SHAH ALAM: Light attack helos. With the MD530G contract effectively cancelled – its not done yet – what kind of light attack helicopters are available to the Army, if it’s in the market for one of course. The choice is limited of course. Moreover the air wing is already operating […]
SHAH ALAM: Condemned to repeat it. A check on Malaysian Defence’s archives revealed that there are 116 posts regarding the RMN Littoral Combat Ship. It is more than that actually as around 50-odd posts on the LCS had gone missing after the server failure, some three years ago. Long time […]
KUALA LUMPUR: I had refrained from making any comments on the new ceiling price for the new RMN SGPV/LCS/frigate as awarded to Boustead Naval Shipyard announced on Friday. Yes I did mentioned I believed the cost will go higher but thats it. My hesitation is based on the fact that […]
PETALING JAYA: IT appears that Indonesia is set to follow on its second-hand F-16 deal with the procurement of surplus weapons from European countries, if the news story below is correct. We have not made similar moves, not that I heard off, to source second hand arms neither ships, planes […]
PETALING JAYA: With reference to the news article below, it is my contention that Jalan Padang Tembak is walking on air, literally. How else can one explain the plans to spend more than RM15 billion within the next five years for new arms when the annual budget is only RM11 […]
SHAH ALAM: The statement below is self-explainatory. It is the confirmation of the contract for the AV8. As mentioned in the previous postings, the LOA for the AV8 signified the three mandatory Armed Forces projects for the RMK 10. As a reminder the other two projects are the SGPV/LCS and […]
SHAH ALAM: After crunching the numbers and a few words with those in the know, I must concede the billion ringgit price tag for the proposed SGPV/LCS is probably justified, with a few caveats of course. 1) One wonders why the ceiling price for the project was announced when the […]
SHAH ALAM: Its confirmed now, the SGPV, formally the NGPV and known in Mindef now as LCS, is to be the first project under RMK10. Six billion for six ships means a cool billion for a single ship. A fairly steep price for a corvette and as VR pointed out […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Everyone who has Astro and subscribed to the Learning Channel will have seen the Mythbusters. These fellas get paid to have fun busting myths and urban legends. However in Malaysia there is an ongoing myth that the Armed Forces can afford to have a lot things that other […]
You can bet that if next year, they proceed with the MRCA purchase, one smart aleck will start screaming again…sheesh […]
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