SHAH ALAM: The National Security Council or Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN) is upgrading the infrastructure and the aerodrome facilities at Pulau Layang-Layang or Stesen LIMA, Malaysia’s biggest facility on the Spratlys Island in the South China Sea. The upgrading work was made public by the Defence Engineering Division of the […]
SHAH ALAM: Some four weeks after its delivery to the RMN, PC Sri Sabah – pennant number 46 – has moved to the RMN base at Kuantan port, the Regional Headquarters 1 or Markas Wilayah 1. The arrival of Sri Sabah was made public on Mawilla 1 X account (formerly […]
SHAH ALAM: 4 KAD based in Kuching, Sarawak, it appears has received the full complement of its 26 Gempita armoured vehicles. This was evident during a recent inspection exercise where at least 12 Gempita were seen in a Facebook post by the 1 Infantry Division. The post did not say […]
SHAH ALAM: United Arab Emirates has taken delivery of its first Gowind corvette – Bani Yas – in Lorient, France on October 21. Naval Group announced the delivery on November 9. Bani Yas is the first of Gowind corvettes ordered by UAE in 2019. Both ships are built at the […]
SHAH ALAM: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Dewan Rakyat has published its latest report on the LCS project today. The report covers the period of June and September, this year, is available on the Dewan Rakyat website. The last report covered the period between October 2022 and May, this […]
SHAH ALAM: In the recent post on equipment delivered to the Army, Malaysian Defence stated that the Cendana Auto SF-21X Special Operations Vehicle (SOV) looked slightly different from the one that was displayed at DSA 2022. I was told this by people who attended the show as I did not […]
SHAH ALAM: The town of Lumut and the parliamentary constituency is the location of the RMN main naval base which bears the same name. It used to be known as RMN fleet headquarters until the service decided to split its fleet into two, the Western and Eastern commands. As it […]
SHAH ALAM: In a press conference in Kuching on November 4, MMEA director-general Admiral Maritime Hamid Mohd Amin told the media that the agency is expected to receive two ships from a friendly country, next year. He did not name the country nor the type of ships, but as MMEA […]
SHAH ALAM: Back in July, Malaysian Defence reported that a quotation notice (QN) was published in Eperolehan to send items of the RMAF MPA project team to Italy. On November 6, another QN was published this time to find the MTO to send the personal items of the RMAF FLIT-LCA […]
SHAH ALAM: Admiral Maritime Hamid Mohd Amin, 59, has been appointed as the director-general of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), better known as the Malaysian Coast Guard, today. He replaced Admiral Maritime Mohd Zubil Mat Som who retired last March. Hamid is the sixth director-general of the MMEA. Hamid […]
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