KUALA LUMPUR: THE story below is self-explanatory. However, the RM402 million contract also opened a can of worms. While the Hawk engines will be overhauled it remained to be seen whether or not the government will fund the fleet mid-life update or Service Life Extension Programme (SLEP). As Malaysian Defence […]
KUALA LUMPUR: If you are in Lumut or in the vicinity this weekend, take your family to the naval base for the RMN Armada Open Day. The open day is held in conjunction with the RMN 75th Jubilee celebrations. On Friday, Sultan Perak will also declare Lumut as the naval […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The story from Bernama below explains everything. Military operations are not cheap, not even peace keeping missions. That is why we must be frugal in these trying times. Furthermore, the money spent is the short-term cost alone, and wont involved the long term costs of maintaining those ships […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Based on the story below my earlier guesstimate that the A400M, if we continue with the procurement, will most likely be inducted into RMAF by 2020, may well be correct. Malaysian Defence believes its time to cancel the deal and start looking for other options. We dont have […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Although its Letter of Intent for the Nuri Replacement Programme have come under attack (by none other than an Umno division leader, who had been awarded defence contracts in the past and now taken up by the opposition to attack the soon-to-be leaving PM and his designated replacement), […]
Cabinet Approves Purchase Of 21 Helicopters For Police Force LABUAN, Aug 12 (Bernama) — The Cabinet has approved the Royal Malaysian Police’s (PDRM) request for 21 helicopters of various types. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said the government has not however fixed the date of purchase. At present […]
* It had come to my attention that the figures cited below is incorrect in context to the theme of the discussion. The US$233 mentioned below is only for the initial contract. The whole contract for the 24 Electric Jets is actually US$2.4 billion. It is for that reason I […]
KUALA LUMPUR: RMN got a new chief today, Admiral Datuk Abdul Aziz Jaafar (pic) who took over from Tan Sri Ramlan Mohd Ali. If you took time to read Aziz biography below as listed by the RMN website, you’d notice that he is not one of the Lekiu admirals. In […]
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 […]
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