KUALA LUMPUR: The Bernama story below answered Malaysian Defence questions in my earlier post. Anway after the ceremony, one of the six Sukhois took off and performed a short fly past over the RMAF airbase With its wing facing the ground, it looped down to fly past the Subang air […]
KUALA LUMPUR: A Sukhoi Su-30MKM was seen flying over Subang this afternoon. It was flying away from me as it was making a break and turn to land at the airport around 1pm. Even though it was flying away, I could easily identify it as a Flanker due to the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The story below by Bernama left me wondering why we are so slow when it comes to Darfur. I remembered, last year, when the peacekeeping mission to Lebanon was announced, Malaysia was tripping its heels to get its troops there. This time around, it is strangely in a […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The two Scorpene submarines for RMN are to be named KD Tunku Abdul Rahman and KD Tun Abdul Razak, after the first two premiers of the country.The names of the submarines was announced by Navy chief Tan Sri Ramlan Mohamad Ali in Cartagena, Spain at the joining ceremony […]
KUALA LUMPUR: A tender which appeared (see below) call for the supply of three (3) 7.62 mm sniper rifles complete with accessories for the Malaysian Government appeared in the Mindef website on July 24. Why is MINDEF looking to purchase three sniper rifles? Only about two months ago, a tender […]
KUALA LUMPUR: A failed football adminstrator and Member of Parliament recently suggested that a Federal Search and Rescue team be set-up following the tardiness of locating the crash Nuri. He said that the special team would be able to find the helicopter quickly, which is of course, hogwash. Without an […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Of course, the title of the Bernama story below explains everything. But why would they wait so long? Infact, they have been talking about it since almost two decades now. So what turned the screw? The fact that the money has already been allocated in the Ninth Malaysian […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Its confirmed that all six RMAF personnel perished in the Nuri crash. The wreckage was finally found about 1.24pm on Jan 17, five days after it went missing. Malaysian Defence offers condolences to their families and love ones The remains have yet to be recovered as the wreckage […]
KUALA LUMPUR: From the headlines below from Bernama, it is obvious that the search and rescue team have yet to locate the Nuri (Sikorsky Sea King S-61) which crashed into the jungles around Genting Highlands around 9.35am yesterday (July 13).July 14, 2007 21:46 PMNo Sign Of Copter As Aerial Search […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As Malaysian Defence published these report, there is no word on whether the Nuri (picture above, Sikorsky Sea King) helicopter and its crew have been found. It crashed about 9.35am (almost 15 hours ago) and still they have yet to track it. Lets hope everybody on board survives […]
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