KUALA LUMPUR: I know many high ranking cops, current and recently retired, carry their personal Walther PPK as their duty and off-duty hand gun. So it was no surprise to me when I was told that the police concluded a deal to purchase some 20,000 Walther P99 the current Bond […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The story below from AFP is self-explainatory but it seems to be something that we all thankful for. Around the same time, the Aussie was buying the Kaman SeaSprites, MINDEF, if I remembered correctly, was also on the verge of buying the same helicopters for the Navy. Actually, […]
SHAH ALAM: Dear Sir, Congratulations on winning your second term in office. I believe it is time to stop the celebrations even with the losses suffered and take a hard look at the defence sector which had been on the sidelines for the last three decades despite being one of […]
KUALA LUMPUR: A friend asked me to share the pictures I took during the Singapore Air Show. Honestly I did not take too many pictures during the show as perhaps I was not too interested in capturing old products. Anyway here is some of the pictures I took during the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I heard the news as I was about to go to Singapore but due to the technical snafu was unable to update the site. Since it was not the biggest news in the world I defer to it until today. RMN sent out a long Press release on […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As promised I am posting the videos I took during Singapore Air Show last week. I wanted to update the site from Singapore but due technical gremlins, I was unable to do so. The flight line video. The B1B and the Airbus A380 were the show stoppers, without […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I am off to Singapore tomorrow for what some say is the biggest airshow outside Paris and London, starting on Tuesday. I hope to update Malaysian Defence from Singapore on a daily basis together with pix and videos. Hope to see you here. Anyway if any of you […]
KUALA LUMPUR: On Tuesday, the Nuri Replacement Tender expired officially, one month longer than the original deadline reportedly due to requests from helicopter manufacturers. When and who will win the tender for 12 utility helicopters with SAR capabilities is up to the gods now (how and why remains men’s decision, […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I have been trying to discuss this on a new post after comments from En Adrian but gremlins prevented me from posting the pix of the Kasturi SLEP as proposed by Boustead and as such I have delayed this post for some time now. So on with the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As I had feared there is no new equipment heading to the new Border Regiment, just a matter of administration from a volunteer-based force (300 series) into a regular army unit. Its means a flag command, most probably a Colonel position at this moment in time, but a […]
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