KUALA LUMPUR: I was looking at the Tentera Laut Di Raja Malaysia website today and by chance clicked on the TLDM Armada link. I was surprised to find that the Kedah-class PVs. KD Kedah and KD Pahang, not listed in the armada’s list. Since the link was updated on Aug […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansur, DPM Najib Tun Razak officially launched KD Tunku Abdul Rahman in Cherbourg France, yesterday. Pix courtesy of RMN The boat will now undergo a commissioning period of at least two years before returning home. It is hope that this time around, TAR would beat […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The ACA have charged the ikan bilis over the abuses highlighted by the Auditor-General Report. See the story below as reported by Berita Harian reporters and translanted into NST. They have not said a word publicly on Mindef abuses. With the Scorpene launch today, I believed no one […]
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 […]
KUALA LUMPUR: TO be fair to the army and the armed forces, I must add that the lack of good leadership seemed to pervade the whole society. Malaysia is now ruled generally by a bunch of leaders who got to the top “by who they know and not what they […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s top soldier and one of his generals seemed to have a different opinion on the toughness of the current batch of recruits joining the force (see bernama story below). But in the next breath, Tan Sri Muhammad Ismail quickly corrected himself, stating it could be that […]
KUALA LUMPUR: As expected AgustaWestland AW101 is the clear winner for Malaysian Defence poll for the favourite helicopter to replace the Nuri. The AW101 (formerly EH101) led the hustings from the start when Malaysian Defence was hosted at blogspot and when it went Dot Com, the chosen helicopter for the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The investigation into the Nuri crash, without saying out loud, basically stated that the crash was due to the pilots mistakes. Although, they were kind enough not to say it out loud that it was CFT, from what was reported it is clear that the board believes that […]
KUALA LUMPUR: In my earlier post on the PV fiasco, Malaysian Defence mistakenly reported that the sixth ship of Kedah class will be in service by 2010. After reading the Auditor General report again, Malaysian Defence realised that there was a chance that the whole project could collapsed if more […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The top and bottom pictures are those of the Al Khalid MBT from Pakistan. The pictures was taken by Malaysian Defence in November last year during the IDEAS exhibition in Karachi. The three other pictures are the PT91 MBTs of Kor Armor DiRaja which made its debut during […]
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