SHAH ALAM: ON August 22, Slovakian company – Konstrukta Defence – announced that its truck mounted EVA M2 6X6 SPH has completed its first shooting tests. It also said the vehicle also successfully completed the first non-shooting tests for vertical grade, trench and climb rate. It is interesting to note […]
SHAH ALAM: 45-year-old fast attack craft – KD Pendekar -pennant number 3513, sunk off Tanjung Penyusop, south-east Johor, this afternoon (August 25) almost four hours after colliding with an underwater object. The thirty-nine crew members of the Handalan-class FAC were rescued by passing a merchant ship. The ship struck the […]
SHAH ALAM: The Defence Ministry has issued a tender for the upgrade of six Hercules C-130 airlifter of the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The tender was published in two newspapers and also on the ministry’s website on August 20. It was not published on the Eperolehan website. The tender notice: […]
SHAH ALAM: As reported previously, KD Laksamana Muhammad Amin – pennant number 136 – has been delivered to the RMN after undertaking an extensive 32-month refit at the Grade One Marine Shipyard Sdn Bhd, Lumut. Grade One Marine finally posted on the handing over today on its Facebook page though […]
SHAH ALAM: The Special Forces Group or GGK displayed two new watercrafts at its anniversary parade held on the grounds of Kem Iskandar in Mersing, Johor, on August 19. The new watercraft – painted green – looked like landing crafts as both have a ramp in front of them. Checks […]
SHAH ALAM: RMN has taken delivery of corvette KD Laksamana Muhammad Amin – pennant number 136 – from Grade One Marine Shipyard Sdn Bhd, some 32 months after she was sent there to undergo an extensive refit. The refit for Muhammad Amin involved her getting a new hull and engines […]
SHAH ALAM: RMAF has issued a couple of quotation notices for the supply of 9mm, blank and live 5.56 ammo and smoke grenades. The ten-day notices will expire on. Meanwhile, the Volunteer Corps Department or better known by its Malay acronym – Rela – has issued a six-day QN for […]
SHAH ALAM: Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, the King has warned military personnel not to be involved in corruption and abuse of power in the procurement of arms. He said the sovereignty and dignity of the country will be compromised if military officers and men are involved in corruption and power […]
SHAH ALAM: Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC) announced today that its 51 per cent-owned joint venture was awarded the RM378 million in-service support and performance-based contract for RMAF’s EC725 helicopters. BHIC is the subsidiary of Boustead Holdings Bhd. The heavy engineering firm said the JV company, BHIC AeroService Sdn […]
SHAH ALAM: Deputy Defence Minister Adly Zahari today officiated the completion ceremony for two Nigerian Navy 38-meter patrol boats built by a local company KN Aluminium & Engineering Sdn Bhd together with Northern Shipyard Sdn Bhd at Langkawi island in Kedah. The pennant numbers for the two boats are P197 […]
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