MMEA

AW139 Black Boxes Still Not Found

SHAH ALAM: MMEA is still searching for the flight data and voice recorders from the AW139 helicopter which crashed into the waters off Pulau Angsa, Kuala Selangor on March 5. The voice and data recorders are commonly referred to as black boxes by the media. Pictures of the recovered helicopter […]

Defence Contract

High End Military Water Craft For Paskal

SHAH ALAM: The RMN has issued two separate quotation notices for the procurement, delivery and supply of two “high end military water craft” for its special forces unit – Paskal. The first notice was for the Paskal unit based at the Lumut naval base. The notice was published on March […]

Defence Contract

Quotation Notice for HOM Guns

SHAH ALAM: The RMN has issued a seven-day long quotation notice for the purchase of two machine guns to arm the air wing’s AW139 Maritime Operations Helicopter (MOH). The three HOMs are mostly stationed at the Kota Kinabalu air base. The budget for the purchase comes from the RMN Headquarters. […]

Defence Contract

Vektor Machine Guns on FCB

SHAH ALAM: At the acceptance ceremony for the four FIC G2000 Mark II at the Kota Kinabalu naval base on February 3, the headline feature touted was that the boats are fitted with the Escribano Sentinel 2.0 remote weapon station and armed with Canik M2 12.7mm QCB machine gun. Not […]

Defence Contract

Its the Ada Class, Which One?

SHAH ALAM: Its now confirmed, the LMS Batch II will be an Ada class corvette. Though which variant is selected and the equipment fit is currently being determined. Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin in a written reply to a question in Parliament on March 13 stated that the government had […]

Defence Contract

First LCS Down Slip Delayed?

SHAH ALAM: In his testimony to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in January this year, Defence Ministry secretary-general DS Isham Ishak said that the first LCS – PCU Maharaja Lela – is expected to be put into water (down slip) on schedule this May. That said, he said a slight […]

defence Industry

More Details of Damen MPSS

SHAH ALAM: Dutch shipyard builder has unveiled more details and pictures of the multi-purpose support ship (MPSS) which it is co-developing with Portuguese Navy. In the previous report on the MPSS, it was called multi purpose vessel. In the report, I mentioned that I like the vessel as it appears […]

Public Accounts Committee

Not Shocking or Worrying at All

SHAH ALAM: Despite Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Mas Emieyarti Samsudin statement last month that the committee was shocked and worried about the delays into the LCS, it appears that it was much ado about nothing. The PAC report which was made public today revealed that the LCS project had […]