defence Industry

New National Defence Industry Policy

SHAH ALAM: Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin in his new year message on January 16 2024 announced that the National Defence Industry Policy 2025 (DIPN25) will be launched at LIMA 2025 this May. The ministry also launched a portal for public feedback. Unfortunately, as of today the portal is still […]

defence Industry

Former RMAF chief Appointed BHIC Chairman

SHAH ALAML Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Bhd (BHIC) has appointed former RMAF chief TS Roslan Saad,68, as its independent non-executive chairman. The company which lost some RM14 million when it divested its stake in Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn Bhd earlier this week made the announcement on December 26. The Edge […]

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Two Nuri Helicopters For Students Training

SHAH ALAM: Two Nuri helicopters – M23-02 and M23-07 – stored at the Kuching airbase following their retirement in 2019/2020 will be used a training aid for students of Centre for Technology Excellence Sarawak Sdn Bhd or CENTEX. The technical and vocational training institute is under Yayasan Sarawak. The hand-over […]

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More Details of Damen MPSS

SHAH ALAM: Dutch shipyard builder has unveiled more details and pictures of the multi-purpose support ship (MPSS) which it is co-developing with Portuguese Navy. In the previous report on the MPSS, it was called multi purpose vessel. In the report, I mentioned that I like the vessel as it appears […]

Defence Contract

Acoustic Hailing Devices For CB90s

SHAH ALAM: Markas Wilayah Laut 2 (Mawilla 2) based in Sandakan, Sabah has issued three separate quotation notices for the purchase of six acoustic hailing devices for six CB90s fast combat boats, under its command. The three seven-day notices for two acoustic hailing devices each, published on April 1, were […]

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BHIC Appoints New CE0

SHAH ALAM: Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC) has appointed Feroz Razi Ramli, 45 as its new chief executive officer. Feroze replaces Sharifuddin Zaini Al-Manaf, 53, who completed his tenure as CEO after holding the post since April 1, 2020, the group said in a bourse filing on March 31. […]

Asean and Malaysia

The Joneses… SG New MRCV

SHAH ALAM: ST Engineering Marine Ltd is expected to deliver the first of six Multi-Role Combat Vessels (MRCV) to the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) by 2028, it was announced on March 27. Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) announced that its subsidiary, ST Engineering had received the contract for […]

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More MTO Tenders, Ammo and Mortar Bombs

SHAH ALAM: More MTO tenders, small arms ammo and mortar bombs. Back in March, last year, Malaysian Defence reported that the tender for 12.5 million rounds of 5.56mm SS109/M855 ball ammo was awarded to Traumland Sdn Bhd for a contract of RM30.6 million. It is likely that the ammunition is […]