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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Submarines not worth the money

Type-206AThe Thai military has a history of bad decisions and wasteful spending in making arms acquisitions which have cost the taxpayers huge amounts of money. The Royal Thai Navy's plan to buy old submarines from Germany could well be just another wrong decision.

The Royal Thai Navy’s long-standing dream of having a submarine fleet appears about to be fulfilled now that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has approved, in principle, its proposal to purchase six 30-plus-year old German submarines at a cost of 7.7 billion baht.

Besides the security and skills training reasons cited to justify the acquisition of the submarines, an informed source said, a major argument behind the move is that the Thai navy will be left way behind the times without submarines.

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