SHAH ALAM: Refit for KD Terengganu. KD Terengganu, the fourth ship in the Kedah class is expected to undergo a refit at the Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) in Lumut, later this year. Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation on June 20 announced to Bursa Saham that BNS, its associate company had accepted a letter of award from the Defence Ministry for the refit of the ship with a contract value RM96 million.
A jack stay demonstration from KD Terengganu and KD Pahang at the KK Naval Base on May 28, during the 85th anniversary open day. KD Terengganu.
The announcement.
The Company wishes to announce that on 20 June 2019, its associate company Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS), had accepted a letter dated 14 June 2019 from the Ministry of Defence Malaysia representing the Government of Malaysia, awarding BNS a contract for the Refit works on KD TERENGGANU (the Contract) at a contract value of RM95,990,015.07. A formal contract between the Government of Malaysia and BNS will be signed at a later date.
It is unclear when Terengganu will undergo the refit as mentioned above the contract has yet to be signed. Terengganu currently based at Kuantan naval base will be involved in an exercise with her sister ship, KD Kelantan and other vessels in Ex KerisMas this week.
The last Kedah-class to undergo a refit was KD Perak, at the Shin Yang shipyard in Miri. I was informed that there are some concerns regarding the work done on Perak, however, as there is nothing official about it, I will not say anything further about it.
Anyhow it is likely the Terengganu will be installed with the Gem Eletronicca EOFCS as previously reported. As I mentioned before RMN wanted to do an extensive upgrades for the Kedah-class but as money is tight, scheduled refits like this are the only ones they can afford.
It must be noted that Boustead has not announced a new MD for BHIC. Meanwhile, the Edge has a report on the company today regarding the LCS. It is mostly about monetary claims it had been seeking from the government which the report said had been approved.
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CEO BHIC now is Ee Teck Chee. Good man. Have known him for more than 20 years oredi.
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Oops it should be MD
Refits are a normal activity for ships to reapply the hull antifouling, general repairs and such. Other kedah class ships has been refitted before without fanfare by boustead and other shipyards, some in east malaysia.
Funny that there are other defence blogs commenting on this refit and extrapolating the facts like it is a big news.
From the edge report:
" The Edge understands that the variation order for KD Maharaja Lela includes a change in the missile system and its decoy launching system "
Interesting statement!
So it should be about the MICA replacement with something we have not heard yet. Would it be the CAMM? Or even ESSM?
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No lah it was the change to MICA and Lacroix decoys
@ marhalim
This is a new variation order done in fourth quarter of 2018. We have decided on MICA way before that, so only change if decided in fourth quarter of 2018 is surely to replace the MICA, and the reason why no LOA for the MICA yet.
From The Edge article:
It is worth noting that BHIC was profitable for the first three quarters of FY2018 before it suffered heavy losses in the fourth quarter, which dragged its entire year into the red. The group attributed the losses primarily to impairments and provisions.
“The group’s results were impacted by a negative contribution of RM53 million posted by associates in the defence and security division,” BHIC’s 2018 annual report said.
“The loss was mainly attributed to the revision in costs of the LCS programme arising from variation orders and higher project finance cost,” it added.
The Edge understands that the variation order for KD Maharaja Lela includes a change in the missile system and its decoy launching system.
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I have been told about the VO since 2016, its nothing new. And I have quoted the MD and RMN chief as saying that they have contracted for the MICA launchers, just late last year and at this LIMA I reported that they had stopped negotiations with MBDA due to the palm oil issue. Of course if you want to believe that this is about ESSM it's up to you. The VO was about changing from Exocet to NSM, ESSM to MICA and the decoys from a British one to Lacroix.
All ships routinely undergo refits but unfortunately can be delayed either due to funding or due to a ship’s operational commitments.
Involves everything from hull preventive maintenance, to replacing time expired parts, to servicing the gearbox, to checking the circuitry, etc.
@ marhalim
Noted. I stand corrected.
Not to mention the guns needs overhaul too
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They don't fire them too much even the M4s and GPMG for an overhaul. Though they need some TLC for being at sea
The Kedahs are unusual in that they have HMGs and GPMGs. Most ships only have GPMGs. The Inderapura had HMGs but those came with the ship.
Firing practice at sea takes place time to time at the discretion of the CO. There is always ammo kept aside for practice and ammo which is never touched.
Sorry very very off topic
An interesting development of the KIFV from the South Koreans.
They have managed to develop a 120mm automatic reloading mortar to be lightweight enough to be fitted on a normal 5 road wheel KIFV! That is a superb engineering solution that no one so far can manage to do.
http://www.media.defenseromania.ro/image/201906/w670/mortier_autopropulsat_m113_53386400.jpg
From the picture above you can see it still have 5 roadwheels of a normal KIFV/M113
Compare to the picture of the of our own Adnan 120mm. This had to be lengthened and modified by adding another one roadwheel, for a total of 6 roadwheels to accommodate the weight of the TDM 120mm mortar.
https://www.malaysiandefence.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_4942-1024x761.jpg
... I remember the US bought a 82mm Vasilek “automatic” mortar and conducted trials with it mounted on the back of a HMMWV.
Not as powerful per round so and I don’t know if the engineering was ever completely solved, but still a lot of highly mobile firepower.
As for Korea, the plan is for mechanised units to get that mortar mounted on a KIFV, infantry units will have a 105mm howitzer mounted on a 6x6 5-ton truck.