SHAH ALAM: 2022 National Security Budget. The Defence Ministry is getting RM16.14 billion in the 2022 budget while the Home Ministry was allocated RM17.089 billion. This is the third year running that the Home Ministry got a higher allocation than Defence, following the government decision in 2019 to move the […]
SHAH ALAM: Wow factor aka no help for the needy. Bernama reported PM DS Ismail Sabri Yaakob as saying that the Budget 2022 has wow factors for all sectors. In response to the report, I tweeted Wow, MY getting LCS, LMS Batch II, LCA, MPA and UAV…. I didn’t really […]
SHAH ALAM: The never ending story. Former Defence Minister DS Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has given his statements to the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on the White Elephant, the RMN’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project. He gave the statement to the PAC today (Oct. 25). From The Edge PAC chairman Wong […]
SHAH ALAM: The RAAF deployment of maritime surveillance aircraft to Malaysia – Operation Gateway – was commemorated in a ceremony at the RMAF Butterworth airbase in Penang today. The 40th anniversary of the deployment was supposed to be held on May 21, 2021 but the pandemic got in the way. […]
SHAH ALAM: Eks Paradise 2021. RMAF has embarked on its third major exercise this year with the launch of Eks Paradise 8/2021 at Kuantan airbase yesterday. The exercise will involved most of RMAF aircraft from fighter jets to helicopters as well as units from RMN and the Army. RMAF No. […]
SHAH ALAM: Its now KD Badik. As predicted in a previous post, RMN third LMS, KD Badik (113) was commissioned into service at the Kota Kinabalu naval base today (Oct.22, 2021). The ceremony was conducted by RMN chief Admiral Mohd Reza Sany. From The Borneo Post: KD Badik, the third […]
SHAH ALAM: Now more than ever. A day before Merdeka this year, I posted a story on talk of a SPH tender. And now it appears that I had found out further on the requirements and why the tender has not been published. What I wrote: It appears that the […]
SHAH ALAM: All dressed up. It appears another aircraft in the RMAF inventory – the Leonardo MB339CM – is being put into storage. The case for storing the CMs came about from a tender for materials for the storage of aircraft published on Oct. 15 and closing on Oct. 22. […]
SHAH ALAM: Nexter guns operational. The Army has declared that the Nexter LG1 MKIII 105mm howitzer guns, operated by the 1 Rejimen Artileri Di Raja (1RAD) as fully operational. Army chief Jen Zamrose Mohd Zain made the formal declaration at the Asahan firing range in Gemas, Negri Sembilan on October […]
SHAH ALAM: Np. 6 Squadron at Bersama Gold. It appears that the No. 6 Squadron of the RMAF is the Hawk unit which was sent out a temporary detachment to Kuantan airbase for Bersama Gold 2021. Apart from the No.6 Squadron, the No. 12 Squadron also sent a temporary detachment […]
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