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MMEA/coast guard OPV, donated from Japan (credits malaysiandefence)

In the near future, the coast guard will augment these ship with 3 more Damen 1800 OPV with one is scheduled to be launched later this year

 

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CL-415 belonged to the coast guard. Along with 4 Mi-17s belonged to the fire department, they become the mainstay of forest fire fighting effort in Malaysia and Indonesia for years.

 

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EADS(later Airbus) CN-235

Lockheed C-130H

Airbus A400M

With 5*CN-235, 14*C-130 and 4*A400M (as well as several white tailed C-130s in Airod storage), transport aircraft is one of the few things the air force isn't lacking of (credits malaysiandefence)

 

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AV8 Gempita , The army is getting 257 units of this vehicles in different configuration(credits malaysiandefence)

The next plan is to get 6x6 armored vehicle for a cheaper, more generalized troop transport, of which the turkish firm FNSS (the original manufacturer) also offer 6x6 variant of Gempita .

 

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Exercise Cope Taufan 2014

 

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Various patrol craft, interceptor craft and special duty craft owned by marine police (credits malaysiandefence)

 

[Junglejim]

what's the story of the Mig29, why was it such a nightmare for the RMAF?

 

[Josiah]

Exercise Cope Taufan 2014

Ahh I remember these photos. One of my all time favourite and I read an article about it written by Tyler Rogoway. Needless to say I became a fan of his and his website is one of the first websites I visit every morning before checking my work email. Here's the link to the article: https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/us-air-forces-f-22s-f-15s-just-battled-one-of-their-m-1596305711

 

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what's the story of the Mig29, why was it such a nightmare for the RMAF?

It was maintenance intensive with shorter service interval compared to equivalent western aircraft. The air force spents around MYR300 million or roughly USD75 million dollar per year to maintain them flyable condition, at the cost of USD5 million per aircraft per year. Such is the cost for an aircraft whose main job is air policing and CAP which could be done by a Hawk 208 which is cheaper to operate.

The plan is to replace them (and other aircraft such as Aermacchi MB-339 and Hawks) with LCA programme. Russia offered to trade in these migs for additional Su-30MKM,Su-35 or even MiG-35. Whether on not the the offer will be accepted or not depends on the old man (PM) himself.

 

[Junglejim]

Ah I see, wrong aircraft for the job. The RMAF issue with the Mig29 keeps being used an example when people talk about buying Russian arms here, even if its a different story with their helos and SU line of fighters.

 

[ayanamitard]

The army operates 2 very similar types of AIFV, ACV-300 Adnan (from turkey) and K200A1 MIFV (from korea). They are both very similar although the Adnan's armour is rated to withstand 14.5mm vs 12.7mm for MIFV. The only real way to distinguish Adnan and MIFV is that the adnan has sharpshooter turret while MIFV uses open cupola, and even then it's not 100 percent correct because there are Adnans and MIFV that are converted into 81mm mortar carrier

A recapitalization program is being planned that will standardize both variants of the vehicle to reduce logistical footprint as well as to improve mobility and capability to fight in network centric warfare (credits malaysiandefence)

 

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Exercise 'Semangat Bersatu' with Singaporean Armed Force. Credit : BTDM

 

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Laksamana-class Corvette. Meant for Iraqi navy until gulf war happened and the ships were bought by Malaysia. With6*Otomat Mk 2 SSM, they used to be the most potent ship in RMN fleet although the missiles were long since being removed and they were relegated to patrol duty (credits malaysiandefence)

 

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Radpanzer Condor, Once the backbone of the army's mechanized units, they are now being slowly replaced by other much more capable armored vehicles such as the Adnan and Gempita (credits malaysiandefence)

There were plans to remanufacture the Condors, which includes new engine and transmission as well as other design change that would improve creature comfort and protection

However with unjustifiablly high cost (up to MYR 3 billion or around USD 700 million to upgrade ~300 of these vehicles) as well limitation on the platform itself and the ever changing threats, the plan seems to being axed by the new regime. Instead, the money would be used for new kind of vehicles; MRV, armored car,(ala Otokar Cobra or VBL) and 6x6 APC as the army's new battle taxis

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

Does that upgrade to the vehicle look very interesting, is it done locally or is it a foreign company? If done locally, it can be offered to current Condor users (so few), and this would allow them to keep them more in operation and some more dollars would arrive for the country (which is never left over)

 

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It's done locally

 

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AV4 Lipan Bara MRV. The army realized that they lacked suitable armored vehicle for low intensity patrol and they needed something that has lower footprint than a 8*8 or tracked IFV or even the Condor but have better protection (especially against IED threat) than any soft skinned vehicles or an ASV like what the police is using.

It has V-shaped hull and protection is rated at Stanag 3

 

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Armored vehicle belonged to the police