>>64151695
We learn the hard way after failure of Project PERISTA. The Americans are cannot be completely trusted as the Malaysian sees how the mighty American have to kneel before their economy "partner". The Singaporean lobby.

Malaysian MiG-29 and Su-30 purchases are inherently affected by US export policies. Missiles Americans are willing to sell for US made fighters for Malaysia or Indonesia will always drag couple model generations behind what they have sold to Australia or Singapore. The real reason why RMAF bought MiG-29's is because Americans refused to sell 'em AMRAAM's for Hornets. US strategic partnership with Singapore basically means that US will not supply anything to Malaysia that would pose serious threat to Singapore. They literally approved sale of AMRAAM's to Malaysia only in 2015 and amount was like 6 captive training missiles, 10 live missiles and option for another 10 missiles.