SHAH ALAM: PMX DS Anwar Ibrahim presented the 12 RMK Mid-year team review at the Parliament yesterday. Among others he announced that the government is committed to spending at least RM90 billion a year from 2023 until 2025 under 12MP. He also said that the government will fully spend the […]
SHAH ALAM: Rehulling or replacing the Indera Saktis. Since the last two decades, the RMN has publicly announced that it wants to replace the two Indera Sakti multi purpose command ships (MPSS) with the more advanced multi-role support ships (MRSS). And despite claims of the need to replace this 1980s […]
SHAH ALAM: After a break of some 50 years, the Army is putting back a Beretta firearm into service. In the past it was the AR-70 but this time around, its the Beretta PMX 9X19 sub machinegun. Army chief Jen Zamrose Mohd Zain took delivery of 11 PMX sub-machine guns […]
SHAH ALAM: 2020 Budget, Defence and Internal Security Sub-Sectors. The Defence Ministry has been allocated RM15.6 billion in the 2020 budget, with the Home Ministry getting RM16.9 billion. The allocation for security sector is RM32.5 billion from a total expenditure of RM297 billion. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng when announcing […]
SHAH ALAM: Kota Raja MP and Amanah President Mohamad Sabu or Mat Sabu, 64, has been named as the Defence Minister by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today. Dr Mahathir also named Pagoh MP and Warisan President TS Muhyiddin Yassin, 70, as Home Affairs Minister. Bagan MP and DAP […]
SHAH ALAM: India has offered to buy RMAF Mig-29 Fulcrums in exchange to supply Malaysia with spares for the Sukhoi Su-30MKM fleet. Prime Minister DS Najib Razak said the offer was part of the defence cooperation agreement signed with India during his state visit. India according to him, will return […]
SHAH ALAM: AS we were busy with DSA 2016, a report came out during the week stating that the Philippines is getting a manned MPA palletised ISR kit from the US. The ISR kit is one of the four separate projects funded by the Pentagon’s Maritime Security Initiative (MSI) this […]
SHAH ALAM: I know I have been writing about this several times in the past but it’s look like the crunch is on us. I have written previously that Malaysia will only take part in operations in Yemen as part of a UN peace keeping force. However it’s looking likely […]
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KUALA LUMPUR: The story below is self-explainatory. While the Defence Minister is optimistic that the first Malaysian A400M will be delivered in 2015 and the price will remained around RM600 million plus, the Airbus rep at Lima was less specific. He said ever A400M completes first test flight Friday, December […]
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