MY bought almost everything more expensive than others, perhaps
some of it went into the pockets of cronies etc. 
For example , the 2 Scorpene non AIP Basic models cost them USD972
millions,
and SKorea got three AIP U214s for only USD1.12bil.
That's mean MY paid USD486mil per non AIP boat,
and SKorea paid USD373mil per AIP boat!!!
A difference of USD113mil per unit !!!!
Although, S Korean are licenced producing them in Korea, and
perhaps need lesser training than MY's newbies, but still fxxking
expensive especially they are non AIP variant!!!!
As for the 2 Sodermanland class (upgraded AIP Vastergotland class
), that cost only USD300mil( not sure how you guys know abt it,
afterall it is not officially announced), I think certainly worth
it, becos I believe it will give us the edge over the navies of the
region for at least 1 decade or so.
In fact, I think our 2 Sodermanland class will be operationally
ready before 2010 if we decide now, in fact upgrade per boat only
take one year, so we could have one delivered to us by the end of
2006 and the other 2007, so by 2008~09 , they should be both
operationally ready .
And as for MY, their 2 boats will be delivered by the end of 2009,
at most they will be both operationally ready by the end of of
2010, most likely 2011 & later, depending on the crew.
