Aria Manned Airship KUALA LUMPUR: Its looking obvious that although Malaysian big arms purchases have grind to a halt, our neighbours seemed to continue with their buying spree. The latest is the Royal Thai Army contract with Aria International Inc of the US to provide in-country surveillance and communications solutions […]
KUALA LUMPUR: According to an unconfirmed new report, the Thais are buying Mi-17s! Perhaps they are also feeling the pinch of the economic crisis… Thailand buys Russian Mi-17 – A U-turn in the defence policy. The Thai government has decided to buy several transport helicopters from Russia. This deal would […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As promised I am posting the videos I took during Singapore Air Show last week. I wanted to update the site from Singapore but due technical gremlins, I was unable to do so. The flight line video. The B1B and the Airbus A380 were the show stoppers, without […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The Thais (see the story below) has announced its attention to buy 12 Saab Gripens for US$1 billion earlier this week. If the deal goes through (depending on Thai politics with an election coming in December and whether or not the US would allow the deal to go […]
Malaysian Defence
