Interview with Chief of Royal Malaysian Navy on "15 to 5" Transformation Programme
Wednesday, 06 July 2016



Because of fiscal challenges and the geopolitics situation in the South East Asia region, Admiral Kamarulzaman is rolling out a new transformation and modernization plan called "15 to 5".There are currently 15 classes of ships in the RMN, coming from 7 nations with an average age of 30 years. This represents a large costs in terms of maintenance and operations. As a solution the "15 to 5" plan calls for:

1. Phasing out of the older vessels in the fleet. This would lead to optimized resources.
   
2. Improving procurement processes (reduced and optimized procurement requirements, reduced ill practices) would lead to additional savings for the RMN.
   
3. Use these savings to fund the "15 to 5" plan, while focusing on local shipyards and defence industry.
   

The five classes that would form the Royal Malaysian Navy would be:

• New Generation Patrol Vessel (Kedah-class)
  
• Littoral Combat Ship (Gowind-class)
  
• Littoral Mission Ship (able to do 80% of the LCS class missions at 20% of the cost)
  
• Multirole Supply Ship
  
• Submarines (Scorpene-class)
  

The RMN fleet would remain at 55 vessels meaning some additional procurement even among existing classes (such as the Scorpene-class submarines, two of which are already deployed by Malaysia).

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Royal Malaysian Navy to revamp armada, chief admiral says
March 11, 2016



KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) will revamp its armada to only five classes of ships so that it is more cost-effective to maintain and manage.

RMN chief Admiral Datuk Seri Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin said the five classes of ships were the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS); New Generation Patrol Vessels (NGPV); Littoral Mission Ships (LMS); Multi-Support Ships (MRSS) and submarines.

He said at present, RMN had 15 classes of ships which were built in seven different countries — United Kingdom; Germany; Italy; France; Sweden; South Korea and Malaysia.

“The ships we have are old, so they are hard to maintain and require a big allocation.

“So we see the opportunity for us to reduce the number of classes of ships to five but we will increase the number of ships in these classes,” he told reporters after a pinning-of-the-rank ceremony for RMN officers and the Royal Malaysian Navy Reserves (PSSRMN) here today.

Ahmad Kamarulzaman said on average, the age of RMN’s existing assets was about 32 years.

He added the 15-to-5 RMN Armada Transformation Programme would also focus on building ships locally to reduce the nation’s dependency on foreign expertise.

He said the initiative to transform asset management would contribute to RMN’s corporate social responsibility to the community. — Bernama

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