Brazil Buys 50 Cougars
KUALA LUMPUR: Brazil on Tuesday (Dec 23) signed a defence pact with France which analyst estimates to be around 6 to 8 billion Euros which […]
Month: December 2008
TUDM Ab-Initio Training Programme
KUALA LUMPUR: After years of resisting the move towards the more cost-effective ab-initio and basic flight training on single engine civilian airplanes, TUDM finally has […]
French Buying More EC725s, Edited to add French Ambassador Visit to Mindef
Barety with Mindef Sec-Gen Dato’ Abu Bakar Bin Hj Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR: The French are buying five more EC725 Caracals as part of its 2009-2014 […]
Singapore Defence Industry Got A Boost.
KUALA LUMPUR: While we are still talking about making local defence products, our southern neighbour made an important breakthrough in the international defence market. And […]
Nuri Replacement Saga, Part ????
KUALA LUMPUR: The story from Bernama below is again self-explanatory. The PAC seemed to say that the decision by the government to defer the procurement […]
Dissapointing…
The Jernas on Show during the Merdeka Parade KUALA LUMPUR: In conversations with some people over the last week, it appears that most of arms […]
Gravy Train…
KUALA LUMPUR: The defence money is short; everything has to be pared down, even essential training programmes but the gravy train goes on The story […]
Russian Missile Exports to Malaysia
An inert training R27 missile displayed during RMAF open day last June. An inert Sparrow missile displayed during the same event as above A Kh-59M […]
More Police than the Armed Forces?
KUALA LUMPUR: Based on the story below, within three years, the police will have more personnel than the Armed Forces including the reserves. Though Malaysian […]