the barrel's life is short, we know because we have been
shooting all over the world from india , taiwan, thailand to new
zealand every year. plus we got alot more artillery pieces than
malaysia ever does.
due to our constant use of the guns for trainning to maintain
proficiency, thus resulting in much higher wear and tear. we knew
the importance of having lots of spares barrels and the ability to
manufacture the barrels locally.
given that malaysia army do not conduct such intense trainning
yearly due to cost, its even more doubtful they will actually buy
spare barrels just to support their limited number of guns.
its probably alot cheaper for malaysia army to replace the
barrel as when is needed rather then stockpile anything.
a sudden malaysian upsurge in barrel stockpile order delivery
from oversea would surely raise eyebrows and raise the alert of her
neighbours.
singapore OTOH can stockpile huge number of barrels, we could
even manufacture as many guns as we want and report any figure we
want, keeping the enemy guessing how many guns do we really
have.
This really stretches logic.
In the first place a barrel may last longer than the entire span
of a war. Even so it's only one of a number of spare parts and no
logical person would logically conjecture that it is treated any
differently in the army supply inventory, much less declare that
having a factory is an advantage.
Why so insecure? We have advantages in training, education,
quantity, technology, standardisation, integration and enough
others to win hands down. Why the need to speculate that they don't
have enough spare barrels?
You do know they have spare jet engines. Why not spare barrels
if they are cheaper? Don't worry, you can still claim the barrels
have been stolen.
Your argument about secrecy. You could extend your argument to
say our preparations for war will be detected because we must send
our forces overseas for training, whereas they can train in secret
at home. Won't make sense, right?
