Deadly Weapon of Malaysian Armed Forces

The above pictures show the latest most deadly weapon in Malaysian Armed Forces. The question is "are we going to battle with our neighbours??". The answer is relative to every person's point of view. Have you heard about the famous malay proverb: "standby the umbrella before the rain"? Now i try to answer the above question with my point of view.

Recently there are a few situations in this region that need us to give a priority in the modenization of our armed forces. Back to 1990's, just after the communist rebellion surender, our armed forces seriously need the modernization in order to enter the new era of the war which is conventional war. Realizing to that matter our government through the Ministry of Defence was decided to give the full attention to the modernization programme for our armed forces.


The 90's saw the arrival of the BAE Hawk Mk108/208 which replaced the A-4C skyhawk followed by the MiG-29N/NUB in 1995 to take on the air superiority role, then the delivery of the F/A-18D Hornet in 1997 to provide the all weather interdictor capability and finally the eighteen Su-30MKMs for delivery in 2007 to fulfill a requirement for an initial order batch of multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA).


In 1996, Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) planned to acquire a total of 27 New Generation Patrol Vessels (NGPV) to full fill its future requirement. The Germany Blohm + Voss MEKO 100 based design was selected and a contract of 6 NGPVs was signed in 2003.

The Malaysian Minister of Defence also announced that Malaysia would be buying 2 frigates from the United Kingdom. On 20 July 2006 the Clyde shipyard has won a contract to help build two of second batch of Lekiu class frigate for Malaysia. The two frigates will be completed at Labuan Shipyard and Engineering in Malaysia as a condition of the deal and the new frigates are said to be benefit from the latest U.K.Type 45 (T45) destroyer technology transfer. In 2006 The Ministry of Defence was signed for the two scorpene class submarine from the DCNS, and its Spanish partner, Navantia for the built of these two most modern submarine, the resources said these two submarine will be armed with Blackshark wire-guided torpedoes and Exocet SM-39 sub-launched anti-ship missiles and belived that this is the only submarine in this region that can launch the missile to the surface.

The Malaysian army not being neglecting from receiving the new deadly weapon,delivery of 48 PT-91M main battle tanks from Poland may enhance the capability of the army besides adding some 28 units of modern South African G5 Mk III 155 mm howitzers and 36 units of Astros MRLS from Brazil which delivery was completed in 2007 will at least give the uncomfortable feelings to the nearby neighbours.

As the conclusion, all these entire deadly weapon will make our enemy think twice to do the invasion on our beloved country. We are not going to provoke anybody but the readiness of the armed forces perhaps can creating the "scaring factor" to our enemy.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org