Army Spends 2.2 Billion Baht For More Chinese APCs, Ammo

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

A screencap of a promotional footage of VN-1 armored personnel vehicles. Image: Norinco

 

BANGKOK — The Royal Thai Army’s buying spree shows no signs of letting up with the disclosure Friday it has committed to spending another 2.2 billion baht on more military hardware from China.

 

According to it purchase orders published on the army’s ordnance department, the force will acquire three armored personnel carriers, 12 mobile artillery units, 10 maintenance vehicles, 12 armored command vehicles and three armored medical vehicles.

 

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I bet they'll try to empty they coffers in 2 months for the new government.

Quickly raking in some backhanders before the election. Maybe they feel themselves that they are not going to retain power and want to make a few fast bucks before its over.

 

I hope that these deals will be checked (not that I expect much after the watch fiasco)

Getting ready for the next Military coup

Never mind the quality,feel the width......

regards worgeordie

Deal with the devil could leave Thailand open to blackmail / pressure in future.

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

Army Spends 2.2 Billion Baht For More Chinese APCs, Ammo

Where are their imagined threats coming from? External threats from their neighbours, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia? Or internal threats from within stemming from civil disobedience? Or both?

Yeah, they need all this new stuff cause you never know when those sneaky Rohingya are going to stage a massive attack.

"Oust me if you dare, jerks!"

Pollution can wait !!!

Projection may be for 12-18 months in order to lessen the JERKS in Bangkok.

Eastern economic corridor is doing business just so happens

its all one way at the moment,

 well it is the year of the pig after all!

2.2 b .! This one looks like its made from Lego .. I'm sure they could've got 'em cheaper if they went to Legoland ..

Ladies and Gentlemen, please place your last bets before the place closes!

Well, look on the bright side. At least they are not wasting money. (sarcasm)

Hmmm. Almost as if they think another coup might be in the offing...  One's got to work out well sooner or later. Not *all* Thai army generals are Dad's Army types - surely?

Edited February 1, 20197 yr by HalfLight

Just add a few more billion baht to the already out of control debt to the Chinese govt... sold your soul to the devil!!

meanwhile  rural  roads  by  me  crumble and  there  isnt  any  money  to fix  a  cheap  plastic  waterpipe  for  the  main  village  supply...............they are  such pratts

1 hour ago, kannot said:

meanwhile  rural  roads  by  me  crumble and  there  isnt  any  money  to fix  a  cheap  plastic  waterpipe  for  the  main  village  supply...............they are  such pratts

 Im right behind you with that

3 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Where are their imagined threats coming from? External threats from their neighbours, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia? Or internal threats from within stemming from civil disobedience? Or both?

Falang.

 

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"the force will acquire three armored personnel carriers, 12 mobile artillery units, 10 maintenance vehicles, 12 armored command vehicles and three armored medical vehicles."

 

looks like someone has worked out that towed artillery, jeeps as command vehicles (CVs) and soft skinned ambulances don't work too well with fast armoured vehicles.

 

Can't imagine why they're buying the maintenance vehicles!

 

Looking at this purchase, the new tanks and the wheeled APCs bought a few years ago, looks like a small but punchy modern battlegroup is being put together. I wonder who will get them/where they will be based?

 

I bet they won't go to the poor sods riding around the southern provinces in pick up trucks

32 minutes ago, JAG said:

"the force will acquire three armored personnel carriers, 12 mobile artillery units, 10 maintenance vehicles, 12 armored command vehicles and three armored medical vehicles."

 

looks like someone has worked out that towed artillery, jeeps as command vehicles (CVs) and soft skinned ambulances don't work too well with fast armoured vehicles.

 

Can't imagine why they're buying the maintenance vehicles!

 

Looking at this purchase, the new tanks and the wheeled APCs bought a few years ago, looks like a small but punchy modern battlegroup is being put together. I wonder who will get them/where they will be based?

 

I bet they won't go to the poor sods riding around the southern provinces in pick up trucks

Well, all that ought to make ASEAN members be in awe of Thailand - and no mistake.

 

Where did Prem find these people? Were they *all* down the local street market? Cooking crickets or flies or something?

 

What about Ringo, where did he pop up from? The PatPong super fake watch emporium?

 

 

 

1 hour ago, JAG said:

Looking at this purchase, the new tanks and the wheeled APCs bought a few years ago, looks like a small but punchy modern battlegroup is being put together. I wonder who will get them/where they will be based?

 

Perhaps they're for the big house, now that the BKK 'defenders' have been shifted out a bit (allegedly to make coups by them harder to launch).

 

Summat's up at' mill, and it's not bratwurst..

Edited February 1, 20197 yr by HalfLight

1 hour ago, HalfLight said:

 

Perhaps they're for the big house, now that the BKK 'defenders' have been shifted out a bit (allegedly to make coups by them harder to launch).

 

Summat's up at' mill, and it's not bratwurst..

There is quite a lot of space that has become available in that part of Bangkok recently.

According to "Janes" these vehicles/war machines are very high tech.

 But... You need some one to operate them in a conflict. Thailand fails in any conflict.

And who can blame them. ... 

2 hours ago, Prissana Pescud said:

According to "Janes" these vehicles/war machines are very high tech.

 But... You need some one to operate them in a conflict. Thailand fails in any conflict.

And who can blame them. ... 

You also need a conflict, which Thailand doesn't have now, hasn't had for the past 30 odd years and is unlikely to have any time soon. 

 

The main purpose of these purchases is the commission they generate for the generals.

And the commissions just keep rolling in.....!

It is just the Chinese way of stationing their weapons farther down the road for the army in the future......

17 hours ago, webfact said:

2.2 Billion Baht For More Chinese APCs, Ammo

An attempt to lure more Chinese tourists?  Preparing for a civil war?  A post-election uprising?

Don't need any of this cheap hardware just sell boat trips to your enemy's and they wont come back????