SHAH ALAM: Almost 14 months ago (December 7 2023), IGP TS Razarudin Husain announced that the Home Ministry has approved an allocation of some RM22 million for the procurement of vehicles, anti-riot dogs and firearms for the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU). Some of the items he mentioned – personnel protection […]
SHAH ALAM: The Procurement division of the Defence Ministry has issued a twenty-one-day tender for the supply, delivery and commissioning of six tactical insertion craft or jet skis for the Army. The jet skis will be used for the Special Service Group or the Grup Gerak Khas. The public specifications […]
SHAH ALAM: Some 14 months after RMAF appointed the first female flying squadron commanding officer, another milestone was achieved today when the service appointed the first female pilot to head a Hercules squadron. Major Norlela Harun formally took over as the CO of No 20 Skuadron, the Subang based Hercules […]
SHAH ALAM: The Defence Ministry has issued tenders for uniforms in bulk which it has not done so in the last few years for unknown reasons. The biggest tender is for 334,485 pairs of No 3 uniform or dress for the Army for a period of three years. Two other […]
SHAH ALAM: The Army is getting more high frequency radios for its vehicles, a tender for such radios revealed. The tender for 113 HF vehicular radios was published on December 31 and closes on January 31. As it mentioned vehicular radios, these are meant for the Fitted For Radio vehicles […]
SHAH ALAM: Trawling through the tender page on the Defence Ministry website recently – the Hercules upgrade project – I found other interesting things as well. Two of them are tenders for infrastructure projects – the first is to upgrade facilities at the Kuantan airbase for the FLIT/LCA. The second […]
SHAH ALAM: In a previous post, I lamented that Malaysia was the only Asean founding country which is importing its small arms ammo from others despite having a domestic factory on its own. And despite this two companies had announced that they were also building a small arms ammo factory […]
SHAH ALAML Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Bhd (BHIC) has appointed former RMAF chief TS Roslan Saad,68, as its independent non-executive chairman. The company which lost some RM14 million when it divested its stake in Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn Bhd earlier this week made the announcement on December 26. The Edge […]
SHAH ALAM: Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Bhd (BHIC) lost some RM14.82 million by selling its 51 per cent equity stake in Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn Bhd (CAD) to Rheinmetall AG, a German automotive and arms manufacturer. CAD was the company which was given the most contracts for the LCS project. […]
SHAH ALAM: After the confirmation of the delivery of the Saab NLAW at DSA 2024 earlier this year, we finally get official pictures of the anti-tank weapons – in the wild, not just on show, mind you – but being fired during an exercise, early this month. It is interesting […]
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