Bilal9
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The Kilo you got from India is one of the last few they got rid of. There is a reason that IN got rid of them, is that they kept blowing up, blame faulty Russian engg. or Indian Navy inability to understand maintenance of these subs.I am very puzzled as to why you think the type-035 is better than the Kilo. Beside the Mings were also built in the 80s not only that the Chinese were nowhere near good at building submarines as the Russian. The design alone is enough to see that. The Mings has a WW2 era design. I am not saying this because I'm Burmese it simply can not be compared to a Kilo even if the kilo is a Project 877. The kilo is simply just better. If the Ming is so good then why did the Chinese buy the kilo to replace the Mings?
Our Navy paid China heavily to refurbish these Mings, almost all powertrain and sensor eqpmt. (digital sensors) has been extensively changed to almost new standards concurrent with other later make Chinese subs. Of late they have altered the torpedo tubes to launch longer range heavyweight torpedos (30 km range) as well.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/bangladesh-navy.168818/page-323#post-11633017
So arguing that a Kilo is better than a Ming - well....
I suggest you read up on these subjects, you need to know more.
But yeah - at the end of the day the Mings are really not offensive subs, they are for training. but they can serve well in a pinch.
About 3% of the GDP go to the military.
https://tradingeconomics.com/myanmar/military-expenditure-percent-of-gdp-wb-data.html
I doubt this 'official' figure is even close to being correct. If you aren't a Tatmadaw functionary, how would you know? And even if you are, you think the Generals would swear to be transparent about this?
Trading economics isn't even close to being a COMPLETE source for the statistics. Tatmadaw gets much more funding from undisclosed funding sources such as Myanmarese private and Tatmadaw owned companies which fund the military.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/MyanmarFFM/Pages/EconomicInterestsMyanmarMilitary.aspx
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