SHAH ALAM: Chief of Defence Forces General Nizam Jaffar has announced that the Malaysian contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) take delivery of the new High Mobility Light Tactical Vehicle (HMLTV) at the earliest, the middle of next year. He said the number of HMLTV to […]
SHAH ALAM: In the comments section, I mentioned that there is a PC-7 Mk 1 gate guard outside the Subang airbase entrance from Jalan Montfort and the Guthrie Corridor Expressway. It is not a gate guard per se but a monument really as it is located around 500 meters from […]
SHAH ALAM: The Procurement Division of the Defence Ministry has issued an open tender for the supply of spare parts and Arrius A1 engine maintenance for a period of four years specifically for the RMN’s AS555 SN Fennec helicopters. The tender for the contract was published on April 3 and […]
SHAH ALAM: In the previous article on the Caracal CAR816 assault rifles, I wrote that there were no plans to replace the M4A1 Carbine as the standard MAF assault rifle. It is simply too expensive, I was told. Despite this I have been told that there are plans in the […]
SHAH ALAM; The Home Ministry has reissued a tender for the supply of batons and handcuffs for use of its various agencies on March 28. The tender was originally published in September, last year but was cancelled as usual with no explanation. Check on the latest tender revealed that the […]
SHAH ALAM: The Finance Ministry has issued the Letter of Award of RM20,412,225.00 to Riqhas TNR Sdn Bhd for the supply and delivery of coloured smoke and tear grenades for the Royal Malaysian Police or PDRM. The publication of the LOA was on March 27. The tender for the grenades […]
SHAH ALAM: Following the first report on the tender to develop a new RMAF museum at Sendayan airbase, the service has given more details about it. The details were published on Free Malaysia Today website on March 27. The report stated that: “The new RMAF Museum is located opposite the […]
SHAH ALAM: Mal-Tel Technology Sdn Bhd, a company based in Cheras, Selangor, has been awarded the LOA of RM4,501,096.00 to supply and deliver body-worn cameras (BWC) and the related accessories for the MMEA. The LOA result was published on the Finance Ministry tender page on March 6. As usual it […]
SHAH ALAM: Private Muhammad Muqriz Aseri,21, was buried with full military honours at the Al-Islamiah Mosque Cemetery, Kampung Lindungan, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, on March 25. He died in the early hours of March 24 after at the Miri Hospital, after a bullying incident in his barracks. Reports stated that incident […]
SHAH ALAM: Three new maritime surveillance systems (Swasla) will be installed in Sarawak, Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) director-general Admiral Rosli Abdullah said on Tuesday in Kuching. A Sarawak Public Communications Unit release quoted Rosli Abdullah as saying that three Swasla radars will be installed on Canada Hill in Miri, […]
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