KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is to officiate the new shipyard in Bagan Datoh tomorrow. The ceremony will be conducted after he officiated the Bagan Datoh Umno division meeting headed by its MP and Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
The shipyard is reportedly to be the facility to built two of three MPSS to be built for the navy.
NGV Tech Sdn Bhd, is the preferred local partner for the MPSS project and since it had already signed an MOU to purchase a shipyard in South Korea (during Lima 2009), one can surmised that a baby Dokdo would probably be the chosen design.
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Through deck = bad idea. This is all part of the payoff for rescuing the NGPV after the Amin Shah fiasco.
I thought they will choose the real dokdo but at last, they have decided to choose the mini-Dokdo variant. Anyway there is no problem for this to purchase 13 ships where 3 MPSS and 10 training ships at RM 2.2 Billion whereas the local will benefit as well from the project that will need more than 5000 workers.
See the clip for the NGV Tech Sdn Bhd Shipyard launched where PM Najib was there on Sunday... you can see the conceptual MPSS in the background. Unless the screwed up, it seems to look like a LPD17.
Yea lah, i agree with u, look like LPD17, not even baby dokdo design?
Marhalim: I surmised it will be a Baby Dokdo design, its not written in gold....
LPD17? isn't that the San Antonio class from the US? How come the deal is coming from S.Korea?
Well that will be good too i think...but does anyone think the price tag is lower than a frigate/NGPV class ships?
PS: Plez provide the link for the clip...
Do you guys mean the San Antonio class LPD17?
Something similiar to that actually makes more sense as the Dokdo has a very large flight deck, more like a mini-carrier.
Marhalim: Dont rejoice yet, the Type 071 LPD from China also looks similar to the LPD17......
I prefer mistral cos of the tech/ user friendly, less man power and many countries likes it includs russia.....
Mistral is very unlikely as the government, already having awarded France the Scorpene contract, will not award it another big ticket/high profile deal so soon.
If indeed the MRSS's are to be built in a Malaysian owned yard in S.Korea the design will probably be a South Korean one. Then again, until it's sign in ink, nothing is certain.I wonder however, what is the RMN's preference.
Yes, but are we going to buy some sort of LCU/LCAC to get the stuff ashore? And does it mean that the Mahawangsa and Inderasakti are going to be retired? The main issue with through deck designs is the need for elevators to move the aircraft to and from the hangar deck.
Steel is not so expensive...it's the darned mission equipment that is pricey. I hope we use an e4xisting c4i system to avoid yet another one to add to out collection! I'm happy with 30mm cannon.
The big question is whether manpower is a problem and I suspect it is. The Indera Sakti class can probably serve for another 10 years minimum. Both have been in the dry-dock at Lumut and I suspect after the Aden deployment, need to go in again.Equipping the new ships with a 30mm to save ringgit is alright if there is an adequate number of escorts and a strong air umbrella, unfortunately there isn't.
Marhalim: I am assuming that the two Inderasakti class ships will be retired once all three MRSS are commissioned into service. With our luck it will be another 15 years.
On whether there will be a manpower issue or not, I believe what happened during initial period of the NGPV period early 2000/2001 will be repeated. Both NGVtech and BHIC will be fighting over the same set of shipyard workers which was the scenario in 2000/2001 where PSC literally forced Malaysian Shipyard Engineering in Johor to almost a standstill by raiding its engineers and workers. At the moment, I dont think they will be mass exodus to NGVTech just yet as the company has not signed the contract for the MpSS, it is now just a promise. It will be very interesting if both the NGPV Batch II and MPSS projects starts at the same time, then it will be interesting....