SHAH ALAM: Keeping up with the Joneses.Canada appears to snub Boeing for Canadian-made MPA, (the P-4) that has been proposed to the RMAF. As the RMAF’s search for a fleet of Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) is reported to be nearly complete, I contacted Keith Stoodley, CEO for PAL Aerospace based […]
SHAH ALAM: New serial numbers. It appears that the newly delivered Leonardo AW139 helicopters have been assigned the standard registration numbers for leased aircraft, the M1++ series. The latest pictures of the helicopters revealed that their tail numbers are M104-01; M104-2 and M104-3. The fourth aircraft once delivered from Weststar […]
SHAH ALAM: Dassault Aviation has signed a contract with Indonesia for the purchase of 42 Rafale Omni-role fighters in Jakarta today. From Dassault Aviation: (Saint-Cloud, France, February 10, 2022) – In the presence of the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, and the Indonesian Minister of Defence, Prabowo […]
SHAH ALAM: Shine a light. The FLIT-LCA tender saga is not to end soon – I am told – but there is another issue that had perplexed me so far. This involved the participation of one aircraft type and the non-entry of two more. If you aware either through my […]
SHAH ALAM: Communications mods on Keris class. It appears that apart from the modification of ultra/very high frequency radios from China made ones to Rohde & Schwarz ones, the Keris class 11th LMS squadron had and are also getting GPS receivers. The installation of the GPS receivers was revealed when […]
SHAH ALAM: Another nail in the coffin. According to the Defence Minister DS Hishammuddin Hussein last December, the ministry was finalising the National Defence and Security Industry blueprint (DIPKN) which will be published this year. The DIPKN was among the initiatives put forward by the Defence White Paper 2019 which […]
SHAH ALAM: Adnan upgrades and FNSS briefing. Back in 2020, Malaysian Defence reported on the modernization of the FNSS ACV300 funded by the Turkish government. As the Army was also mulling over the life extension programme for its Adnan (ACV300) fleet, I suggested that we tagged along with the Turkish […]
SHAH ALAM: Veteran shipbuilder Ahmad Yusof Mohamad,65, has been appointed as the chief executive officer of TH Heavy Engineering Bhd (THHE) effective February 1, the company, a subsidiary of Urusharta Jamaah Sdn Bhd announced in a statement. NST reported that THHE said as an independent non-executive director since March 2021 […]
SHAH ALAM: Ides of March. According to Wikipedia, The Ides of March is the 74th day in the Roman calendar, corresponding to March 15. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. The deadline for settling of debts seemed […]
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