LANGKAWI (Dec 4): BNS has selected the Gowind frigate from DCNS for the LCS project. The company is set to display a model of the Gowind frigate at its booth for Lima 2011. However before I left the Mahsuri hall at 630pm today the model has yet to be put up although the stand containing the text was already prepared to be put up.
I will post the picture of the model perhaps by tomorrow morning. The text says the ship will be 107 metres long with a displacement of 2750 tonnes. That would make it a FFG not a LCS or SGPV.
The model sports what appears to be a Bofors MK4 57mm gun, an eight (updated) cell ESSM launcher, a Rheimental FCR front and back, two 30mm Otobreda guns and a big helo deck.
Word is that the contract for the ship WILL NOT be signed at Lima though.
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by six launcher, do you mean 6 cell MK41 that provides a capacity of 24 missiles?
I am not anti defence spending but using cold hard cash at this moment to bau another six brand new frigates is a bit stainning to the economy of the country-next year the recession will really hit us.
Would it not be better to upgrade the existing 6 NGPV? Arm them to the hilt as these ships are here, ready and available.This will make these PV's more capable, maximise their structure and save the country lots of money.The new ships can be baought when the world economy improves
anyways, from the picture it looks more like a standard 4x2 MK41 thou.
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Its probably a six cell Sylver launcher
I've never heard of anyone going for a 6 cell VLS! The design also looks a bit top heavy.
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Yes its a six VLS most probably for Aster 15
Recession already hit us although not that bad because of the pump priming by the gomen, especially the RM60 billion MRT and the ever expanded budget of the LCCT from RM2billion to RM4 billion to name a fewla. The issue is whether gomen should borrow some more to pump primed the economy next year, given our Debt to GDP ration is almost 54% and revenue only inching by about only RM3 billion to nRM189 billion.
So whether we should go ahead with this RM6 billion SGPV project, your guess is as good as mine but not having it also will create a capability gap in the future, especially we will rely more and more from oil money and less and less from other commodities and E&E sector. Not having a strong deterrrent force to protect our deep offshore oilfield could invite troble in the future. Currently we would have to rely on the 2 lekiu and 4 laksamana and 2 scorpene as deterrent. kasturi AFAIK is going through upgrades right.
Ym Lee - Would it not be better to upgrade the existing 6 NGPV? Arm them to the hilt as these ships are here, ready and available.
We don't need new hulls in the water to go to war but to patrol our waters and meet our other daily operational commitments!! Even if we fit out the Kedah class with missiles, the fact remains that the RMN is still very over stretched....
Not bad.It should be called a corvette though. Not a frigate. The guns should be bigger. When the anti ship missile is out, thats when the gun comes in. They have more ammo. Like the ole day.
4 ESSM missiles can fit into 1 Mk 41 VLS cell. An 8-Cell Mk 41 VLS would mean up to 32 ESSM.
Yes we should buy only what we can afford.See, the Europeans are all selling their planes, their tanks, their ships now as they can no longer afford them.
So even if we need to stretch our resources so be it until the good time is here again ad we can afford them.
Marhalim,
In total how many ESSM will it carry?