SHAH ALAM: Back in June, General Hafizuddeain Jantan, was the deputy Army chief who witnessed the delivery of various equipment, mostly vehicles, small arms, boats, and its related equipment. Fast forward four months, Hafizuddeain, now the Army chief was the one who took official delivery of vehicles, combat accessories, boats, and its related equipment.
The Army release said a total of 661 units of equipment were officially delivered on October 31, amongst them, three-tonne GS cargo trucks, hybrid VTOL UAS, field ambulances, Automatic-Grenade Launcher vehicles, Special Operations Vehicles, assault boats, trailers, logistic support bridge, 60mm mortars, night vision goggles and binoculars.
The three-tonne GS Cargo trucks are of course the Iveco trucks supplied by Deftech as reported previously. The same trucks were delivered last June.
The AGL and Special Operations Vehicles are of course from Cendana Auto which won the contract for the vehicles, as also reported by Malaysian Defence. I was told that SOV looked some what different from the ones shown at DSA 2022, which I did not attend due to Covid 19. The vehicle carries four passenger and a driver and are armed with one heavy machine gun and two light machine gun.
The AGL carrier is one of the variants of the weapon carriers contracted to Cendana Auto, the other two being the HMG and ATGW vehicles. AVP Engineering Sdn Bhd was awarded the RM10.08 million contract to supply and deliver 18 field ambulances for the Army from a tender published in 2020.
Anyhow, the Army is getting three sets of the CW-25D hybrid VTOL UAS which is manufactured by JOUAV Drone Company of China. Each UAS system comprised of two UAV with a truck mounted command and control vehicle.
It is interesting to note that JOUAV website did not mentioned the D version of the CW-25 but Global Komited Sdn Bhd banners at the ceremony clearly stated its was supplying the CW-25D UAS to the Army (see above picture). The tender for the hybrid VTOL UAS complete with command-and-control vehicle was published in 2021 and the contract was awarded to Global Dos Sdn Bhd, with an LOA of RM10.75 million. The UAS is operated by the Malaysian Defence Intelligence Organisation.
The 60mm mortars delivered is the HDS M6 Commando version which is manufactured by Hirtenberger Defence Systems as posted earlier by Malaysian Defence. As stated in that post, the contract winner was not announced though from pictures from the ceremony, the company which won the tender was IFMS Technology Sdn Bhd.
The logistic support bridge delivered is likely part of the earlier order as posted here.
As for the NVG, this is likely from a tender published for 253 units of NVG for
The Special Forces Units, Infantry Battalions, and Combat Support Units such as Armoured, Engineer and Artillery Regiments are required to conduct operation during day and night. To enable them to conduct operation effectively, there is a need for these units to be equipped with night vision goggle. It shall be able to be used for land, air or maritime operations.
The LOA of RM17.5 million was awarded to Shafleena Venture Sdn Bhd. The Army did not identify the make of the NVG, though it is the Thales Nellie. As for the binoculars, it is likely a the one with laser range finder feature manufactured by Newcon Optik of Canada. The LOA of RM3.9 million for 60 binocular/laser range finders – tender published in 2021 – was awarded to Global Combined Technology Sdn Bhd.
As for the assault boats and trailer, it is likely the last batch of the items delivered to the Army. More on this here in the June post.
Post updated.
— Malaysian Defence.
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It’s good were getting UASs but most of what we’re getting ends up with the Malaysian Defence Intelligence Organisation or Royal Intelligence Corps. We have to start equipping infantry, armoured and artillery units with UASs; irrespective of whether or they’re cheaper commercial ones with less range and endurance and more vulnerable to EW:
We’ve long reached the stage [even before the Ukraine war] where UASs are essential and needed in large numbers; as well as being viewed and understood as expendable.
Ehh..I thought the army doesnt really like that SOV..or maybe cendana auto already tweak that SOV's design and build with inputs from army test team..Or maybe TD are forced to buy that SOV even when it doesnt meet their requirements?
No idea, whether they like it or not.
From Youtube, D variant is night vision variant
That UAS is something that could've been bought more if the military is satisfied with its performances and reliability. A winged VTOL is a pretty novel idea
The ATGW for these new ATGW carriers I assume will be the Karaok?
Yes, likely though some launchers may well go to GGK and 10 Para.
Dundun - “That UAS is something that could’ve been bought more if the military is satisfied with its performances and reliability”
What are you on about? It’s about funding; not about anything else. A lot of things are reliable and meet requirements: funding?
As part of the original plan a local design was supposed to have been bought and progressively upgraded but we know how well that went. If Aludra has met the requirement CTRM would never have had to acquire Scanesgles for lease to the government.
The skies the limit as to choices when buying from abroad; the problem was/is funding. We’ll do what we always do; buy a bit of something but never in sufficient quantities.
It's Thales NELLIE binocular NVG
>a lot of things are reliable
And? A lot of things that aren't as reliable and doesnt exactly meet the requirements and still got the funding
If we already have funding issue to begin with then should do we squander the little money we had on junks?
Is it really practical nowadays for our GGK to go on long range patrols or special ops in soft skinned vehicles? Even the SAS has abandoned their pink panther land rovers for armored mine protected Supacat Jackals given their experience with IED in Afghanistan.
Until they have the budget for it, armoured vehicles, they have to rely on soft skin vehicles. That said the SOV is lightly armoured I am told. Not too much as they need to change the chassis for it and a bigger budget of course.
Dundun - “should do we squander the little money we had on junks”
What “junks” have we bought or are going to buy? Share it with me. Please ....