{"id":194461,"date":"2008-09-21T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/21\/malaysia-looking-at-airborne-radar-purchase\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T11:01:00","slug":"malaysia-looking-at-airborne-radar-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/21\/malaysia-looking-at-airborne-radar-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Looking at Airborne Radar Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you consider their airforce, a mix of MiG-29s, Su-30 MKMs, and F-18s, it seems inevitable that they would start to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseindustrydaily.com\/Malaysia-Interested-in-AWACS-Aircraft-05076\/\">consider some sort of airborne command and control capability<\/a>, particularly given Thailand&#8217;s purchase of Saab\u2019s Erieye, Australia&#8217;s oft delayed Wedgetail, and Singapore&#8217;s E-2Cs and future deliveries of Phalcons.<\/p>\n<p>I think that over the next few years, we will see a lot posturing, both on the part of the Malaysians and on the part of the companies who want to make a sale to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you consider their airforce, a mix of MiG-29s, Su-30 MKMs, and F-18s, it seems inevitable that they would start to consider some sort of airborne command and control capability, particularly given Thailand&#8217;s purchase of Saab\u2019s Erieye, Australia&#8217;s oft delayed Wedgetail, and Singapore&#8217;s E-2Cs and future deliveries of Phalcons. I think that over the next &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}