Aegis Clas Destroyers

JusticeLegal SG

Should Singapore purchase such a high tech weaponary? How effective will it be in the defense of of waters? History has shown that high tech machinary may not neccessary do well in actual combat situations. One example is the Vietnam war where lowly equiped Vietcongs managed to devastated a technogically superior army. My suggestion is to use sampans loaded with explosives to blow up would be enemies. One reason being no one will suspect a sampan and two being we can put idiots to pilot the sampan to destroy enemy targets rendering their worthless life more value in this age. What are your views?

sgFish SG

yeah..and you should be the idiot thats piloting the sampan Rolling Eyes

tankee1981 SG

I saw this sampan strategy some where else but can't remember where.....I think in the Malaysia verion of our military nuts. Very Happy

tripwire SG

History has shown that high tech machinary may not neccessary do well in actual combat situations. One example is the Vietnam war where lowly equiped Vietcongs managed to devastated a technogically superior army
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that's your intepretation.... in my opinion.. technology merely enhances the combat capability of the soldier...

if the soldier or his superiors are a bunch of idiots... no high tech weapon would prevent them from loosing....

the weapon is only as effective as the man behind the weapon.....

that is until we can implant AI into some of those airheads who cant think anything else except eat sai sleep F..K Mr. Green

joker105 SG

nah... singapore mostly purchase warships n vehicle from the US at a ver low cost...
cos those items r so call old fashion n the US has no need 4 them liao so they sell...

|-|05| SG

vietnam was a political defeat not a military 1

SibeiSuayKia SG

omg ur even crappier talker den me

sgFish SG

hmm..i wonder what the topic name has got to do with this topic.

retardante.

and aegis is a radar system, not a class of ship. ta ta

CenturionMBT SG

On the other hand, it will brovide a really strong fleet based air defense. But of course that is provided if you have enuff money to buy that lah.

AkiraDen SG

My suggestion is to use sampans loaded with explosives to blow up would be enemies.

Try selling the sampans to the enemies with explosives that blow up when the idiot starts the motor. Laughing

|-|05| SG

looking at the kill ratios i doubt it was a military defeat.
Anyway back on topic
Nah....a better choice would be a Aegis Frigate. Much like the spainish ship.It would do us alot of good....since it does increase our air defence radius and a mobile platform like a ship is even better

Fairyland SG

Technology can make idiots of their operators.....when you over spec the GUI etc.....and automate the soldier into airheads.

IMO you need to leave some room for the operators to not totally trust the system such that 30% of his/her brain is running contingency scenarios.....

So if he/she is tired......then he can run with more safety margins.

But when system has an alarm and worst, an automatic fallback condition for ALL SITUATION ALL THE TIME......he/she tends to take it easy.

When things go wrong, blame it on system malfunction!

I have seen a system in Taiwan during April (very hot), when the transistors threshold driving LEDs start going haywire and alarms keep beeping off everywhere.

Wah, good training for all! Of course today everything is on BARCO screens and you have built-in simulators to wake you up. Still not quite the same.