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Malaysia signed a deal on Wednesday to buy its first submarines to patrol its vast coastline but officials were quick to deny that the country was in an arms race with neighbouring Singapore.

They said the three French submarines worth up to 1.04 billion euros ($1.1 billion) will be used to police the 4,490-km (2,806-miles) long coastline susceptible to threats of piracy and illegal migration.

“We’ve such a large body of water to police. We need submarines,” Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak told reporters.

“Don’t raise this spectre that we’re starting an arms race or competing with anyone,” he said when asked if Malaysia was building a more superior weapons line-up than Singapore.

“Singapore has got submarines, fighter aircraft, Apache helicopters and nobody makes a big fuss about it,” Najib said. “Why is it when Malaysia buys, everyone makes such a big fuss?”

This year alone, Malaysia has committed to buy Polish tanks and Pakistani anti-tank rockets and is also considering new FA-18 Super Hornets or Russian Sukhoi SU-30 combat aircraft.

Defence analysts say Malaysia is trying to rival Singapore’s arsenal but local officials deny that, saying Kuala Lumpur’s defence expenditure is less than 2.5 percent of gross national product compared to Singapore’s 4.9 percent.

Under Wednesday’s deal, French warship builder DCN will supply Malaysia two of the new-generation, Scorpene SSK-class submarines and an overhauled Agosta 70 submarine.

Reuters

So now vietnam is not the only superpower in the region has the most powerful navy forces and submarines as its self-claim?

Hello vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia are waiting for you!
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Determined Tiger said:
So now vietnam is not the only superpower in the region has the most powerful navy forces and submarines as its self-claim?

Hello vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia are waiting for you!
We're still is the only superpower in the region with deadly weapons like Anti-carrier nuke-capable ballistic missile Shaddock and CBU-55 :coffee:

Don't forget even China also don't have any kind of weapon that can compare with Shaddock ( and maybe CBU-55 too )
 
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look like the world is coming in an arms race
 
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Vietnam feels thread from china
Indonesia from Australia
Singapore and Malaysia feel thread from Indonesi
 
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We're still is the only superpower in the region with deadly weapons like Anti-carrier nuke-capable ballistic missile Shaddock and CBU-55 :coffee:

Don't forget even China also don't have any kind of weapon that can compare with Shaddock ( and maybe CBU-55 too )

Are you sure, what are you saying?

Republic of Singapore Air Force is the most powerful air command in ASEAN countries.

RSAF is a First Class Air Force.

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Gratz to Malaysia. Malaysia and Singapore are our allies.

Australia is planning to have a fleet of 12 submarines in the future when we get rid of the disasters that are the collin class.
 
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Gratz to Malaysia. Malaysia and Singapore are our allies.

Australia is planning to have a fleet of 12 submarines in the future when we get rid of the disasters that are the collin class.

Austraila by deafult should have the largest navy in the region...you have a whole continent to protect.
 
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Austraila by deafult should have the largest navy in the region...you have a whole continent to protect.

Yes, they do have a very large landmass to defend but fortunately for them they have no enemies except for perhaps New Zealand and England on the cricket field and South Africa on the rugby field. And all these are close friends anyway. That is why Australia could do without spending too much on defence all these years. Being an American ally of course helped. Oh yes, they got bombed once or twice by the Japanese in WWII but nothing since then.
 
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Are you sure, what are you saying?

Republic of Singapore Air Force is the most powerful air command in ASEAN countries.

RSAF is a First Class Air Force.
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We shot down thousand US's fighters, US dare not use stealth craft F-117( that Singapore air force can not have even now) to help Thailand during Viet-Thai conflict, so Singapore air force is just small problem , our SAM not only can handle Singapore air force but alos China air forces well .

No one in region can compare with US's forces in 70s , even China also can not have any nuclear Carrier like US in 70s, so pls don't compare VN's army to any one in ASEAN , we're far stronger than them , and we have nuclear capable ballistic missile when another ASEAN nations can not have too.
 
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Vietnam isn't a super power lol.

Austraila by deafult should have the largest navy in the region...you have a whole continent to protect.

True. Australia is doubling the size of it's navy currently considering the huge arms race going on at the moment.

Indonesia is aggressively acquiring equipment so it's a knee jerk response from malaysia, australia and surrounding nations.
 
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