Kementerian Pertahanan

MAF Medical Team Flies To Turkiye

SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian Armed Forces have sent a 106-strong field medical contingent to Turkiye for the earthquake disaster response. Designated Op Starlight – the medical contingent is expected to conduct operations for at least sixty team. The medical team together with three field hospitals and their associated equipment took […]

Malaysian Defence

Mahawangsa Home

SHAH ALAM: KD Mahawangsa – 1504 – has returned to its home port, the Lumut naval base, after spending 72 days at sea for a resupply mission for the Malaysian contingent in Lebanon. The ship left Lumut on November 30 and arrived at Beirut, Lebanon on January 2. As it […]

Exercise

Paras To UAE For Joint Exercise

SHAH ALAM: The Army is sending a company strong of paratroopers to the United Arab Emirates for a three-week long bilateral exercise – Desert Tiger 6/23 – in the Middle East country. The bulk of the paratroopers are from Ninth Royal Malay Regiment (Para) which is part of the 10th […]

Asean and Malaysia

Tok Mat Visits Brunei

SHAH ALAM: Defence Minister DSU Mohamad Hasan visited Brunei on February 7, his first foreign visit since taking over the ministry in early December. Among others, he and his delegation had an audience with the Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah at Istana Nurul Iman, Bandar Seri Begawan. Mohamad also personally invited […]

Defence Contract

Beretta SMGs Out in The Wild

SHAH ALAM: Beretta SMGs out in the wild. Back in June, last year, Malaysian Defence posted about the Army putting back into service a Beretta firearm after a break of some 50 years. In the past it was the AR-70 assault rifle but this time around, it’s the Beretta PMX […]

Kementerian Pertahanan

Shadow Defence Minister

SHAH ALAM: Tanah Merah MP Datuk Seri Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz has been named as the shadow Defence Minister by Perikatan Nasional (PN) yesterday. Ikmal was the deputy defence minister in both the Muhyiddin Yassin and Ismail Sabri governments. The Bersatu party man served as deputies to both Ismail and […]

Malaysian Defence

New Army Chief Next Month

SHAH ALAM: The Army – Tentera Darat – will have a new chief next month. Army chief General TS Zamrose Mohd Zain today announced that he will be handing over the post to his successor this March 21. He was speaking at his farewell parade at Kem Iskandar in Mersing, […]

commentary

Another Helicopter Tender Part 2

SHAH ALAM: In an earlier posting entitled Another Helicopter Tender, Malaysian Defence wrote about a tender for four helicopters for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency – Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritime Malaysia (MMEA/APMM). The tender was published in June last year and was supposed to close in July but it was later […]