the 1st pic, is a CIWS (Close In Weapon System) of about the same generation as Goalkeeper, and it outranges Goalkeeper

Although to be fair in more recent pics of the Laksamanas I see the system seems to have been removed. In storage or decommissioned, I wonder.

This modification would entail opening up the hull I believe

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Let just forget about TB2.
Our primary security concerns is borders protection & to buy some deterrence from a freaking super power who do low intensity conflicts.

Drone no matter how expensive are just a dumb flying camera.and funny enough we do the world best drone base remote sensing companies.

https://vulcanpost.com/763444/aerodyne-mala...providers-2021/

What we wanted is just to use off the shelf cheap drone to be automated and run by AI & algorithm to go round the border and allert operators if they sense something suspicious and has quick response team in the ground & sea to combat it. Next is to simulate those PATI landing as invasion and thus write AI to calculate and redirect the firepower from such landing.

Afterwards is to write the AI to hunt down insurgence in jungle, estate by training it to hunt down pochers finally write AI to use those drone for increase situational awareness in raids.

Your suggestion to mount the 76mm and 40mm guns on Type 31

You would have to clear that with the manufacturers of the ship and weapon system, and integrate the associated radars and power etc with the Type 31 internal architecture.

The 40mm mounting just needs deckspace if I'm not mistaken, but the 76mm Oto is a deck-penetrating mount so the builders will have to ensure it can fit the space inside. Shouldn't be a problem I think but just to tell you, it's not a "strap-on" like Phalanx...

It would save money of course. Although both weapon systems need upgrading to make full use of their capabilities.

But I'm done playing fantasy fleets