South East Asia Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

[SteelBird]

Another photo of the Vietnamese Navy's Gepard class frigate HQ-011 Dinh Tien Hoang.

This is said to be on the Vietnamese Gepard. It looks like a stood-up transformer to me.

 

[Jura The idiot]

I'm a little bit late here but ... the Royal Brunei Navy participants to RIMPAC2014 are back:

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[Jura The idiot]

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This is said to be on the Vietnamese Gepard. It looks like a stood-up transformer to me.
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I did some searching:

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seems to be relevant; anyway, great summary by navyreco at

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and I have links to articles in Russian describing «Кортик» (tell me if interested)

 

[Jura The idiot]

also mentions the Thai frigate to be obtained from S. Korea:

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[FORBIN]

Leopard 2 and Marder arriving in Indonesia, second batch 24 and 28.

One other country in this region that acquires recently MBT. Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.

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[ManilaBoy45]

Members of the coalition fleet (from right) Philippine Navy Ship, BRP Ramon Alcaraz, Pakistan Navy Ship, PNS Nasr and HMAS Newcastle come together in the North Australian Exercise Area (NAXA) off the coast of Darwin, Northern territory during Exercise KAKADU 2014.

 

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I also wonder

 

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will somebody please comment on this (could be in a Private Message), thanks

 

[PanAsian]

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will somebody please comment on this (could be in a Private Message), thanks

Looks like a 052C shaped 054 front end with a 053 back end... and as imbalanced as it sounds.

 

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will somebody please comment on this (could be in a Private Message), thanks

First, very diificult have accurate infos for the Myanmar same problem as China...

Kyan Sittha class frigate

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Aung Zeya successor identical armament, a little heavier 3000t against 2500 but stealth ship.

Burmanese Navy increased its capacity before some years ( 3 FF, 8 Missile boats ) like many countries in Asia but remains a secondary Navy, 3rd class for " Brown water missions " mainly and don't get submarines.