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Defence Contract

Defence Procurement Oversight Committee Part II

Two days after Malaysian Defence wrote about the need to set-up the Defence Procurement Oversight Committee for the sake of transparency, MINDEF came out with this press release (courtesy of Bernama). Subs And Fighters Procurement Above Board – Mindef GeneralApril 26, 2007 23:35 PMKUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) — The […]

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Malaysian Defence

Defence Procurement Oversight Committee

Johor Bahru MP Datuk Shahrir chaired the Public Accounting Committee which conduct a relatively mild investigations into Government projects and funding. Apart from its lack of power, the committee can only look into a project/funding after the money is gone. With a lot of unproven allegations -mostly corruption – have […]

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Malaysian Defence

Utusan Malaysia and Malaysian Defence

To be honest I was flabbergasted. I was searching for the most search word for Malaysia on the net and the answer was Utusan Malaysia. It even topped the most searched word for March. Anyhow, Utusan Malaysia (its a Malay-language paper) seems to be the only one interested to write […]

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malaysia

HK416

The story below speaks volume. Every one else apparently chose something esle. Our forces. meanwhile, are following the US military by opting to use the M4 despite the well publicised problems with it. The US military has a good reason. It is willing to wait for a laser gun to […]

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malaysia

Army Media Day 2007

Captions. 1) FN Mag (GPMG)2) Pakistan-made RMPG-73) McMillan 50 calibre rifle (compnay has close-shop)4) FN SAW (the only new gun on display)5) Condor APC (the same vehicle used in Somalia 1991) Three weeks back I attended the 2007 Army Media Day in conjunction of Army Day. There was a shooting […]