SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) today has given more details about the multi-purpose mission ship which they are getting from Turkiye. The government on February 11 signed an MOU with Turkish shipbuilder, Desan Shipyard for the MPMS. The MOU was signed between Home Ministry secretary-general Awang Alik […]
SHAH ALAM: The government today signed an MOU with a Turkish shipbuilder towards the procurement of a single multi-purpose mission ship for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA). The agreement was signed between Home Ministry secretary-general Awang Alik and chairman of Desan Shipyard Cenk Ismail Kaptonoglu. The MOU is among […]
SHAH ALAM: Last year there were three tenders for light anti-tank weapons (LAWs). The first one, in January was for 780 units of the Spanish Instalanza C90 LAWs. From the original post: The Defence Ministry has published a request for bids for the supply and delivery of the light anti-tank […]
SHAH ALAM: In September, last year, the Procurement Division of the Defence Ministry published a slew of tenders for the Army. The Army wants more 9mm pistols, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, mortars (complete set), anti-materiel rifles , 9mm ball ammo, and automatic grenade launchers. From the previous post: […]
SHAH ALAM: Even though there were no changes to the Army top two leadership, there were many transfers and promotions across the general officer ranks. The most notable was the post of the Army Western Field Command. Former Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) headquarters Assistant Chief of Staff, Operational Training chief […]
SHAH ALAM: In his new year message recently, Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin said RM12 billion has been allocated for the procurement of assets this year even though the budget document says otherwise. Anyhow among the assets to be procured are 105mm howitzers (Army); surface to surface missiles for KD […]
SHAH ALAM: Back in January 2021, Malaysian Defence wrote about the rise of another vehicle manufacturer – Cendana Auto Sdn Bhd – following the award of contracts to supply various vehicles to the Army. Cendana Auto was to become the third vehicle champion after Deftech and Global Komited Sdn Bhd […]
SHAH ALAM: Last year, there were four tenders issued separately for vehicles for the Malaysian Armed Forces headquarters. The vehicles are thirty-four utility one-tonne trucks; forty-six GS Cargo one-tonne trucks; thirty-four three-tonne GS Cargo trucks and thirty-eight utility vans. Perhaps, they counted these vehicles as part of the Army support […]
SHAH ALAM: AS reported a few days ago, General Nizam Jaafar,59, was appointed as the 23rd Panglima Angkatan Tentera/Chief of Defence Forces today. Nizam who was the Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters Assistant Chief of Staff Personnel Services was also promoted as a four-star general prior to his ascension as the […]
SHAH ALAM: Back in October 2023, PMX when announcing the budget stated that the Army was getting hovercraft fast interceptors, among other things. In July last year, we know that six hovercraft fast interceptors were being sought in a tender. The tender: MEMBEKAL, MENGHANTAR, MENGUJI DAN MENTAULIAH 6 BUAH HOVERCRAFT […]
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