By Debra Chong
January 21, 2012
Pua (centre) pronounced a specifications for a 6 unit vessels did not match those in use by a US.File pic
The DAP lawmaker pronounced he could right away endorse that a supervision was not appropriation "littoral fight ships (LCS)" as claimed, though another class of naval vehicles called "Gowind Class Corvettes".
Pua, along with Pakatan Rakyat (PR) allies Saifuddin Nasution Ismail as well as Dzulkefly Ahmad, had met up with top officials from a Ministry of Defence (Mindef) earlier this week to clarify a multi-billion purchase.
"We would right away similar to to call upon Mindef to 'call a spade a spade' as well as stop a try to costume a merger with whim names to clear their substantial cost," he pronounced in a statement today.
"The Gowind-class corvettes have been not ships to be belittled as well as have been absolute in their own ways that might offer a needs of Malaysian navy, though they have been not by means a homogeneous of LCS as trumpeted by a apportion as well as a government," he added.
The DAP publicity chief has been ring with Defence Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi in as well as out of Parliament over a travel in costs for a 6 vessels after this was revealed to have ballooned from an initial RM6 billion to a whopping RM9 billion.
He forked out that a LCS is a specific type of boat built to a specific length, speed as well as design by a US navy as well as no other country. He added that a US' currently had usually two such vessels in service as well as was building others.
Th! e Petali ng Jaya Utara MP remarkable Mindef officials pronounced a top speed for Malaysia's unit ships could usually reach twenty-eight knots, that was lower than a 40 to 45 knots of a customary LCS.
The 6 ships were additionally to be shorter, measuring 105m long, as well as would not have a long-range transit reach of 3,500 miles (5,600km).
Mindef officials additionally pronounced any boat can carry usually a single Eurocopter 725 onboard as well as would not have a capacity to launch as well as recover small boats.
Pua pronounced Mindef officials had additionally reliable during a assembly that Malaysia's counterclaim unit ships, engaged to Boustead Naval Shipyards, would be built by what he referred to as "scandal-tainted French shipbuilder DCNS".
"It will positively be a widen of any military expert's imagination to proportion a squeeze of these SPGV Corvettes to a state-of-the-art LCS," Pua said.
Pua had previously urged Zahid to explain how a cost tab for a LCS jumped to RM9 billion from RM6 billion, as well as why a Turkish-made APCs were purchased from Deftech Sdn Bhd for RM29.4 million any when they had been bought for usually RM6.7 million apiece.
He has alleged that a cost of a separate purchases was greatly inflated, as well as urged a apportion to be some-more pure about a deals, that were conducted without open tender.
Pua had wanted Putrajaya to set up a parliamentary slip cabinet upon counterclaim buying modelled after a US House Oversight Subcommittee upon National Security, Homeland Defense as well as Foreign Operations as well as a US Defense Budget Appropriation Committees to examination future counterclaim deals.
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