Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Machinery Of War Discussion Thread

our 60 tons leopards can do stuff like this so i dont think itll be that big of a problem really

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J-7D
Mig-21 Bison
F-20

those arent cas planes

Yeah, but isn’t we discuss about the Hawk only? I think those plane that you mentions is just arrived the end shelf life.

Call me crazy
The Hawk didnt sell well enough and they are gonna change it for a SU-30mk2 or a SU-27smk 👀

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It might be, since the devs are so greedy we really won’t surprise if they decided to introduced another similar packages

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With the mk2 and the mkk as premiums for Russia and China, I can see them adding the mk2 as a premium for Indonesia/Japan, easy copy and paste, i wouldn’t really mind since I already have the MKM, but the one I really want to see is the SU-27smk in the TT

wont happen any time soon since japan already has the F-2A ADTW as a rank 8 premium

I mean, there are some nations that have 2 rank 8 premiums, also you know the most important thing when it comes to premiun additions 💸

for not too much longer, as they are going to remove the F-20 and Mig-21 Bison

exactly
and most ppl that want to grind japan probably aready bought the F-2
ao releasing another rank 8 premium in the near future wouldnt make too much money

Well yes, they are getting removed now, but they were added march and june 2024, the f-18s were on march 2025, so they came roughly 1 year before the f18s and stayed 1 year after the f-18s
The F2 was added in june 2025, so it could get a replacement this year and stay until june 2027

The King of Malaysia inspected the Su-57 T-50-9 prototype two days ago at Zhukovsky Airport in Moscow. This is an interesting development from the previous rumours of Su-57 procurement by Malaysia.

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A delegation led by the Royal Thai Air Force Commander traveled to Sweden to visit Saab’s aircraft production facilities, where Thailand’s first Gripen E has already entered the production line.



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https://x.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/2054515914255839684
https://x.com/wuthi11_/status/2054809405242417513?s=20

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Japan seems to be only exporting ships at this second as that is her prized industry and the one that needs these orders more then ever. China and Korea have gobbled up most of the civil contacts for years.

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All computer so much computer.

Glass cockpits are cool looking but IRL they have less accidents contributed to them but if something goes wrong it goes wrong. Also is the touchscreen still an issue for fighter planes or is that only in the civil sector? Or left to the pilot where you have two options to get it to do what you want.

There is also voice activated controls being dumped out everywhere.

I heard news Malaysia is interested in KF-21 or SU-57E the most

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I don’t know anything about ASEAN weaponry but is there a picture of the Indonesian MiG-19 equipped with that rocket pod that is implied it can use in the image below?(I’m not sure if it is a B-8M1)

I’m not so much of a top tier person so a MiG-19S with 40 rockets sounds very interesting

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Suggestion mods working overttime right now lol my suggestion got accepted so quickly:


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It’s UB-16-57 rocket pod, containing 16 S-5 unguided rockets in each pod. AFAIK I haven’t seen a photo of Indonesian MiG-19 with it, although to be fair there’s not many photos of MiG-19s in service, as the Indonesians disliked them (to say the least)

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Also forgot to post here but the recent Balikatan 2026 made history as Japan’s most largescale participation in any of the Southeast Asian hosted military exercises. Photo dump inbound!

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