22 FEBRUARY 2023

IDEX 2023: UAE confirms order for PT PAL landing platform dock

by Jeremy Binnie


A model of PT PAL's 163 m multimission support vessel at NAVDEX 2023 in Abu Dhabi. (Janes)

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced it had awarded the Indonesian shipyard PT PAL an AED1.5 billion (USD408.32 million) contract to supply a “multimission vessel” during the IDEX 2023 show being held in Abu Dhabi from 20 to 24 February.

PT PAL confirmed to Janes that the contract was for a 163 m multimission support vessel, which is a landing platform dock (LPD). The plan is to start construction in Indonesia in 2024 with the completed vessel delivered to the UAE Navy five to six years later.

The contract was announced without a value in July 2022 as part of a comprehensive economic partnership agreement between Indonesia and the UAE, although sources told Janes at the time that it had not been finalised.

PT PAL said that it could not comment on the systems and armament that will be fitted to the ship, but Emirati companies will be involved and it will supervise the process.

Spyder is interesting because the missiles are dual use or can be used by fighters.

Another innovation that the Sinkies did was to use ljdam for anti ship. That raised a few eyebrows when the muricans first saw how the sinkies were using  the F-15s.

Budget 2023: No more middlemen in defence procurements, says PM



KUALA LUMPUR: The government aims to cut out the involvement of middlemen in defence procurements and will deal directly with foreign governments in such deals.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the debacle over the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) issue cannot be repeated.

"The safety of the country has to be preserved to ensure peace and harmony. Weaknesses in procurement practices have affected the country's defence readiness.

"The procurement of the LCS cost more than RM6 billion, yet not even one vessel has been completed.
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"Such incidences cannot be repeated. From now, we need to eliminate the involvement of middlemen and deal with (foreign) governments directly (in procurement matters)," he said while tabling the 2023 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat today.

Anwar announced an allocation of RM18.5 million for the Home Ministry and RM17.7 billion for the Defence Ministry for 2023.

He said the bulk of the allocation, namely RM4.1 billion, would go towards the maintenance and purchase of armed forces assets to increase the nation's level of readiness.

imho, even better if all futures procurement; all will be build and finished by the supplier, no longer use local companies for assembly and TOT deal nonsense, but it's a good start

   

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imho, even better if all futures procurement; all will be build and finished by the supplier, no longer use local companies for assembly and TOT deal nonsense, but it's a good start

Yet zero of Malaysia's AAMs are ground launched. None of Malaysia's ground launched SAMs are air launched. Bomb use not so simple.

In theory and in forums, everything always possible.

Been there done that. While it sounds great in some people mind, in reality . Purchasing stuff directly overseas with foreign currencies without NO socioeconomic contribution to the local community & industry is extremely unattractive.

It would just lead the gov to either buy less that what MAF required like the Caracas or not buy anything at all.

Been there done that. While it sounds great in some people mind, in reality . Purchasing stuff directly overseas with foreign currencies without NO socioeconomic contribution to the local community & industry is extremely unattractive.

It would just lead the gov to either buy less that what MAF required like the Caracas or not buy anything at all.

Singapore exercises option for 8 more F35bs per the initial FMS notice several years ago.

This brings the total number of F35s bought to 12 so far. Per Singapores procurement style, the F35s will be bought in batches.

Singapore has previously told the F35 program office that it will buy up to  100 F35s (likely tagged to the security situation in Asia). Recently, it was also revealed that Singapore is looking at the F35A model. It is likely that Singapore will end up with a mixed F35A/B fleet.

https://mothership.sg/2023/02/rsaf-8-more-f...fighter-planes/

if purchasing stuff directly means we get less results than license-building it locally, then thank goodness we didn't buy the LCS direct, if we had, then we would end up with -1 ships sailing the seas, and we'd probably owe the French an additional ship

mathematics!

A bit weird to buy the F35 to replace the F15 as well.

If the LCS is bought directly from France it would still be sitting in the shipyard, get canned after 2 ship or turn into a OPV.

Because the main issue here is never about technical inabilities to glue ship together but because RMN refusals to utilise french missiles.

If USAF, jsdf, iaf, etc could replace f-15 with f-35, why not rsaf?

Malaysia already got 4 lms, on time and within budget. Someone smart enough to shift the production from a certain local shipyard to China, got the results.

Ps USAF are replacing some f-15c squadrons with F-35As. Lakenheath is an example.