SHAH ALAM: RMAF conducted a simulated crash-landing exercise at a school field here on November 21 using a No 2 Skuadron Black Hawk – M46-01 – helicopter. The RMAF two Black Hawks are colloquially known as the White Hawk as they are painted white. Videos and pictures of the exercise […]
SHAH ALAM: Since its return from Bandung after undergoing the conversion process, the CN-235 MSA M44-05 have been camera shy. While its sister ship – M44-03 – was displayed at LIMA 23, 05 remained at the Kuching airbase, the home of its squadron, the No 1 Skuadron. However, thanks to […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears that Skuadron 601 Scan Eagles UAS are already operating at RMN Stesen LIMA – Pulau Layang-Layang – located in the Gugusan Peninjau Semarang, the Malaysian name for the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The UAS are supporting Eks Angsa 14/23 – the trilateral Malaysian […]
SHAH ALAM: KD Handalan, pennant number 3511 and KD Perkasa, 3512, celebrated their 44th birthday on July 17. Both ships were commissioned on July 17, 1979, a year after they were launched at the Karlskrona Varvet Shipyard in Sweden. Handalan is of course the lead ship of the four-ship class […]
SHAH ALAM: Seven aircraft from the French Air and Space Force landed in Subang this afternoon (June 26) for a two-day stop-over. The aircraft – four Rafale fighter jets, two Multi Role Tanker and Transport and a single A400M airlifter will be based at the Subang airbase. According to a […]
SHAH ALAM: MSA first joint exercise. Four days ago, Malaysian Defence made an educated guess that RMAF CN-235 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) is taking part in its first joint exercise, the RMN Eastern Command organised Operational Sea Training Exercise East (OSTEXEast 1/23). And by luck, I was proven correct. And […]
SHAH ALAM: RMAF CN-235 MSA, it appears, is participating in its first joint exercise, OSTEXEast 1/23, organised by the RMN’s Eastern Command. It must be noted that RMN and RMAF had not officially announced that the MSA is involved in the on-going exercise – likely ending within the next few […]
SHAH ALAM: The Army is sending a company strong of paratroopers to the United Arab Emirates for a three-week long bilateral exercise – Desert Tiger 6/23 – in the Middle East country. The bulk of the paratroopers are from Ninth Royal Malay Regiment (Para) which is part of the 10th […]
SHAH ALAM: Sappers ready to operate truck cranes. It appears that the Rejimen Askar Jurutera Di Raja (RAJD) is prepared to operate the newly delivered Tadano medium truck-mounted cranes. Some 48 sappers from the regiment have completed the training to operate and maintain the truck-mounted cranes used to set up […]
SHAH ALAM: Exercise Elangaroo 2022 – the air to air interaction exercise – between the RMAF and RAAF ends today at the Butterworth airbase. The exercise started on November 7. Release from RAAF on the exercise, published on November 7. Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel and aircraft have deployed […]
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