SHAH ALAM: A RMN clearance diver has died while conducting salvage operation on the sunken KD Pendekar, southeast Johor, today. RMN identified the diver as Leading Seaman 1 Arman San Hermasan,28. His body was recovered by other RMN personnel and was sent to the Sultan Ismail Hospital in Johor Baru […]
SHAH ALAM: 45-year-old fast attack craft – KD Pendekar -pennant number 3513, sunk off Tanjung Penyusop, south-east Johor, this afternoon (August 25) almost four hours after colliding with an underwater object. The thirty-nine crew members of the Handalan-class FAC were rescued by passing a merchant ship. The ship struck the […]
SHAH ALAM: RMN’s LMS Batch 2 bigger size and better capabilities is the result of ongoing and continuous China’s intrusion into Malaysian maritime zone, Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin said in a reply to a written question in Parliament today. Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai asked why LMS Batch 2 […]
SHAH ALAM: RMAF flew the body of former Sarawak governor and chief minister Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud from Subang airbase to the Kuching international airport today (February 21). Taib, 87, died earlier in the morning at a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur. Taib was also a former Defence Minister, serving […]
SHAH ALAM: It appears that the first RMAF Mig-29 Fulcrum to be turn into a gate guard has left Kuantan airbase. A video on Facebook by Adam Johan dated January 4 showed tail number M43-06 being taken out from the base aircraft shelters and placed on a low-loader truck. In […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears half of the 18 Self Propelled Howitzer (SPH) – once they are procured and delivered to the Army – will be based at Camp Paradise in Kota Belud, Sabah. The SPH will be operated by the 22 Rejimen Artileri DiRaja (22 RAD) – a unit which […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears that the Army has not repaired a Gempita IFV25 from 19 RMR (Mechanised) which got involved in a road accident in Sandakan in 2019. This was revealed in a post by the unit in its official Facebook page. 19 RMR used the vehicle in a briefing […]
SHAH ALAM: Some four weeks after its delivery to the RMN, PC Sri Sabah – pennant number 46 – has moved to the RMN base at Kuantan port, the Regional Headquarters 1 or Markas Wilayah 1. The arrival of Sri Sabah was made public on Mawilla 1 X account (formerly […]
SHAH ALAM: 4 KAD based in Kuching, Sarawak, it appears has received the full complement of its 26 Gempita armoured vehicles. This was evident during a recent inspection exercise where at least 12 Gempita were seen in a Facebook post by the 1 Infantry Division. The post did not say […]
SHAH ALAM: Mejar Farah Diba Ahmad Rostam was promoted to Lt Colonel today and appointed as the commanding officer of No. 16 Skuadron. Her promotion was conducted by RMAF deputy chief Lt Jen DS Muhamad Norazlan Aris at RMAF headquarters at the Defence Ministry. Farah Diba is the first female […]
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