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Malaysian Defence

Get The Helos Fast

SHAH ALAM: Pak Lah said a few days ago that the tender for projects that was approved in Ninth Malaysian Plan should be implemented fast. Although the details of defence projects in the 9MP were not made public (the amount given is about RM17 billion) it was expected some money […]

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Malaysian Defence

Still Missing Part II

The search continues for the missing pilot and the Hawk 208 aircraft which crashed off Kuala Rompin two week ago. Apart from an oil slick and a part of the rudder nothing has been recovered from the sea. The search for the pilot and plane continues at sea. Ironically there […]

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Malaysian Defence

KD Kedah, finally

* Picture of Pahang taken in a visit to NDSB in 2004. KD Kedah was at sea during the visit SHAH ALAM: KD Kedah, the lead ship in the New Generation Patrol Vessel project, was finally commissioned into the Royal Malaysian Navy on Monday (June, 2006).The commissioning was delayed for […]

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Malaysian Defence

Still Missing

Its been almost a week since a Hawk 208 crashed in the waters off Kuala Rompin. Despite a massive search operations, the plane and its pilot, have yet to be found. So far only the rudder have been found. Every body is still hoping that the pilot Maj Muhammad is […]

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Malaysian Defence

Malaysian Peacekeepers in Timur Leste

Some 250 Malaysian peacekeepers are now deployed in Timur Leste folowing a revolt in the newly independent country. Our soldiers facing machete wielding Timurese and some rebel soldiers armed with SteyrsApparently the ROE meant that unless they imminent danger, they cannot open fire with their Steyr AUG, M4, Minimi, GPMG […]

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Malaysian Defence

Sopmod rifles for Malaysia?

Somebody is placing ads in a local magazine Perajurit on the M4 Sopmod rifles. Sopmod is the acronym for the Special Operations Peculiar Modification rifles meant specifically for US Special Forces Command.Coming fast after the decision to replace the Steyr with the M4/M16A4 combo the ads is particularly annoying as […]

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Malaysia - RMAF

Mk II in a paddy field

SHAH ALAM: A Pilatus PC-7 Mk II turbo=prop trainer made an emergency landing in a paddy field near Alor Setar, Kedah early this morning. Both crew, Lt Kol Mutalib Abdul Wahab, 46, and Mejar Tan Thian Khim, 34, walked away from the crash. As usual not much information were given […]

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Malaysian Defence

Kudos to the Royal Malaysian Air Force

A nice schematic of the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II.Only on a few occasions, one can actually celebrate a contract signing. The occasion was the signing for six Mk IIs at the recent DSA 2006. For once I was smiling. Late last year, I was quite apprehensive that the air force […]

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Malaysian Army

Deja Vu

SHAH ALAM:The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the Deftech AV4 was “Hey, I have seen that armoured car before”. Try as I might I cannot shake the feeling of déjà vu. When I surfed the web, I finally found what I was looking for. It […]

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Malaysian Defence

Indian made flight helmets?

This is the L100 MSA bone dome which the RMAF hope to procure for its Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter squadron. I am a great admirer of India. The country is already a certified nuclear power. Not a country one want to mess with. It also produced cruise missiles and assembled jet […]