Malaysia’s top armored vehicle and tank builder, DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies (DEFTECH), is expanding into military aviation.
By: Wendell Minnick (www.defensenews.com)
Malaysia’s top armored vehicle and tank builder, DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies (DEFTECH), is expanding into military aviation.
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By: BERNAMA (www.bernama.com.my)
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has proposed that the government raised the capacity of the Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) by equipping them with sophisticated technology for search and rescue (SAR) operations in future. By: Andrew Chuter (www.defensenews.com)
Saab has confirmed it has submitted proposals to the Malaysian government for the lease of Gripen fighters but said it wasn’t responding to a formal request for information. By: Dzirhan Mahadzhir (www.shepardmedia.com)
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. By: Andrew White (www.shepardmedia.com)
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: Joyce de Thouars (www.shepardmedia.com)
Japan’s removal of its arms export ban could offer up opportunities for defence sales to Southeast Asian countries, government officials have divulged. The news follows a decision on 1 April by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to approve a plan to ease the restrictions on arms exports. Penang Barisan Nasional (BN) Saturday proposed to the federal government to upgrade the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base here and not to relocate it to make way for commercial development project.
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: 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: Alert 5 (alert5.com)
The radar employed by RTAF is the Northrop Grumman AN/FPS-130X long-range radar, a calculation of their coverage is done using a range of 200nm (although it can detect up to 250mn). From the graphic below, we can see that the radars in Songkhla and Phuket were within range of detecting MH370. In fact, coverage from both radars overlaps each other at the point where MH370 was last seen by Malaysian radar. (Alert 5) 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: Bagus BT Saragih (The Jakarta Post)
In a development that could make the mystery surrounding the missing Malaysia Airlines plane more puzzling, the Indonesian Air Force has revealed that its radar in Sumatra, which is closest to Penang on the Malaysian Peninsula, did not detect any aircraft in the Malacca Strait area under its coverage, around the time Flight 370 was lost early last Saturday. |
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