KUALA LUMPUR: Further reading.
Pictures taken on First Day
—Malaysian Defence
DSA 2010 Part I
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RM500 Million for 1MF1 Team
KUALA LUMPUR: They are going to spend close to RM500 million to start the 1MF1 team. How wonderful if those precious money is spend on our national security. Yeah, I know we wont be getting free publicity all over the world but we could get at least five medium size […]
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Russia Buys 64 Flankers for US$2.5 billion
KUALA LUMPUR: Based on the story below, it appears that we overpaid for our 18 Sukhoi Su-30MKM (US$900 million). The price for the 64 plane Russian deal (US$2.5 billion) was the same originally quoted for the Super Hornet, which include training and support of course. From Ria Novosti Russia’s Defense […]
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No Sukuk For The Needy
KUALA LUMPUR: It appears that the plan to use Sukuk (The Islamic equivalent for bonds) to raise money for the purchase of arms and defence-related infrastructure projects had been torpedoed by the Treasury. The main reason for this I am told is that it was a bad idea in the […]
Itu bukan PKM ler, UKW2000, modified for 7.62 NATO. PKM was sebelah.
You going back besok?
Marhalim: Again my mistake, yes, covering the whole week, did your company took over the Vamtac Uro?
No ler…nama similar aje. Don\’t do \’vehicles\’! I was planning to go back today (not exhibiting) but have to go invade a small red dot somewhere to the south.:)
Just saw your article on the Rosomak 8×8. I checked it out at DSA and their rep showed me how the V-bottomed hull sits on a separate ‘sub-chassis’ which itself is split in half. If there’s a huge blast they can clear off the remaining bits, and plug on an entire half sub-chassis module and get the thing on the road again.