KUALA LUMPUR: Auditor general report. The past week, the local media had a field day reporting on the 2006 Auditor-General Report (scroll down the left to find the report in PDF form). After a week of media frenzy which culminated in Saturday’s reports – on the new KPI points for […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Mohamad Zin told parliament yesterday that the Nuri replacement would be decided after the international open tender closed in December. Huh? Did they already floated the tender? Did Kementah realised that some people in London, Rome and Toulouse knew about the tender first before […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Happy Merdeka to everyone! As promised Malaysian Defence went to Dataran Merdeka today not to be part of the Giant Parade but the chance to get close to Malaysian Army first MBT, the Polish made PT-91. Six PT-91s made its debut at the parade, four on their own […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The Bernama story below is self-explainatory. Malaysian Defence, however, maintains its earlier story. I stand to be corrected though. As Malaysian Defence remains in Shah Alam instead of Dataran, it is difficult to say who is wrong or right in this instance. Bernama could be correct as the […]
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KUALA LUMPUR: Bernama story on the Kitty Hawk states that the ship is here until Merdeka. Anyhow, somehow a mistake crept into the story. “He said it was also a meaningful event for all the crew before they brought the carrier home for decommissioning, due next year. It will be […]
One of the Hornets landing at Subang on Tuesday.KUALA LUMPUR: Long time readers will realise that Malaysian Defence lives in Shah Alam next to the Subang Airport. So the last four days, we have experienced an impromptu air show by RMAF fighters landing at Subang after conducting flybys over Dataran […]
KUALA LUMPUR: For those puzzled by the large number of Americans in town, please note that the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) , the last conventional aircraft carrier in US Navy active service, is in town. She arrived at Port Klang over the weekend. As usual there was a news blackout, […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As we wait for the arrival of the first batch of PT91 main battle tanks from Poland, another Discovery channel programme, The Greatest Ever, also arrived on the local satellite channel, Astro. In one of the episodes last week, it proclaimed Germany’s MBT, the Leopard, as the Greatest […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As I write this, Discovery Channel Megastructures programme is highlighting Super Copters, most notably the AgustaWestland EH101. The EH101 is Malaysian Defence readers favourite helicopter for the RMAF Nuri replacement programme. It is one of the most capable helicopters around apart from the NH90 and the Sikorsky S92 […]
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