SG New IFV & air defense upgrades.Cheers!

last SG · 2008-01-26T22:26:00+00:00

Different weapons on armour provide different abilities.Larger calibre weapons (75mm or more) are actually very good direct fire support weapons.Mortar is go...

lionnoisy SG

Great news fr Janes Defense Weekly.

Sg buy new IFV?---which type,how many and when
24.10.27 New IFV for 3 SG Battlion . Confirmed by then Chief of Army Neo KH.Terrex AV81 IFV is among the platforms under under consideration then
With the reports stated initial deliver from end of 2008,i think the platform
was already decided.Any news?

2.Air defense sys upgrade

follwing gears scheduled for updrade

image replaced.
AS 332 Super Puma (AS332M) 332 Super Puma (AS332M)under extensive upgrade.

Rapier ---Request for Info released.

RBS 70 System (Bn)---in 5 year

MIM 23 B I-Hawk (I-FU)---in 8 years

3.AMRAAM on MY soil?
Every country has her rights to stock up weapons.Just for info.

JDW 19.09.2007 show the following report:
Malaysia plans software upgrade for its F/A-18s,Dzirhan Mahadzir,
JDW Correspondent,Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia is upgrade the software systems on its six F/A-18C and two F/A-18D Hornets to allow them to fully utilise the latest weapon systems for the aircraft.

The upgrade is expected to cost up to USD17 million and is to be completed by 2011. Work will be carried out by a US Navy-appointed contractor as the upgrade programme will be handled by the US Department of Defense under the Foreign Military Sales programme.

The upgrades are necessary since Malaysia's F/A-18s have not undergone any software upgrade since their delivery in 1997 and thus are not fully able to utilise weapon systems introduced for the Hornets since then, such as the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) and the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).

Malaysia currently has less than two dozen AMRAAMs in storage on US territory; it will bring them into the country this year. Malaysia has also sent a request for an undisclosed number of JDAMs that is currently pending with the US.

4.If Terrex AV81 IFV is chosen,how effective it is?
I cant tell you.But Bionix ,the wheeled product from ST ,is the one of the
four finalists of US MAV
multi--billions dollar selection---the ONLY one non--US products!!

So,what do u think of this ST
Terrex Infantry Fighting Vehicle,The Terrex AV8?

look at this news?

Medium Armored Vehicle (MAV)
Interim Armored Vehicle (IAV)

mr_sotong SG

why terrex when we already have bionix?

gary1910 SG

Originally posted by lionnoisy:

3.AMRAAM on MY soil?
Every country has her rights to stock up weapons.Just for info.

JDW 19.09.2007 show the following report:
Malaysia plans software upgrade for its F/A-18s,Dzirhan Mahadzir,
JDW Correspondent,Kuala Lumpur

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Malaysia is upgrade the software systems on its six F/A-18C and two F/A-18D Hornets to allow them to fully utilise the latest weapon systems for the aircraft.

The upgrade is expected to cost up to USD17 million and is to be completed by 2011. Work will be carried out by a US Navy-appointed contractor as the upgrade programme will be handled by the US Department of Defense under the Foreign Military Sales programme.

The upgrades are necessary since Malaysia's F/A-18s have not undergone any software upgrade since their delivery in 1997 and thus are not fully able to utilise weapon systems introduced for the Hornets since then, such as the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) and the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).

Malaysia currently has less than two dozen AMRAAMs in storage on US territory; it will bring them into the country this year. Malaysia has also sent a request for an undisclosed number of JDAMs that is currently pending with the US.
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MY ordered 20 AIM-120C AMRAAM in 2005 and now the report above stated that the F/A-18 could not utilise them and only after upgrades to be conducted after 2011!!!! Laughing

6 years sitting on the shelf for nothing!!!( Remember that all missiles have certain a shelf life)

You could only find such co

gary1910 SG

There is a plan to fully mechanised all the frontline infantry units.

So the future infantry will not longer be foot soldiers but highly mobile force with 8x8 wheeled IFV and other variants.

The armoured units will remained as the tracked armoured force.

Infantry units in PDF will remain as foot soldiers .

Guards will as it is and so on...........

My speculation on the future of SAF
I hope that our new mechanised infantry will be equipped with own 8x8 wheeled IFV, 8x8 wheeled mortar carrier, 8x8 wheeled 105mm FS etc....Similar to US Stryker Bde.

Our armoured force will be fully tracked with Leo 2 , BX, Bronco MTC etc.
( So buy more Leo 2 to total qty of more than 200!! Cool )

Which I should classified the Armoured Bde as Heavy Bde, Mechanised Infantry as Medium Bde and lastly the PDF and Guards as the Light Bde.

Of course the Guards Bde will be Air Assualt and Amphibious Bde.

CM06 SG

Good news mainly to me.

In my opinion, those SAMs coming online in 5 years will be a little too slow considering that in 5 years we will have at least 18 (maybe 36?) MKMs fully trained and operational. Rapiers reach is a little too short i find (but what to do?)

My views differs slightly from garys, while we are looking towards a majority mechanised force, all mechanised forces will have problems with fuel being the biggest item.

We will most likely have

Armoured brigades (Armour!)

Rapid reaction/airborne forces (you know what they are)

URBAN Ops mechanised brigades. Frankly i see the Terrax or any wheeled brigade level combat forces to be used in urban combat settings. (Your enemy will not stand in the open to let you kill them sadly.) Wheeled vehicles allow the rapid and economical movement of troops under urban combat conditions whilst providing adequate firepower and protection. (Not to mention wheels are much less noisy and allows tactical movement.

Our Infantry will most likely be paired up with Broncos, fuel economical + support+ protection and almost all terrain passable. (To ignore the idea of men moving on foot will seriously hampen and restrict our ops on a grand scale.)

lionnoisy SG

watch the Corporate Video

not a propaganda video.

u will know more of SG capability.

transformation

I_love_my_toilet SG

Originally posted by lionnoisy:
[b]watch the Corporate Video

not a propaganda video.

u will know more of SG capability.

transformation[/b]

well all these are not new...

its an adaptation(or copy) from the US army

what they called "information superiority"

just like the Terrex 8x8 (who started the stryker ?)

ultimately, we will have our own version of Future Combat System (FCS)

Just glad to see that our forces is at the technology front, regionally

ROX MAN ! Quite excited frankly Mr. Green

duotiga83 SG

i though RMAF operate 8 F/A-18D Hornet? Confused

Fatum SG

robber come to tekong, can catch or not ? ....

I_love_my_toilet SG

well assume that osama is not ficticious

he is still out there Laughing

at least SAF took slightly less than a wk

wahahaha Mr. Green

CM06 SG

It’s not that we cannot catch the robbers with our tech. But to show that we can will cause great alarm i think. Besides, laucnhing UAVs, radars and sensors to catch 2 robbers very over kill. Let some NSF nubs scare scare a bit to catch them on foot more learning.

Fatum SG

It caused me greater alarm when it took hundreds of troops and regulars to catch three wretched, starving robbers ..... after how many days again ? ....

we need to re-evaluate the value of field craft ..... all these new fangled sensors still counts for naught in jungle warfare ..... it still boils down to field craft and tracking skills ....

I_love_my_toilet SG

well 7 years have passed

i'm rather disappointed that given many countries' resources,

no single clue about the whereabouts of osama (i hope u still remember him)

tats alarming too

n look where are we acquiring our technology from ??? Rolling Eyes

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

You seem to think technology is magic.

It's just a tool, how things play out still depend on how creative you are.

wonderamazement SG

Mobility is important. Cool

specialOps SG

Take Janes' articles with a pinch of salt...they don't know anything except from certain sources, which are not always reliable.

Their estimation of time/date is way off anyway.

lionnoisy SG

SpecialOps.senior Member

22 January 2008
Take Janes' articles with a pinch of salt...they don't know anything except from certain sources, which are not always reliable.

Their estimation of time/date is way off anyway.

1.May be my English is damn poor.JDW 24.10.27 gave a long article on SAF,
quoting 3 Chief from 3 services.
The IFV news is quoting The Chief of Army.Is it clear,Sir?

Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Great news fr Janes Defense Weekly.
Sg buy new IFV?---which type,how many and when
24.10.27 New IFV for 3 SG Battlion . Confirmed by then Chief of Army Neo KH.Terrex AV81 IFV is among the platforms under under consideration then
With the reports stated initial deliver from end of 2008,i think
the platform was already decided.Any news?

I like the V-shape hull to withstand land mine of 10--12 kg

Singapore Technologies (ST) Kinetics is building prototypes of its new Terrex AV81 8 x 8 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) to meet the specific requirements of the Belgian and Turkish armies. lJDW 18.09.2002.

Simplified Spec:C130 roll on/off,10 tonnes payload,11m3 internal volume
........................passive add--on suite provide all around protection.
.........................NCB protection capable
few variants----APC,mortar,mortar and medi.

Read the brochure and cartoon in STK site .

2.SG save a lot of money by making it majority in locally and
holding the techlogy...Sometimes,
u can peep from outside ST factory and see somethings interesting.
.Dunt quote me..

tankfanatic SG

lol this is news!

Alvin.Yeoh SG

Has anybody considered that sending in all those units is actually a good chance for some "real" missions? Sure, its only 3 starving robbers but its a real objective instead of some imaginary one, it lets the commanders and men have a taste of what its like in a relatively risk free environment too. Might not be much but better than nothing.

sgf SG

2 out of 3 of those dicks were caught by Gurkhas. No comparison man. Those guys are born warriors.