Nothing to do with Thailand. More so to do with zikapore. At that time, we had the KP in 2 places. One was in Hukou in Taiwan, and the other was in underground storage sheds in Singapore. As long as the KPs were not paraded during NDP and kept as secret, the Malaysians let it pass. Eventually, they realized the number that we had and the upgrades that we have on them. They had nothing that could even remotely stop the KP. Their assumption was that generally their Scorpions will take on our AMX-13, so light tank versus light tank is ok. But the KP versus the Scorpion is no win for them. They had to get something that can match the KP, and at that time, the Poles were willing to offset the price of the tanks with palm oil.