KUALA LUMPUR: It looks like that everybody else is still buying hardware apart from the armed forces, oh, well….BTW, MMEA accepted the first of the two Bombardier CL-415s amphibians last week. The Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department Orders Two AW139s AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: While we wallow in the economic crisis, looks who is spending more on defence. From AFP. Singapore Boosts Defense Spending 6 Percent By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SINGAPORE – Singapore, battling what likely is its worst-ever recession, plans to increase defense spending by 6.0 percent from a year ago, estimates […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The story below is self explanatory. With RMN stock of Exocets getting older day by day, isnt it time for us to follow suit on the French order? Of course, its prudent to wait for the economic crisis to be over and until the Block 3 upgrades are […]
Kuala Lumpur: Since the deferment of defence projects under the Ninth Malaysian Plan due to the economic crisis was announced last year, Malaysian Defence have been collecting news article and talking to people on the subject hoping to have a definitive list of these programmes. True to our nature however, […]
A CGI of the A400M. Airbus Military photo KUALA LUMPUR: The on-and off again Airbus A400M has hit another wall yet again. This time around Airbus Military (see release below) is asking the launch nations to bear with them yet again. Basically they are asking for a new round delays […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Defence was checking the Mindef website today and noticed something new and notable on the Tender page. Yes, they are still advertising the tenders although much of the defence budget has been cut. No new tender for 2009 however. Malaysian Defence do not have the time to […]
KD Tun Razak somewhere in the Atlantic. DCNS photo. KUALA LUMPUR: Its the new year and we are counting the days for the end of the Pak Lah administration. I know many will still believe that Najib wont be PM come next March but thats an issue for another forum. […]
KUALA LUMPUR: After years of resisting the move towards the more cost-effective ab-initio and basic flight training on single engine civilian airplanes, TUDM finally has called an open tender for such a programme this week. The tender “Perolehan Perkhidmatan Bagi Mengadakan Latihan Penerbangan AB-INITIO Untuk Kegunaan TUDM” ends on Jan […]
Barety with Mindef Sec-Gen Dato’ Abu Bakar Bin Hj Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR: The French are buying five more EC725 Caracals as part of its 2009-2014 defence procurement programme. Too bad that it did not released the cost of the purchase, so at least we can compare the price quoted for […]
KUALA LUMPUR: While we are still talking about making local defence products, our southern neighbour made an important breakthrough in the international defence market. And its the UK Armed Forces this time around, not a country desperate for arms. Thirty years ago it was the Singaporeans who were buying British […]
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