General Datuk Raja Mohamed Affandi Bin Raja Mohamed Noor, Chief of the Malaysian Army, spoke to Shephard about how the service is overcoming the difficulties of the current fiscal environment and is planning for the future.
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General Datuk Raja Mohamed Affandi Bin Raja Mohamed Noor, Chief of the Malaysian Army, spoke to Shephard about how the service is overcoming the difficulties of the current fiscal environment and is planning for the future.
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Malaysia’s minister of defence, Dato Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, has highlighted cyber security as a ‘crucial’ and ‘unconventional threat’ that must be tackled. Speaking ahead of the Defence Services Asia exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Hussein said: ‘The issue of national security has never been more crucial than it is today, when threats loom about more than ever before, in all kinds of forms. By: Jonathan Tringham (www.shepardmedia.com)
Anticipation of a potential Malaysian attack helicopter tender remains high, with candidate platforms from Bell, Airbus Helicopters and Boeing to be showcased at the Defence Services Asia expo in Kuala Lumpur. By: Bernama (www.bernama.com.my)
The Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) will increase its presence, surveillance and security in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZone) to thwart kidnapping attempts in Pulau Singamata, Semporna, Sabah. By: The Star (www.star.com.my)
Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC) expects to build the first littoral combat ship (LCS) early next year, under a RM9bil contract awarded to its associate company. This, coupled with the group’s growing maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business, will help the company improve its financial performance in the current financial year ending Dec 31, 2014. “We are confident of doing much better this year. BHIC’s order book for shipbuilding and MRO for this year is more than RM500mil,” managing director Tan Sri Ahmad Ramli Mohd Nor told reporters after the company’s AGM yesterday. By: Shahanaaz Habib (www.thestar.com.my)
WAS the Malaysian air force sleeping on the job? How could an unidentified aircraft fly through Malaysian air space without the air force sitting up and being on high alert? Why were no jets scrambled? How secure is our air space? Those are some of the questions many have been asking since Flight MH370 went missing. By: John Gilbert (themalaysianreserve.com)
Three military aircraft makers are ready to submit their proposals to Malaysia for its decision to lease new multi-role combat jets to replace the ageing MiG 29s owned by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). BAE Systems plc, Boeing Co and Saab AB are said to be part of a shortlist of five companies that have been identified by the government to be possible candidates for the RMAF Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) programme. By: Alert 5 (alert5.com)
The last radar contact of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was at 0215hrs local time, the aircraft was flying at 29500ft and was 200nm northwest of Penang island. The radar under Malaysia’s air defense umbrella that could see the Boeing 777 was a SELEX RAT-31 DL long range radar that sits on top of Penang Hill, 800m above sea level. By: Peter Apps & Frank Jack Daniel (www.reuters.com)
Whatever truly happened to missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, its apparently unchallenged wanderings through Asian skies point to major gaps in regional - and perhaps wider - air defenses. More than a decade after al Qaeda hijackers turned airliners into weapons on September 11, 2001, a large commercial aircraft completely devoid of stealth features appeared to vanish with relative ease. By: Ong Hwee Hwee (www.nst.com.my)
1. Act of terrorism There was speculation that MH370 might have been attacked by terrorists after the Malaysian authorities said on Sunday they were investigating two passengers who were using stolen passports. But officials and experts was quick to point out that there was no proof of foul play so far and there could be other explanations for the use of false identity documents. The two passengers bought their tickets through China Southern Airlines, which was code-sharing the flight with Malaysia Airlines. They were using the documents of an Italian and an Austrian who apparently had their passports stolen in Thailand during the past two years, and had made police reports about the theft. By: Carl Thayer (www.thediplomat.com)
For the past two years China has dispatched a flotilla of People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warships to the farthest reaches of the South China Sea to assert Beijing’s claim to “indisputable sovereignty” over the waters and features lying within its nine-dashed line. Beijing’s ambitious claim covers an estimated eighty percent of the South China Sea. On each occasion PLAN warships sailed to James Shoal, or Beting Serupai in Malay, eighty kilometers off the coast of East Malaysia. According to Bill Hayton, who is completing a book on the South China Sea, China’s claim is based on a double historical error. By: Oscar Nkala (www.defensenews.com)
South Africa’s Denel Aerostructures (DAe) and Malaysian company Strand Aerospace Malaysia have signed a deal that initiates an indirect offsets program South Africa is offering in return for the Malaysian Army’s 3.5 billion Malaysian ringgit (US $1.1 billion) order of Denel Land Systems turrets for its eight-wheel-drive armored infantry fighting vehicles. By Stuart Grudgings (http://uk.reuters.com)
(Reuters) - The submerged reef would be easy to miss, under turquoise seas about 80 km (50 miles) off Malaysia's Borneo island state of Sarawak. But two Chinese naval exercises in less than a year around the James Shoal have shocked Malaysia and led to a significant shift in its approach to China's claims to the disputed South China Sea, senior diplomats told Reuters. The reef lies outside Malaysia's territorial waters but inside its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. By: The Star (www.thestar.com.my)
The fleet of Nuri helicopters and Hercules transport aircraft of the RMAF will undergo service-life extension and upgrade work as usual, says Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He denied claims from a news report that the upgrade work of the country’s air defence fleet would be deferred as part of the Government’s austerity measures. Oleh MOHD. HAZLI HASSAN
Usaha awal untuk mengekang ancaman tahap rendah memerlukan pentadbiran Kawasan Khas Keselamatan Pantai Timur Sabah (ESSCOMM) diperluaskan ke Sarawak bagi membolehkan ancaman itu dihalang dengan tuntas dan pantas. |
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