SHAH ALAM: MBDA new Marte ER anti ship missile has completed its final firing test last month. The firing took place at an Italian test range in Sardinia. From MBDA: MBDA’s new Marte ER anti-ship missile successfully completed its final test firing at the end of November 2021. Carried out […]
SHAH ALAM: Keeping up with the Joneses…Cougars and K9s. The Australian government today signed an Australian $1 billion (RM3 billion) contract today for the purchase of 30 K9 (AS9 Huntsman) 155mm SPHs and 15 K10 (AS10) ammunition resupply vehicles. T It is the biggest military contract between Australia and South […]
SHAH ALAM: End of an era. It appears that the GGK counter-terrorism unit will be re-equipped with a new submachine gun replacing its venerable HK MP-5s. The MP-5s are used by the GGK’s CT unit as it preferred weapon though in some demonstrations the operators were armed with the Colt […]
SHAH ALAM: New RHIBs for VAT 69. PDRM tier one special forces unit – VAT 69 – is getting four RHIBs imported from Canada. We know that they are getting the RHIBs, courtesy of another quotation notice for a multi-modal operator to ship back the boats, published on Dec. 4. […]
SHAH ALAM: Happy Belated Birthday LCS. Yesterday, marked the seventh birthday of the RMN Littoral Combat Ship. Yes its the seventh birthday of the LCS, as Dec. 3, 2014 was the date of the first steel cutting for the LCS at the premises of IHC Metalix company in Amsterdam, Holland. […]
SHAH ALAM: Funny Feeling. Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has confirmed it participation in the RMAF FLIT/LCA tender which closed last month. The confirmation of the participation of the TAI Hurjet was made by its president Prof Temel Kotil on Nov. 24 to Malaysian media at the opening ceremony of TAI’s […]
SHAH ALAM: Keeping up with the Joneses…as the delivery dates for the MD Helicopters MD-530G light scout attack helicopter remained up in the air, the Philippines is set to take delivery of six TAI T129 ATAK attack helicopters next month. The delivery of the ATAK has been subject to intense […]
SHAH ALAM: More sniper rifles for Paskal. The navy special forces unit – Pasukan Khas Laut (Paskal) is getting ten sniper rifles of different types courtesy of six separate quotation notices published within the last four months or so. As the specifications for the weapons were not made public we […]
SHAH ALAM: As the government mulls over plans to tender or not the 155mm SPH for the Army, one of our Asia-Pacific neighbours has decided to splash US$106 million for an undisclosed number of an Israeli made SPH. The SPH is the Elbit Systems Sigma SPH, an automatic self propelled […]
SHAH ALAM: Indonesia has become the third nation in Asia to operate the the Airbus A400M airlifter – after Malaysia – after it signed a contract for two aircraft today. Indonesia also signed the LOI for another four A400Ms. The order and LOI was announced today on the last day […]
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