SHAH ALAM: Lumut Naval Shipyard (Lunas) down-slip LCS2 – PCU Raja Muda Nala – pennant number 2502 – this on May 8 at its facility at Lumut. The ship is now tied up next to LCS1/Maharaja Lela pennant number 2501 at the Lunas main jetty. The work to downslip LCS […]
SHAH ALAM: The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court has granted former RMN chief and Boustead head Ahmad Ramli Nor a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) from three counts of criminal breach of trust involving the littoral combat ship project, Free Malaysia Today reported today. Judge Suzana Hussin granted the […]
SHAH ALAM: Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin in his speech at Parliament on February 20 also spoke about the LCS. Among the highlights of what he said was that the project was delayed by some one percent due to the late delivery of equipment from the original manufacturer. As the […]
SHAH ALAM: Back in 2018, Malaysian Defence wrote a post with the same title chronicling the delays into the LCS project. Several months later the project when into a complete halt, which only restarted last year. According to the Sixth Supplementary Contract (SSC) signed at LIMA 2023, the down slip […]
SHAH ALAM: The tender for the supply, delivery, integration and commissioned of a new fire control radar optical (FCRO) for KD Jebat (pennant number 29) has been canceled. As usual no explanation was given. The advertisement for the FCRO was published on December 26, 2023, and it closed on February […]
SHAH ALAM: It appears that Lumut Naval Shipyard (Lunas) has installed the integrated mast on the first LCS, PCU Maharaja Lela. The installation of the mast was published yesterday on Lunas Facebook page as Stories, the short video version on the social media platform. It is unclear when the mast […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears ever since it became a fully owned government company, Lumut Naval Shipyard or Lunas has realized it needs to be more transparent of its activities. It is now active on various social media platforms from X to Facebook. The latest Lunas social media posting was the […]
SHAH ALAM: United Arab Emirates has taken delivery of its second Gowind corvette Al Emarat on June 27 at Lorient, France. She is the second Gowind corvette ordered from Naval Group in 2019. She was built in Lorient and launched in May 2022. Her sea trials started in October 2023 […]
SHAH ALAM: Lumut Naval Shipyard (Lunas) has issued an infographic on PCU Maharaja Lela on the company’s social media accounts, about two weeks after she was launched. The infographic showed in detail the top side of Maharaja Lela, which was not available since the launch. The infographic was posted on […]
SHAH ALAM: A day after Malaysian Defence posted on PCU Maharaja Lela, Defence Minister DS Khaled Nordin visited the Lumut naval base and Lumut Naval Shipyard (Lunas) and announced that the LCS project was on track and on schedule. Khaled said that the ship was down-slip on May 23 and […]
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