Kuala Lumpur: I was watching the Discovery Channel tonight and found an interesting documentary entitled International Submarine Rescue AS-28. The documentray chronicled the rescue of the AS-28, a Russian mini-sub in the waters off Kamchatka. A Royal Navy remotely operated vehicle – the Scorpio – cut the Russian sub free. […]
Air Force F-22 Raptors train with Navy F/A-18 HornetsF-22 Raptors deployed to Kadena Air Base, Japan, trained with U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets April 26, 2007, near the waters of Okinawa. The Super Hornets, from VFA-27 “The Royal Maces,” are stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, and are the […]
It seems that Cobra Gold 07 is going through despite the southern Thai troubles. Malaysia is not involved, of course, apart from observers I believe. The Malaysian Govt had in early 80s had decided not to be involved in the exercise which was thought up by the Thais and US. […]
Story from Bernama follows. KD Pahang is a brand new ship. I wonder if the Singaporeans will allow the RSS Formidable to Langkawi for Lima 07. Bernama.com Malaysian National News AgencyMalaysia Warships For IMDEX Asia 2007 GeneralMay 07, 2007 10:45 AMSINGAPORE, May 7 (Bernama) — Two Royal Malaysian Navy warships […]
The news story follows, it is the fourth crash of the Mk208 and the first to be non-fatal. Based on the little information, it was most probably an engine failure. For the other three Malaysian Defence could only make educated guesses as RMAF have never released the investigation report. A […]
If you read this news on May Day by the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), you might have missed the biggest Malaysian Defence news in 2007, the arrival of the Sukhoi Su-30MKM Super Flanker 581 FIRMS HAVE CONFIRMED PARTICIPATION IN LIMA ’07 — MALAYSIAN DEPUTY PM KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 […]
TV3 news on May 2 reported that the cadet who was ragged by his seniors at the Air Force Training College has resigned. His father claimed that his son made dthe decision after a trainer mocked him for making a report against his tormenors. Malaysian Defence had written about the […]
Two days after Malaysian Defence wrote about the need to set-up the Defence Procurement Oversight Committee for the sake of transparency, MINDEF came out with this press release (courtesy of Bernama). Subs And Fighters Procurement Above Board – Mindef GeneralApril 26, 2007 23:35 PMKUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) — The […]
Johor Bahru MP Datuk Shahrir chaired the Public Accounting Committee which conduct a relatively mild investigations into Government projects and funding. Apart from its lack of power, the committee can only look into a project/funding after the money is gone. With a lot of unproven allegations -mostly corruption – have […]
To be honest I was flabbergasted. I was searching for the most search word for Malaysia on the net and the answer was Utusan Malaysia. It even topped the most searched word for March. Anyhow, Utusan Malaysia (its a Malay-language paper) seems to be the only one interested to write […]
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