KUALA LUMPUR: To be honest, I was thinking of doing something else tonight but the sound of a Fenestron-equipped helicopter inspired me to write this posting. As it is pitch black tonight, I am unable to positively identify the helicopter, which started doing the circuit about 9pm, but I am […]
KUALA LUMPUR: If one was troubled by the PV fiasco, outrage should be the natural reaction after reading the Auditor-General report on the management of the Army’s personal combat equipment. Why outrage? It is not only the amount of money wasted on defective equipment but the fact that the Army […]
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: The New Straits Times ran a story on Saturday on the Mi-17 based on the Auditor-General’s annual report. Excerpts from the story: KUALA LUMPUR: Two helicopters worth RM117.75 million purchased for the police air wing could not be used as they did not meet Department of Civil Aviation […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Defence looked hard and long for news on the defence allocation in the 2008 budget in various news outlets but to no avail. Only after reading through the whole budget speech that Malaysian Defence found it. You can also find it in line 126 of Pak Lah […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The top and bottom pictures are those of the Al Khalid MBT from Pakistan. The pictures was taken by Malaysian Defence in November last year during the IDEAS exhibition in Karachi. The three other pictures are the PT91 MBTs of Kor Armor DiRaja which made its debut during […]
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 […]
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 […]
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