KUALA LUMPUR: The story below from AFP is self-explainatory but it seems to be something that we all thankful for. Around the same time, the Aussie was buying the Kaman SeaSprites, MINDEF, if I remembered correctly, was also on the verge of buying the same helicopters for the Navy. Actually, […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I heard the news as I was about to go to Singapore but due to the technical snafu was unable to update the site. Since it was not the biggest news in the world I defer to it until today. RMN sent out a long Press release on […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I have been trying to discuss this on a new post after comments from En Adrian but gremlins prevented me from posting the pix of the Kasturi SLEP as proposed by Boustead and as such I have delayed this post for some time now. So on with the […]
RMN and Jebat Batch 2. What ever the cost? […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I was looking at the Tentera Laut Di Raja Malaysia website today and by chance clicked on the TLDM Armada link. I was surprised to find that the Kedah-class PVs. KD Kedah and KD Pahang, not listed in the armada’s list. Since the link was updated on Aug […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansur, DPM Najib Tun Razak officially launched KD Tunku Abdul Rahman in Cherbourg France, yesterday. Pix courtesy of RMN The boat will now undergo a commissioning period of at least two years before returning home. It is hope that this time around, TAR would beat […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The ACA have charged the ikan bilis over the abuses highlighted by the Auditor-General Report. See the story below as reported by Berita Harian reporters and translanted into NST. They have not said a word publicly on Mindef abuses. With the Scorpene launch today, I believed no one […]
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 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 […]
SHAH ALAM:It is now confirmed, RMN is getting two more frigates to supplement the KD Jebat and KD Lekiu. The new frigates is will be a derivative of Jebat and Lekiu, but with a different sort of missiles and combat systems. Probably a new gun too, most likely the Oto […]
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