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Defence Contract

Divine Intervention?

Captions Amin Shah (top) Razak Baginda I have been thinking about this for the last two weeks. I am not sure whether it is appropriate but it seems that those who received defence contracts may have got richer but their lives have not been that blessed. Razak Baginda, who got […]

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Malaysian Defence

Pak Lah and the Old Man

The current stand-off between Pak Lah and Old Man is not doing any good to the country. I have been trying to distance myself from commenting on politics but as defence is part of politics, one cannot forever remain aloof of what is going on in the society. A country […]

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Malaysian Defence

Assault Rilfle, Again

HK416 G36C I was reading the Small Arms Review magazine earlier in the day. One of the articles in the issue was about the Colt SCAR rifle. It was Colt losing candidate for the US Special Operations Command new rifle, the Spec Ops Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR). So there was […]

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Malaysian Defence

Waiting for UNIFIL, again

Its confirmed, the Malaysian contingent for the Lebanon will leave for the Middle East country on Nov 5. And it appears that the Malaysian contingent will fly there via Hercules transport planes. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, it is probably wiser if we flew on chartered 747s but […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Operators Or Good Old Fashioned Infantry

SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian battalion set to go to Lebanon under the UN banner will comprise 160 special forces operators and 200 soldiers for administrative and logistics purposes. I can understand the need for SF to be in midst things but Unifil mission profile does not actually support the need […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Told You So…

If only someone was smart enough to issue out notices on the paper or tv that no one should be worried about low flying planes… news story from Bernama is self-explanatory… FOREIGN AIRCRAFT INVOLVED IN FPDA EXERCISE — NAJIB PEKAN, Sept 23 (Bernama) — Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib […]

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Asean and Malaysia

Thai Coup

I am not paranoid but the coup in Thai had me wondering. What if the new military govt decided to attack Malaysia due to their long-standing believe that we have been supporting the Islamic militants in southern Thailand? As the UK and Aussie air forces, here due to the Ex-Starfish […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Like an Ostrich

Malaysia seems to host a lot of foreign forces lately. Currently, UK and Aussie air forces are in country for the Starfish exercise under the Five Power Defence Arrangement as I mentioned in my earlier posts (Sentru in Subang)Unfortunately, as other joint training exercise like with the US (Carat), we […]