a layman defense note - Gagah Samudera

entri kapal perang....

tis name the training warship....

Another milestone for shipbuilding industries and also for the Royal Malaysian Navy, Gagah Samudera was launched from the slipway of NGV Tech shipyard in Sijangkang proving that Malaysian can a achieve a feat.

The Gagah Samudera is a training ship built in Malaysia and designed by a Korean shipyard Daewoo.

The hull and superstructure were shipped from Korea before being assemble by NGV Tech in its facilities. By looking at the design, it is not much to say that the vessel had similar lines to the current Kedah class patrol vessel and RMN main surface combatant, the Jebat class frigate.

Owing to similar lines and hull design, shows that this training ship is purpose built to meet RMN requirements for a dedicated for training on surface navigation and principle on warfare for officers and other ranks personnel before being transferred to actual warships in the Armada.

The helideck located athwart-ship are able to accomodate the Fennec or Super Lynx helicopter operated by the Naval Airwing, and giving this vessel traits as a training ship, might also serve as a training platform for principle helicopter operations and landing technique.

Now...

what are the significance of this training ship....

looking at the ship closely...like i mentioned before, it does have lines and designs similar to our PV`s and frigates....suggesting that, if this ship does make it into service, it could possibly lead to something much more interesting within the next few year.

what kind of interesting stuff....

a corvette type warship to fill in the gap when the FAC`s going for retirement or additional PV type warships to full fill patrol duties in our EEZ might be a good guess, all built from the basic design taken from the Korean to build this training ship...

well let us pray that this ship, and the second training ship will be accepted and flying the RMN royal colours....

-Malaysiana Rule the Waves-