The Brahmos missile Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Defence noticed the news story which was published by the Associated Press of Pakistan on Saturday BrahMos cruise missiles to be exported to a “friendly” country NEW DELHI, May 19 (APP): The first contract for the commercial export of jointly developed Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise […]
Kuala Lumpur: I was watching the Discovery Channel tonight and found an interesting documentary entitled International Submarine Rescue AS-28. The documentray chronicled the rescue of the AS-28, a Russian mini-sub in the waters off Kamchatka. A Royal Navy remotely operated vehicle – the Scorpio – cut the Russian sub free. […]
It seems that Cobra Gold 07 is going through despite the southern Thai troubles. Malaysia is not involved, of course, apart from observers I believe. The Malaysian Govt had in early 80s had decided not to be involved in the exercise which was thought up by the Thais and US. […]
The news story follows, it is the fourth crash of the Mk208 and the first to be non-fatal. Based on the little information, it was most probably an engine failure. For the other three Malaysian Defence could only make educated guesses as RMAF have never released the investigation report. A […]
Johor Bahru MP Datuk Shahrir chaired the Public Accounting Committee which conduct a relatively mild investigations into Government projects and funding. Apart from its lack of power, the committee can only look into a project/funding after the money is gone. With a lot of unproven allegations -mostly corruption – have […]
To be honest I was flabbergasted. I was searching for the most search word for Malaysia on the net and the answer was Utusan Malaysia. It even topped the most searched word for March. Anyhow, Utusan Malaysia (its a Malay-language paper) seems to be the only one interested to write […]
Since I have commented on the subject before, I do not wish to make further comments on the project apart from confirming that I am willing to bet RM50 (I am just a poor blogger) that the first frigate from the project will be inducted in the Royal Malaysian Navy […]
PETALING JAYA: Its offcial. The official English translation of Panglima Angkatan Tentera (Armed Forces Chief) is Chief of Defence Force. Yes, its Chief of Defence Force (www.mod.gov.my) and not even Chief of Defence Forces as Bernama has used since the last three years. . See my earlier posts for context. […]
The purchase of the Airbus A319 Corporate Jet by Penerbangan Malaysia for use the by government, bring yet another dimension to the long running requirement for the RMAF for the purchase of strategic transporters and airborne refuelers. In my earlier blog for AWACs I recommended the purchase of a dozen […]
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