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More Mortars for the Army, May 2024. Updated

SHAH ALAM: Back in June 2023, Malaysian Defence reported that the Army took delivery of fourty-eight 81mm mortars. The mortars which were procured under a tender published in 2019 which were to be supplied together with a transporter. The number of mortars to be supplied is seventy-two which means the […]

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ISS Contract for BHIC’s Subsidiary

SHAH ALAM: BHIC Submarine Engineering Services Sdn Bhd (BSES) has been awarded the LOA for an expansion of the Scope of Work and additional Contract Ceiling Price for the In-Service Support Interim for the Royal Malaysian Navy Prime Minister Class Submarines. The LOA is RM43.6 million, said BHIC in a […]

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More ATVs for the Army, Part 2

SHAH ALAM: Early last month, Malaysian Defence wrote that the Army’s Ordnance Division issued three separate quotation notices to supply ten of the ATV for units conducting border patrols in the northern peninsula, Sabah, and Sarawak – for a total of thirty. This was the same reason the division issued […]

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Cloudy with No Black Hawks in Sight

SHAH ALAM: Malaysian Defence in previous three postings had written on the headwinds in the introduction of the four Black Hawk helicopters leased for the Army’s Air Wing or Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat (PUTD). The contract for the four helicopters was signed at LIMA 2023. The current forecast is now […]

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Goose M4 Coming, Part 2. Updated

SHAH ALAM: Back in July 2023, Malaysian Defence reported that a tender for procurement, supply, testing and delivery of an 84mm anti-tank weapon system or the Saab Carl Gustav M4 – the latest version of the recoilless rifle – was floated on the Eperolehan website. The tender was for 110 […]

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Second Hornet Returns To Service

SHAH ALAM: RMAF today took delivery of F/A-18D M45-07 after the completion of her Local Planned Maintenance 12 Years (LPM12Y) programme at the Butterworth airbase. She is the second Hornet to undergo the LPM12Y programme after tail number 01. RMAF took delivery of 01 on January 5, last year. RMAF […]

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Fire Fighting Tenders For RMAF

SHAH ALAM: The Defence Ministry has issued a MTO tender to deliver eight Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Vehicle (ARFFV) for RMAF. The eight vehicles will be shipped from Port of Savona in Italy to Subang airbase material depot. The eight ARFFV is manufactured by Magirus Italy at its plant in […]

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Its Electric Motorcycles

SHAH ALAM: In the first post on the quotation notice for fourty-five e-bikes for the Army, I wrote that it may well that the Army was looking for electric motorcycles. However, upon finding out that the sole company that took part had bid RM491,055 for each separate notice, I stated […]

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An Ada Class Coming to Town

SHAH ALAM: TCG Kinaliada – the fourth ship of the Ada class – will be visiting Malaysia in mid-May as part of a five month deployment to Japan and neighbouring countries. The ship according to Defense News left Turkiye on April 8. The publication stated: The navy deployed its Ada-class […]

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GOF APC Winner Revealed

SHAH ALAM: Back in June, last year, Malaysian Defence wrote about the tender for four armoured personnel carriers (APC) for the General Operations Force or Pasukan Gerakan Am of the police. Among the specifications for the APC are: An APC with a turbo-diesel engine with no less than 4,500cc; with […]