[email protected], you are obviously not familiar with the numbers. We
heavily outnumber any potential opponent in every category except
warships. We have more men, light tanks, MBTs, IFVs, artillery,
anti-aircraft systems, fighters, helicopters, logistics support,
etc than either our northern or our southern neighbor, sometimes
more than both combined. Our systems are also arguably superior. Go
and do more research.
Tank tactics are heavily terrain dependant. The problem is that the
terrain of the Malay peninsula from an operational POV is not in
the public domain. I am sure that MINDEF spends great effort
keeping up to date, but we don't know what they know. We don't know
how much is jungle, plantation, paddies, swamps, etc. We don't know
what kind of roads are where or how strong the bridges are. We
don't know where the "go" and "no go" terrain is for different
types of vehicles.
But we can guess based on the actions of MINDEF. All recent SAF
armored vehicles have had a width limit of 3m and weight limit of
30 tonnes. That leads me to think that, based on MINDEF terrain
studies, vehicles of those parameters will be able to maneuver
effectively on the peninsula. Maybe the peninsula is crisscrossed
with 3m wide dirt tracks or the plantations have trees 3m apart?
Maybe most of the bridges can take 30 tonnes?
Also, our tankers train in a certain type of armored warfare. This
allows us to guess the doctrine of the SAF. It is not wise to
reveal too much about this, but they certainly do not intend to dig
in and fight in point defense. Again, it is clear that the SAF has
a plan, hopefully based on accurate technical intelligence.
