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In other news, water is wet.

Great news indeed.

PUSPENERBAD aren't looking to arm the Bell 412's because of doctrine. Ifg anything is going to be armed with ATGM munitions, it'll either be the Fennecs and the Apaches.

Agreed, more Apaches and Bell 412's seems like a more pressing priority than MBT's right now.

Doctrinal. More or less it's the whole "boomer thinks we're ever only going to be fighting a guerrilla war" mentality. Though to be fair, there isn't many places that Leopard 2's can go around here. Money is better spent on air and portable ATGM assets.

It's either replacing them with the K2 or upgrade them to the 2A7V. Eitherway, PUSENKAV apparently doesn't want more MBT's.

Indonesian "gampang lah" mentality is what happened with that plan

Quality is the question.

The thing is that the "ideal" setup in the modern day would be a TRS-4D + Smart-L (APAR is considered somewhat obsolete in the context of more modern systems). But that would only work if someone is willing to shore up the integration costs and convince Thales and Hensoldt to share their data in...

You'll never going to see the Smart-L installed on there. The integration costs alone is going to be expensive. Not to mention whether or not Thales and Hensoldt would agree to a partnership.

Most likely, yet probably downscaled to adjust to the difference in displacement. Also, to whoever it was that was talking about a possible DDG program, if it were true it most likely won't be a hull derived from a KDX-III/Sejong-the-Great class, but rather something based off the KDDX.

This one? If the comments are correct, then thank god Terma won the tender. the TRS-4D is way better than the SMART-S that Thales offered. I'm mostly excited to see what an Iver deriative with a TRS-4D mast would look like.

The only way to reliably do that is to effectively dissolve BUMN as a government body altogether. The biggest turn off for entities like Thales, MBDA, Damen, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc. from actively pursuing having their own facilities here is largely because of the BUMN controlled monopoly...

I have a good feeling about him, but time will tell if any of his points are realized.

It's more than likely DSME. Probably won't be lost but I wouldn't say it's an overreaction. For the most part our side of the issue isn't really blameless. What else were they expecting if they kept asking to cut corners? Their Flankers can't use western munitions apart from the Paveway bomb...

Yeah, source code is only for integration. Which is more or less Intellectual Property related and is not unique to the US. China, Russia, Europe, etc. all do the same thing.

Matathir is talking out of his ***. He's only saying this for political points. Literally the only planes left flying in his gimped Air Force are his US jets and they have been supplied with all the things that they need to respond to any threat 24/7. Also.. "munitions for the F-18s could not...

Anybody know how to reach @striver44?

Jfc, why.

Doubt. Likely a Middle Eastern customer.