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KD Tunku Abdul Rahman, its official

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 […]

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Malaysia -RMN

PV fiasco and my mistake

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 […]

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Malaysia -RMN

Frigates, Oh, Frigates

SHAH ALAM:It is now confirmed, RMN is getting two more frigates to supplement the KD Jebat and KD Lekiu. The new frigates is will be a derivative of Jebat and Lekiu, but with a different sort of missiles and combat systems. Probably a new gun too, most likely the Oto […]