News Forum - Government under fire on military spending plans

[Thaiger]

The government yesterday was criticized over the Defence Ministry’s weapons procurement plans. Shots were fired by deputy Pheu Thai Party leader Yuttapong Charasathien who says a number of procurement projects lack transparency and spending is too high. Yuttapong criticized the navy’s request of almost 41 million baht for a number of weapons systems, but in particular its decision to buy a Chinese-made S26T submarine without an engine. The Royal Thai Navy defended buying the submarine without an engine saying it needed specific engine design specifications. The navy added China will have to honour the contract between the two nations and […]

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[Pinetree]

The F35s are just one more fast jet, no better or worse than a 30 year old F16, if the ground control and data interface/ infrastructure is not in place.  They would be electronically and data blind and next to useless without it and the Thais can't afford that level of sophistication and don't need it anyway. Its nothing more than a very expensive vanity project. 

[gion]

 

believe the word says it all.

whoever believes that the military orders things that are really necessary to defend our country also believes in Santa Claus.

transparency open discussions are undesirable, you order what you want whether you need it or not.

Billions are wasted on unquestioned desires.