SHAH ALAM: Keris delivered. The RMN took physical delivery of the first of class Littoral Mission Ship (LMS), Keris, today. This must be the fastest ship delivered to the navy with commissioning expecting early next year. Keris was launched in April, this year, some two years after the contract was signed in 2017.
The handover ceremony took place at the Wuchuan shipyard facility at Qidong port, near Shanghai, China. The ship was received by the Defence Ministry Procurement Division secretary Datuk Ahmad Husaini Abdul Rahman.
RMN in its release said the commissioning ceremony for Keris will be conducted at the same facility at the Qidong port on Jan. 6. The ship is expected to sail back following the ceremony and a homecoming ceremony is scheduled at the Kota Kinabalu naval base in Sabah on Jan. 17.
The second class LMS, Sundang will be delivered to the RMN on April, next year with the two other LMS also built in China will be delivered by mid-2021, RMN says.
— Malaysian Defence
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Thank you. At least a good news before new year.
Congrats TLDM. Any new ship is better than no new ships at all.
Off topic
Why arent we sending our men and water bombers to help out fighting the wildfires in Australia?
Ps. I cannot pass captcha for a week now...
A good news in deed.But i always regard Keris as a ordinary patrol ship but not as LMS.My opinion is a hull like Gagah Samudera is a proper platform for LMS.
Heard some wild rumour that no more lms will be ordered by mindef..hope this rumour is not true
Hi, I've been doing some reading on the Chinese PLAN naval launches, and it seems that the Chinese has been churning out DDGs like hot cakes this year. Altogether, the PLAN has launched 9 DDGs this year:
23 Feb, 052D#17 Jiangnan shipyard
16 Apr, 052D#18 Jiangnan shipyard
10 May, 052D#19 & 052D#20 Dalian shipyard
28 Aug, 052D#21 Jiangnan shipyard
12 Sept, 055#5 Jiangnan shipyard
26 Sept, 052D#22 Jiangnan shiyard
26 Dec, 052D#23 & 055#6 Dalian shipyard
That's 7 052D's & 2 055's launched this year alone. No wonder they could delivered the Keris in so short a time.
JunTau,
Indeed and it will be used intensively as a patrol asset given the shortage of hulls and the fact that the FACs not only can’t put to sea in certain sea states but have become very maintenance intensive due to age.
As an LMS the design is secondary as a LMS will only need so much range, endurance and deck space; more important is the fit out.
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I believe the MMEA’s Bombardier’s aren’t operational and unless there’s a specific call for help from Australia I really doubt the bureaucrats would want to pay the costs associated with such a deployment. Sure helping Australia would be nice given that they’ve helped us in various ways but Indonesia it’s different, we offered fire fighters because the haze directly caused us issues.
Happy New Year everyone.
Thank you to the admin for all these news and providing a forum for us citizens to openly discuss defense matters.
Thank you to the readers for always discussing and producing opinions. Its been very educational.
We may have different opinions and thoughts but we always think of our nation which is a good thing.
Lets pray for our nation and its people to be safe and prosper.
Btw if we want to use the keris as lms, maybe uprated its equipment akin to usn cyclone patrol ship is a nice idea.
Just my sekupang.
The NST wrong defence facts strikes again!
http://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/12/552355/first-4-lms-delivered-rmn
Still with old facts that the next 2 LMS will be build in malaysia.
Off topic. Philippine Navy SSV (LPD) Project.
"For the Landing Docks Acquisition Project which conducted the Bid Submission and Opening last 26 November 2019, the lowest bidder was local shipbuilder Megaship Builders Inc., which is joint-ventured to a Malaysian shipbuilder, Sing Kiong Hong Dockyards Sdn Bhd."
https://www.phdefenseresource.com/2019/11/landing-docks-acquisition-project-of.html?m=1
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If you read until the end it was stated there that the lowest bidder was disqualified. PT Pal which offered the second lowest bid was in turn qualified for the bid. I suspect that the lowest bid was disqualified as the ship offered is only a paper ship with no examples in service. Most of the Philippines tender documents will state that the weapon systems, ships planes etc must be already in service with at least one country. Anyhow, Sing Kiong is a Sibu based shipyard. Probably one of the shipyards which the Sibu MP during the DWP debate said was capable of building the LMS. Mat Sabu in his reply said of course if the shipyards were capable they could be considered for the project though he said the funding for future LMS had not been approved.
Thank you for the new year gift chinese comrade, lmfao..