Malaysia historically only buys US jets from F5E to Skyhawks. It was only when we need to replace them, Tun M went to Russia and brought MIGS29 but we faced problems with maintenance and the SU30s also will face the problem due to sanctions on Russia. We already made decision to buy the Koreans jets to replace our Hawks. The Koreans jets are based on US tech. If we buy China jets, we will face problems integration again like how we faced in the past with F18, Mig29 and SU30.

Ok 👍

If madani cut all of petrol subsidy ,sure can afford new jet. But are you willing to bare with it? ,please do note that our military is almost become a joke compared to neighboring countries. This is just a stop gap purchase.

judging from geological map, China is nearer to us and pose a military threat, if PLA initiate war on us, all the J plane confirm kena lock

Ok make sense too! 👍

yeah, make sense us want to arm us to the teeth

Will be breakfast for J-10Cs. Would be great against the sulus and their ilks I guess.

Beggars can't be choosers as the saying goes.

well, I guess it will have to depend on the costing... seems like the plan is to get like 30 of such planes... if we can get them for the cheap, like 10 bucks each, sure makes sense....

But if it is at full price of like 80 million, now that is silly especially as stop-gap. May as well aim for latest and greatest and order like 15 from USA and 20 from China... even things out and long term may be cheaper and more effective. (more from china cos I would guess China's cheaper and better get a few more for parts too)

if PLA initiate war , all the US made jets can not survive for long . stealth or not. it makes no difference.

Of course cheap or foc ....if not we also won't be muka tebal go ask for it .with our military budget allocation, you see also will laugh what to buy with it. At most give you buy few attack heli and few amored car and light weapons. Want say rm80 million a pop fighter jet is out of questions.

Can fight or not is different story, military procurement often associate with nation alliance.

For Malaysia to stay neutral, military procurement better side with US/EU, if not Malaysia will be perceive as siding China in obvious way

In b4 we bought 90s tech, confirmed AI feature not included lol...

Kito hanya mampu beli 2nd hand

PLA is peaceful they will never attack small countries

Only usa and Israel bully small countries



This post has been edited by Raddus: Jun 16 2025, 08:53 PM

If malaysia can softmod these f18 with advanced radars and missiles then maybe can stand up

Use these as bait and switch spamm BVR missiles

Whole swarm of f18 while at the back more advanced fighter will do the job

This may turn out to be a positive....

Modern fighter jets, are just too overwhelming when launched in the air. Any Alien forces, will just spam cruise missile to kill any or all runways.

After that, they are just sitting ducks.

I believe we can fly.

Same question, what are the F18s for if they are not for protection against neighbouring conflicts. Which country arms itself not against neighbours but for long distance confrontation? If we can't even match our neighbours, which country should our F18s be targeting against? Conversely, our neighbours assets are targeting against which country?

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