Let’s Float

How much we spent to get Malaysian’s very first national owned sub-marine?

And now we heard that it refused to dive. It prefer to float all the way.

Alright, nothing’s perfect. Even world reputable car makers, Toyota and Honda recalls their cars that having serious design and manufacturing defects.

However, how many times a submarine fail to dive? We won’t know. Maybe other countries faced the same problem, and treated the problem as top secret and nobody in the world knows about it.

But what we have?

Defense Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said: “We have a warranty on the sub and we are confident the builders can fix it.”

Good. It’s so great attitude that our minister is honest enough to let people know about the defect. And, even better is, we know that we have to rely 100% on the ‘builders’ to fix it.

I just want to ask some question.

1. The problem occurred because of manufacturing defect, or because of human error while operating it?

2. Why the problem was not at first detected before the sub was handed over? Why our Ministry of Defense willing to accept such a sub quality product?

3. Is that a very serious failure, so complicated that our own engineers (I believe, we of course have packaged trainings for service engineers in the procurement contract), not able to solve? Or due to reliance to the ‘builder’, we don’t even bother to build our skill sets to solve the problems.

So, enough of bullshxt. We don’t even need  a submarine at the first place. So what the hey if the sub can only float. What’s bothers more is our attitude towards problems when shxt happens.

I guess there won’t be much objection if I conclude that the attitude of what MinDef showed on this problem is ‘FAILED’.