KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s top soldier and one of his generals seemed to have a different opinion on the toughness of the current batch of recruits joining the force (see bernama story below). But in the next breath, Tan Sri Muhammad Ismail quickly corrected himself, stating it could be that […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As expected AgustaWestland AW101 is the clear winner for Malaysian Defence poll for the favourite helicopter to replace the Nuri. The AW101 (formerly EH101) led the hustings from the start when Malaysian Defence was hosted at blogspot and when it went Dot Com, the chosen helicopter for the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The investigation into the Nuri crash, without saying out loud, basically stated that the crash was due to the pilots mistakes. Although, they were kind enough not to say it out loud that it was CFT, from what was reported it is clear that the board believes that […]
KUALA LUMPUR: In my earlier post on the PV fiasco, Malaysian Defence mistakenly reported that the sixth ship of Kedah class will be in service by 2010. After reading the Auditor General report again, Malaysian Defence realised that there was a chance that the whole project could collapsed if more […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The top and bottom pictures are those of the Al Khalid MBT from Pakistan. The pictures was taken by Malaysian Defence in November last year during the IDEAS exhibition in Karachi. The three other pictures are the PT91 MBTs of Kor Armor DiRaja which made its debut during […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Defence was checking out the new Army website tonight for the latest developments. The website has been under construction the last few months and even now, after it went live, the site remained under development. As usual I checked the Buletin TDM, now operating from another IP […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The two Scorpene submarines for RMN are to be named KD Tunku Abdul Rahman and KD Tun Abdul Razak, after the first two premiers of the country.The names of the submarines was announced by Navy chief Tan Sri Ramlan Mohamad Ali in Cartagena, Spain at the joining ceremony […]
KUALA LUMPUR: An update on the Flanker story. It is not coming to Kuantan air base, which shared the runway with the local airport. The Flanker squadrons would instead be based at the newly constructed Gong Kedak air base, located about 150 nm north from Kuantan. The airbase, previously equipped […]
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 […]
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 […]
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