Defence Contract

New Fire Tenders for The Army

SHAH ALAM: The Army is getting eight new fire tenders for its fire service which are operated by soldiers attached to the Kor Perkhidmatan DiRaja (KPD). The fire service was set up in 1988 to act as the fire and rescue service at Army units – mostly at divisional headquarters […]

Malaysian Defence

Its Harris

SHAH ALAM: Back in January 2022, Malaysian Defence posted that the Defence Ministry was seeking a company to ship from overseas, some 1,000 units of the VHF section radios for the Army. The MTO tender confirmed what sources said that Sapura Thales Electronics – the incumbent supplier of tactical radio […]

Defence Contract

Imported VHF Section Radios

SHAH ALAM: Imported VHF Section radios. Back in LIMA 2019, Sapura Thales Electronic Sdn Bhd (STE) launched a new military VHF radio, the TRC 5200. The company said the new generation section VHF radio, was fully designed and developed in Malaysia by STE and will be available in the market […]

Defence Contract

Coming Home, UpDated

SHAH ALAM: Coming home. Back in September, 2020, I wrote about some tenders for munitions/explosives being sought by the Army. The items being sought were 120mm rifled mortar rounds, bangalore torpedoes and plastic explosives. What I did not know was that the tender for the 120mm mortar rounds was subsequently […]

Defence Contract

More Whoop As.. Stuff, Part…

SHAH ALAM: More whoop a.. stuff, Part… It appears that the Army will be getting an undisclosed number of portable rocket launchers from Serbia and rocket propelled grenades from Romania. This was revealed when the Defence Ministry issued two tenders for multi-modal transport operators to transport the launchers from Serbia […]

Malaysian Defence

More Whoop Ass for The Army

SHAH ALAM: More whoop ass for the Army. The Army is getting an undetermined number of 155m high explosive rounds from South Africa, a tender for the multi-modal transporter has revealed. The tender published on 13 April, closes on 5 may. The tender notice said: PELANTIKAN MULTIMODALTRANSPORT OPERATOR (MTO)BAGI PEROLEHAN […]