SHAH ALAM: UK company SEA has secured a contract extension with Lumut Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (Lunas) to supply its fixed triple configuration Torpedo Launcher System (TLS) for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN). The agreement, the company announced on March 13, will see five Maharaja Lela-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) […]
SHAH ALAM: The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court has granted former RMN chief and Boustead head Ahmad Ramli Nor a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) from three counts of criminal breach of trust involving the littoral combat ship project, Free Malaysia Today reported today. Judge Suzana Hussin granted the […]
SHAH ALAM: Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin in his speech at Parliament on February 20 also spoke about the LCS. Among the highlights of what he said was that the project was delayed by some one percent due to the late delivery of equipment from the original manufacturer. As the […]
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: KD Kasturi – pennant number 25 – was officially delivered to the RMN by Lumut Naval Shipyard (Lunas) on January 14, some three years after she went into a routine refit. It was so long that she went into refit with Boustead Naval Shipyard and came out from […]
SHAH ALAM: Back in 2018, Malaysian Defence wrote a post with the same title chronicling the delays into the LCS project. Several months later the project when into a complete halt, which only restarted last year. According to the Sixth Supplementary Contract (SSC) signed at LIMA 2023, the down slip […]
SHAH ALAM: The tender for the supply, delivery, integration and commissioned of a new fire control radar optical (FCRO) for KD Jebat (pennant number 29) has been canceled. As usual no explanation was given. The advertisement for the FCRO was published on December 26, 2023, and it closed on February […]
SHAH ALAM: Barely three days before the first anniversary of his appointment to the Defence Ministry as the secretary-general, DS Isham Ishak, 54, has been appointed to the same position at the Agriculture and Food Securities Ministry. He is replaced at Jalan Padang Tembak by Lokman Hakim Ali, 51, who […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears ever since it became a fully owned government company, Lumut Naval Shipyard or Lunas has realized it needs to be more transparent of its activities. It is now active on various social media platforms from X to Facebook. The latest Lunas social media posting was the […]
SHAH ALAM: Lumut Naval Shipyard (Lunas) has issued an infographic on PCU Maharaja Lela on the company’s social media accounts, about two weeks after she was launched. The infographic showed in detail the top side of Maharaja Lela, which was not available since the launch. The infographic was posted on […]
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