KUALA LUMPUR: The Thais (see the story below) has announced its attention to buy 12 Saab Gripens for US$1 billion earlier this week. If the deal goes through (depending on Thai politics with an election coming in December and whether or not the US would allow the deal to go […]
KUALA LUMPUR: TO be fair to the army and the armed forces, I must add that the lack of good leadership seemed to pervade the whole society. Malaysia is now ruled generally by a bunch of leaders who got to the top “by who they know and not what they […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s top soldier and one of his generals seemed to have a different opinion on the toughness of the current batch of recruits joining the force (see bernama story below). But in the next breath, Tan Sri Muhammad Ismail quickly corrected himself, stating it could be that […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I was relaxing at dusk on the first day of Raya in Padang Tengku when my nephew turned on the TV and clicked on RTM1. On show was a documentary I believed was titled Pengorbanan Syawal (Syawal Sacrifice). The documentary was on the General Operations Force operations along […]
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A Brahmos missile being test fired KUALA LUMPUR: The story bellow from Bernama is self-explanatory. Malaysian Defence had speculated some months back on the impending purchase of the Indo-Russia cruise missile. And I believe it will not be limited to the air-launched version either. India Ready To Sell Supersonic Brahmos […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The story from Bernama is self-explainatory. Najib did not specify how much is the budget although he did mentioned that they were looking for 12 helicopters. Malaysian Defence hopes this contract will be managed competently unlike the NGPV project. Malaysian Defence will be looking at the project in […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As expected AgustaWestland AW101 is the clear winner for Malaysian Defence poll for the favourite helicopter to replace the Nuri. The AW101 (formerly EH101) led the hustings from the start when Malaysian Defence was hosted at blogspot and when it went Dot Com, the chosen helicopter for the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The investigation into the Nuri crash, without saying out loud, basically stated that the crash was due to the pilots mistakes. Although, they were kind enough not to say it out loud that it was CFT, from what was reported it is clear that the board believes that […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Bernama quoted Armed Forces chief that the Nuri crash report would be released tomorrow. Malaysian Defence hopes it will answer some questions. Hopefully some other questions will be asked. Nuri Crash Report To Be Submitted To DPM Today General September 26, 2007 15:18 PM KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 […]
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