the two hunter killers called the prime ministers...photo taken from here
i am one proud Malaysian knowing that the naval forces had move one step further in modernising their fleet and capabilities by aquiring a number of surface and sub-surface assets..modernising its air wings and older surface assets and much2 more to protect our waters and its resources...
although there are unpleasant news coming from people with political interest more than national interest saying that some of the procurement were filled with corruptions and so on...
to hell with politics...
here is a post comemmorating our seafarers..i stand corrected..submariners who went to the deep and stayed there to defend the nation...
few years back...RMN had sent its personnel to France for submarine training....which will be the Gold and Blue crew of the nation first submarine squadron...operating from newly established naval base in East Malaysia...
in 2009...the first sub...the KD Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived in Port Klang with her crew sailing from France..and had marked Malaysia as the 3rd nation in the South East Asia with subsurface warfare capabilities...
TUNKU...first premier...first hunter killer...
i am quite dissapointed when i was told that both boat were named after a politician..an ex-premier to be exact...whilst there are much more suitable name for both...but who cares what i think..
anyway...
The Scorpene has been jointly developed by French DCNS, Armaris and Spanish shipbuilder Navantia (formerly Bazan, then Izar) of Spain. The armaments package includes Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei-built Black Shark heavyweight wire-guided torpedoes and up to 16 MBDA-built SM-39 Exocet submarine-launched anti-ship cruise missiles.
Life onboard a subs is world aparts from life on a surface craft....where everything is cramped and space is limited and had dual purpose...i heard stories where submariners had their bunks placed right above and below torpedo within torpedo bay...
TUN RAZAK...the second premier and thus the second hunter killer...
living quarters placed close to the missile silo...and everything for the officers and crews..living quarters...mess...navigation deck..CIC...etc...were placed way forward while the turbines,generators and reactor were placed way aft..in case of a nuclear submarine where radiation leaks is a nightmare...
plus...living in a such small space...under 300-400 feet of crushing pressure of seawater is very intimidating...knowing that if something bad happens...the only way you go is only down...and crushed into oblivion...
on the conning tower...the skipper and his officers...
but then...none of us...layman had thought of this....only thinking that procurement of this subs are rubbish and so on...while not taking into consideration how 39 lives...who manned and operates these magnificent machine in the crushing depth of cold and dark ocean...sacrifices themselves for us to sleep well during the night....
Albeit some Malaysian with political affiliations had labeled this subs a scandals involving high ranking personnel in the government...which also involved in millions of ringgits worth of taxpayer money used to feed someone pockets for their own interest...
i neither believe in those who ran the country right now coz i know some of them cant be trusted....and oppositions who said they are the champion of the people struggling to go against corrupted leaders but also dua kali lima...coz both are politicians and they had their own interest...money and power
in my interest...national defence should not be use as a tool for political purposes...it a common interest of all Malaysian...regardless of polititcal interest of views...
i had gone astray...
salutation to the naval forces who..without remorse...and without fear...carry on to protect the nation and its interest...
SILENT AND DEADLY...
-come to sea and see for yourself-
