Kuala Lumpur: Without the tender document on hand, Malaysian Defence could only speculate on the accessories that the Armed Forces is specifying for its weapons. Since the arms to be selected are not top-secret laser pulse weapons,. Malaysian Defence can be forgiven for speculating the accessories. In the future, however, […]
KUALA LUMPUR: IF you go here www.mod.gov.my and scroll down to the tender section, you will find that the latest the procurement tender 35/2007; dated May 29. There are 11 items on the tender and interestingly five of them are related to firearms. First item is For The Supply And […]
1) Airbus MRTT2) KC-767 Transport3) A RMAF Hercules. A globe-trotting taxi. KUALA LUMPUR: The local media went ga-ga over the flight of a RMAF C-130 Hercules to Irkusk in Russia for the official hand-over of the Sukhoi Su-30MKM. RMAF chief claimed that it was the first time that a Hercules […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Defence refers to the news story from Bernama. I hope the Antonov An-124 flies to Subang! Way back in 1995 however, the transport planes flew straight to Kuantan airbase. Bah humbug! Fighter Jets Demonstrated To Malaysian Air Force GeneralMay 24, 2007 16:38 PM MOSCOW, May 24 (Bernama) […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The news story below sounds interesting. Coconut husks as a replacement for kevlar. I will get more update on this. Bernama.comMalaysian National News Agency UTeM Prof Wins Gold Award For Coconut Fibres Hybrid Composite Armour GeneralMay 22, 2007 17:31 PM MELAKA, May 22 (Bernama) — A deputy dean […]
The Brahmos missile Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Defence noticed the news story which was published by the Associated Press of Pakistan on Saturday BrahMos cruise missiles to be exported to a “friendly” country NEW DELHI, May 19 (APP): The first contract for the commercial export of jointly developed Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise […]
Kuala Lumpur: I was watching the Discovery Channel tonight and found an interesting documentary entitled International Submarine Rescue AS-28. The documentray chronicled the rescue of the AS-28, a Russian mini-sub in the waters off Kamchatka. A Royal Navy remotely operated vehicle – the Scorpio – cut the Russian sub free. […]
It seems that Cobra Gold 07 is going through despite the southern Thai troubles. Malaysia is not involved, of course, apart from observers I believe. The Malaysian Govt had in early 80s had decided not to be involved in the exercise which was thought up by the Thais and US. […]
The news story follows, it is the fourth crash of the Mk208 and the first to be non-fatal. Based on the little information, it was most probably an engine failure. For the other three Malaysian Defence could only make educated guesses as RMAF have never released the investigation report. A […]
Johor Bahru MP Datuk Shahrir chaired the Public Accounting Committee which conduct a relatively mild investigations into Government projects and funding. Apart from its lack of power, the committee can only look into a project/funding after the money is gone. With a lot of unproven allegations -mostly corruption – have […]
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