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i'll pick scorpene sbr any day. that sucker can shoot exocet and mdcn

maybe he forgot to type another zero 🤣

FREMM = ASW AH140 = AAW MOGAMI = GP couldn't be more grateful

F-16 = stagnation. let's avoid that one at all cost.

more than 60% of MBDA shares is not owned by french or french related company, so i'll take alman's word with grain of salt when he said french will block the sales of aster system to non french made ship. i'm quite suspicious with alman's motive on this, he might get paid by the french's...

lol this is hilarious from alman's part for thrashing FMP knowing the fact that this spec is already hinted by FMP since 30 July!!

that might be the case but it is apparent that the type-45 suffered from engine issue (fatal design flaw) which are unfound on its sister (orizonte) as they use different engine.

i remember him saying that we wouldn't be getting the 30ffm and told us not to live in a fantasy, flash forward that tweet no longer exist lol

definitely air defense system. they offered us HQ-9

too good to be true, also PAL and Thales are the contractor for this project so no way they would put up another radar beside thales.

i can only think SM-2/SM-3, other than that, i don't think there are better product than aster-30.

ah i see.

still, there are far better option as i have mentioned before than choosing neptune for our coastal defense. however, i'm speculating that maybe we are offered significant ToT package as ukraine are known for this practice (as long as the money is good).

i really don't understand the reasoning behind this procurement. i mean there are far better option based on whether by commonality (coastal exocet block 3) or performance (supersonic brahmos missile/stealth nsm missile).

don't worry, according to fincantieri representative on an interview with navalnews, indonesian fremm is the ASW one.