SHAH ALAM: This is the way. It appears that the Gempita production will continue until 2021 as I had predicted about a year ago. The continuing production although limited to a small number of units was confirmed by pictures of the Deftech plant in Pekan, Pahang on December 4.
The pictures were published in the MAF headquarters Facebook page following the visit of the CDF, Gen Affendi Buang to the plant.
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PEKAN, 4 Dis 2020 β Panglima Angkatan Tentera, Jeneral Tan Sri Datoβ Sri Hj Affendi bin Buang TUDM telah mengadakan lawatan rasmi ke DEFTECH di Pekan, Pahang hari ini.
Lawatan tersebut bertujuan untuk melihat operasi pemasangan GEMPITA dan seterusnya memandu uji Kenderaan Taktikal Ringan (Light Tactical Vehicle) di Makmal Integrasi Sistem.
Beliau turut melihat Sistem Pengurusan Medan Perang (Battlefielfd Management System), Navigasi Taktikal (Tactical Navigation) dan Sistem Platform Pengurusan (Platform Management System) yang dibangunkan sendiri oleh DEFTECH System Intergation.
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Two of the pictures published (above) showed at least five Gempitas in various stages of completion. Yes I know there is still around 20 days before the end of 2020 but from the pictures it is unlikely that these vehicles could be completed and undergo factory testing before being handed over to the Army for acceptance testings prior to the official handover.
Army chief Gen Zamrose Mohd Zain also visited the Deftech plant on November 27 though the Gempitas could only be seen in the background of the pictures. On Nov.23, Zamrose also attended a demonstration this time involving the AENNBCRV Gempita of the 12 Skn RAJD at Gemas. This was the first time, pictures of the vehicle was publicly shown after it entered service with the unit about two years or so ago.
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the furthest from the camera, near the corrugated wall is a SURV variant with the wrapped vingtaqsII mast seen on the rear of the vehicle.
So how many more vehicles to be completed from the 257 vehicle order? Turkey seems not to consider these gempita assembled in malaysia in their export numbers. for last year, they only declared the 3 CBRN recce gempitas in their export list, as those are CBU from turkey.
anyway i have written a long reply in the topic run for your lives, which i think is very important for me to talk about. email me which part you dont want to publish.
related to the gempita.
Seems like Denel south africa is in big trouble. The problem is that there is no suppprt from south african government on the company. It got a few export contracts, but had to be cancelled because they cannot get bank guarantees for their production.
If it can be taken over for cheap, IMO it is a company Malaysia should take over. At least the division that makes turret. Currently it supplies the turret and ingwe missiles for the gempita.
There is a precedent to malaysia taking over and controlling south african firm. South African major petroleum company, Engen Petroleum, is majority owned by Petronas for more than 20 years already.
"Beliau turut melihat Sistem Pengurusan Medan Perang (Battlefielfd Management System), Navigasi Taktikal (Tactical Navigation) dan Sistem Platform Pengurusan (Platform Management System) yang dibangunkan sendiri oleh DEFTECH System Intergation."
An indigenous BMS? Great!! I would suppose they will installed it in every gempita or only the command variants right? I hope that BMS would eventuallu make its way to our PT91s as well.
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No it is supposed to go into other platforms of the military. Gempita got its own BMS already.
Good news.
Its not all gloom for Malaysian fefence industry..
@Marhalim
"No it is supposed to go into other platforms of the military. Gempita got its own BMS already."
Thanks marhalim. So Gempitas use BMS from thales right? If so, our own BMS should be able to operate/connected with Gempita's BMS as well in order to fully capitalize both BMS usage.
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No, that's the reason Deftech designed its own BMS
AVR version.... Seems no AVR version has been seen yet though it is part of the 12 variant.. The fitter version has been fielded already... Any news on that AVR version...
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Probably part of the last batch
What was that "Kenderaan Taktikal Ringan (Light Tactical Vehicle)"? Something to consider as Condor replacement?
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Something like the GK-M1
A Denel takeover? That's worth considering. But is there any Malaysian company or outright government agency that's interested in taking over Denel? I personally have not read (recently) from any South African source indicating Denel is offered for sale to any outside bidder. But all the same, a very interesting preposition.
It's a G-wagon replacement
O/T
As mentioned by ... in another post France indicated that they are close to finalising a deal with Indonesia on the sale of 36 Rafales. Not only the Indonesians are also weighing on the options of getting Scorpene subs and Gowind corvettes.
Other than wondering on how are they going to pay for all that, I am also wondering about the plans on our side. No LCS, LCA also mute, LMS halfway there...
Also an interesting snippet that I got from The Warzone comments area is that apparently the Indonesians Navy isn\'t satisfied with the build quality of the Damen ships, hence their interest in Les Gowinds.