SHAH ALAM: Former CO of KD Jebat – Captain Mohammed Noorsyarizal Mohammed Nordin – has been officially named as the LMS Batch 2 project leader. His appointment was made public when the Western Fleet Command published a post on September 7. The post: Panglima Armada Barat, Laksamana Madya Dato’ Ts. […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears that the Turkish Navy own yard – Istanbul Naval Shipyard (Insy)- will be the builder of the three LMS Batch 2 corvettes for the Royal Malaysian Navy. When the Letter of Award (LOA) was awarded on June 10, it was not revealed where the ships will […]
SHAH ALAM: The new RMN 15-to-5 plan, the Realignment, it appears, is now official. The launch of the new plan was supposed to take place at DSA 2024, but it was scrubbed. RMN did not say why the launch was scrubbed but I was told that the document was not […]
SHAH ALAM: The Defence Ministry has found that the former HMAS Anzac of the Royal Australian Navy is not suitable for RMN even as an interim vessel. Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin told Parliament today that they were looking at retired or soon to be retired naval vessels to serve […]
SHAH ALAM: As Malaysian Defence reported previously, the plan for the LMS Batch 2 was for eight ships to be built within two RMK with a budget of RM2.5 billion. That plan was tweaked in 2022 – as it was apparent that the government will continue funding the LCS and […]
SHAH ALAM: STM Defence of Turkiye has released technical specifications of the LMS Batch 2 of which three will be built in that country. The Defence Ministry issued the LOA for the three ships to the state-owned company, in Ankara, Turkiye on June 10. The release from STM: STM LMS […]
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