stupid Malaysian Naval project
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Multi-Billion-Dollar Malaysian Navy Deal Intact Despite Delays: Official
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, KUALA LUMPUR
A controversial multi-billion-dollar contract to build 27 high-tech vessels for the Malaysian navy is intact despite delays and calls for an inquiry, a company official said June 27.
PSC Naval Dockyard signed a 24.3 billion ringgit ($6.4 billion) contract in 1998 to build the heavily-armed offshore patrol vessels (OPV) over a 10-year period. It was due to deliver the first two last year.
But the handover of the boats, built with foreign partners led by GermanyÂ’s ThyssenKrupp AG, was postponed after numerous technical problems during sea trials.
The Asian Wall Street Journal reported in March that the government was looking for ways to unwind the contract because it was increasingly sceptical that PSC could deliver.
The opposition has urged a probe into the delays, saying the government had already invested 2.5 billion ringgit in the project and it could turn into “the biggest financial scandal in Malaysia’s history”.
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OK-I post something stupid from malaysia......to be fair....
Malaysians sometimes very fair ...... -
The threat doesn't really come from naval ships, i won't be bothered even if they are building double the amount.
With sea-skimming missiles , taking out ships seems to be much easier.
Just need to order more air-launched harpoons.
yeah, idwar i agree with your thread title -
If PSC gets liquidated..well , then too bad....
If RMN wants to control the seas , then they should let Malaysian pilots train and learn from Israeli pilots.
Control of the air amounts to inevitable control of the sea , it is always much easier to hit an object in the sea which is moving at a much slower speed in comparison to hitting to a fast object in the air. -
Due to hatred towards the Jews....do u think they want to learn from the Israelis?Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:If RMN wants to control the seas , then they should let Malaysian pilots train and learn from Israeli pilots. -
worst thing is they cant even get along well enough with the americans.Originally posted by riken1974:Due to hatred towards the Jews....do u think they want to learn from the Israelis? -
I sense a MBT coming in to crush this threadOriginally posted by dragg:worst thing is they cant even get along well enough with the americans.
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You know something, this guy simply cracks me up with his stupidity nowadays.
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Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:If RMN wants to control the seas , then they should let Malaysian pilots train and learn from Israeli pilots.
Duh..... -
why?Originally posted by greengoblin:
Duh.....
dont you know our airforce are trained by the israelis too. they are the best. -
I know... but read SMAPLionHeart's post carefully..Originally posted by dragg:why?
dont you know our airforce are trained by the israelis too. they are the best.
I rather bet on 4 D then to bet on Malaysia letting Israel train their pilots -
Israel uses Muslim troops too, if you do not know.........in politics anything can happen......don't be surprised if Malaysia chooses to be pragmatic over Muslim sensitivities.... -
That is for showmanship only! If u ask the Muslim Israeli abt his vocation,he will say' I'm a cook/driver'.....Originally posted by idwar:Israel uses Muslim troops too, if you do not know.........in politics anything can happen......don't be surprised if Malaysia chooses to be pragmatic over Muslim sensitivities.... -
Haaretz Daily,
Wed., December 15, 2004 Tevet 3, 5765
Extracted from http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/514546.html
Regrettably, Sunday's deaths of five IDF soldiers from the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion in Rafah does not symbolize the common destiny and integration of Bedouin in Israeli society, but rather the contrary. From the reactions of the families to their deaths, including the refusal of four of the families to have their sons buried in military funerals, one can understand that there are a lot of reservations about enlisting in the army in their communities.
Yusuf Jahaja, father of Sgt. Sa'id Jahaja, was the only one who agreed that his son be buried in a military ceremony - but he asked to cover the Israeli flag on the coffin with a blanket. He said that in the eyes of many his son was perceived as a collaborator and even a traitor, but that his son regarded army service as a way to get ahead in life, and Yusuf agreed.
Sa'id, who was killed in Rafah, was an Arab Muslim from the village of Arara. He served in the battalion known as the "Bedouin Battalion" even though he was not a Bedouin, which raises the question of whether there is not something problematic in the formation of battalions made up of people from one sector of society, particularly a sector that suffers from discrimination, and whether the assignments and missions given to such a unit are not derived from the social status of the soldiers who serve in it.
The Desert Reconnaissance Battalion, for example, which is mostly comprised of Bedouin, has spent the last four years in the line of fire in Rafah, while other soldiers serving on the front lines are in rotation, not permanently positioned there.
The Desert Reconnaissance Battalion accepts into its ranks Bedouin, Arabs and Muslims who are not obliged to enlist. Service in the unit is a way for young people to escape the economic crisis in which they live at home. Sometimes it is the only way they can get a steady job. The need to risk their lives just to earn a livelihood is also discomforting, especially considering just how much the Bedouin suffer from discrimination against them in budgets and infrastructure for their communities.
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5 Muslim troops died for Israel in a battle in Dec 2004...........cooks, my foot.........the Jews can trust their Muslim guys to fight.....
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As it is, I think we can already buy 4D considering that idwar is amazingly posting an article criticising Malaysia's defence policies.Originally posted by greengoblin:I know... but read SMAPLionHeart's post carefully..
I rather bet on 4 D then to bet on Malaysia letting Israel train their pilots
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Yes, Israeli never treat the war against the Palestinian as a religion war, it is territory war, but the sad thing is that muslims from the rest the world treat it as such, thus you have so many Arab/Israeli wars, and now we have the AQ , Hizbollah terrorist group who are not even Palestinian.Originally posted by idwar:Israel uses Muslim troops too, if you do not know.........in politics anything can happen......don't be surprised if Malaysia chooses to be pragmatic over Muslim sensitivities....
When politic mixed with religion, you got all kind of sh!t now. -
heh 7 years over dued.......and for so much money too.Should have just contracted the damn thing over to the Germans fully
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The Israelis I know and have conversed with do not equate the Palestinian conflict with religious war too.
In fact, one fellow photographer told me that Israel has been doing a good job trying to integrate them into normal civil society and that there are many Israelis who are holding back on revenge even though their relatives and children have been killed by suicide bombers.
Most of them just want to get on with lives, as do the majority of Palestinians and Arabs that live within Israel.It's the world media that really blows up the scale of the mistrust and hate until it has become a misguided rallying cry. -
hatred only breeds hatred.
hope sg and malaysia will have peace..