Royal Thai Navy to switch from a Chinese submarine to a frigate : Defence Minister

[kiwikeith]

On 10/21/2023 at 1:29 PM, bamnutsak said:

So now it becomes clear that a submarine is not essential to the mission. And the MoD/RTN says surface ships can fulfill the mission.

 

from the linked article...

 

Sutin said that the RTN and the Defence Ministry have agreed that the submarine procurement must be reviewed, based on the worthiness of the project vis-à-vis its price tag.

 

This one will go down - not literally - in history as the biggest folly for the Thai military-idiocy complex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They could be cheap to run, plenty of gunga around to fuel the boilers, and the crew would always be happy on deck 

[paul1804]

A Frigate makes a lot more sense and given that they recently lost a vessel due to poor maintenance and incompetency hopefully they can maintain a new Frigate and operate it with a higher level of competency than a submarine!

[scottiejohn]

16 minutes ago, paul1804 said:

given that they recently lost a vessel due to poor maintenance and incompetency

Has there been a board of enquiry published that substantiates those remarks or is it just the usual uninformed Thai bashing drivel?

[paul1804]

16 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Has there been a board of enquiry published that substantiates those remarks or is it just the usual uninformed Thai bashing drivel?

What would a board of enquiry establish, the vessel was already badly listing when it got hit by big seas. So why was the vessel even out there given it had an obvious problem. Poor maintenance initiated the problem and incompetency sealed its fate!

[scottiejohn]

31 minutes ago, paul1804 said:

Poor maintenance initiated the problem and incompetency sealed its fate!

Says who with the inside knowledge to say so as a matter of fact and not just conjecture on your part.

[jacko45k]

On 10/23/2023 at 8:39 PM, scottiejohn said:

Has there been a board of enquiry published that substantiates those remarks or is it just the usual uninformed Thai bashing drivel?

Would you feel the board of enquiry would produce a reliable analysis of the performance of the crew, a crew that managed to sink their own ship 20 miles from the coast? There were claims of insufficient life jackets too. We will never know.