Category: Royal-malaysian-air-force

RMAF To Upgrade Radar Technology

27/5/2014

RMAF wanted its obsolete radar to be replaced in light of MH 370 tragedy. (Photo: Malaysian Flying Herald)

By: Bernama (www.bernama.com.my)

The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has to expedite upgrading the national defence radar system as some of the radars are more than 15 years old.

RMAF chief General Tan Sri Rodzali Daud said the matter had been discussed with the government.

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Malaysia’s Armed Forces

21/5/2014

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Recent events has shown that the lack of long range MPA has seriously undermine Malaysia's effort to effectively patrol its vast maritime boundaries. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

By: Gordon Arthur (http://www.asianmilitaryreview.com)

Malaysia’s proposed 2014 core defence budget has increased by six percent to $5.1 billion. However, just $868 million of this will go towards new equipment, despite current security threats. For example, China’s state news agency, Xinhua, reported in January 2014 that a three-ship People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) task force had patrolled James Shoal, 43 nautical miles (80 kilometres) from Sarawak, one of two Malaysian states on Borneo. Xinhua reported sailors aboard the amphibious warfare ship and two destroyers that comprised the task force “swore an oath of determination to safeguard the country’s sovereignty and maritime interests”. China regards James Shoal in the South China Sea as its southernmost territory, a claim vigorously contested by Malaysia. In March 2013, Malaysia protested the incursion of four Chinese ships in the same location.

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SUATU MASA DAHULU - 1969 -1970

7/5/2014

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Foto: Flight Global 1969

Foto: Flight Global 1970

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Dua pesawat TUDM pulang

1/5/2014

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Pesawat C-130H Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia yang menyertai operasi mencari pesawat penerbangan MH370, telah selamat pulang ke tanahair berikutan penggantungan operasi carian udara. (Foto: Wikimedia Commons)

Oleh: Bernama (www.bernama.com.my)

Dua pesawat C-130 Hercules Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) dijadual pulang ke Malaysia pada Selasa malam selepas pencarian udara bagi mencari pesawat Malaysia Airlines digantung berikutan pengumuman pencarian di kawasan dasar laut dijalankan secara intensif.

Dua pesawat itu akan berlepas pada 9 malam manakala sebuah lagi pesawat TUDM C-130 buat sementara waktu ini kekal di sini sehingga dimaklumkan kelak, kata Ketua Skuadron ke-20 TUDM Mejar Muhammad Jafri Suboh ketika ditemui di pangkalan Pearce, Tentera Udara Diraja Australia (RAAF) di Bullsbrook di sini.

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Malaysian MBT Builder Wants To Build Aircraft

21/4/2014

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UH-1Y and AH-1Z during an operation in Afghanistan. Deftech is pitching both UH-1Y and AH-1Z to the Malaysian Army. (Photo: USMC)

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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Air Force needs sophisticated aircraft for SAR ops, says RMAF chief

21/4/2014

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P-8 Poseidon may be one of the potential candidates for RMAF's future MPA. (Photo: Boeing)

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.

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Saab Offers Info on Gripen Lease to Malaysia

20/4/2014

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If selected, the RMAF will most likely opted for two seater version of the Gripen. Saab however, only offers Gripen C/D version rather than the latest Gripen NG.

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.

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Penang BN Proposes For Butterworth RMAF Base To Be Upgraded, Not Relocated

8/4/2014

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Butterworth airbase during 1970s. (Photo: RMAF)

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.

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BHIC to build first littoral combat ship in 2015

7/4/2014

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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.

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BHIC AeroServices wins RM220m service contract

24/3/2014

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RMAF EC725s are equipped for combat search and rescue mission (CSAR). (Photo: Hafizuddin Sulaiman/ Malaysian Flying Herald)

By: The Sun Daily (www.thesundaily.my)

Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd's subsidiary BHIC AeroServices Sdn Bhd has been awarded an in-service support contract for the maintenance and supply of spare parts for the Royal Malaysian Air Force EC725 helicopter at RM220 million for a three year period.

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Missing MH370: Malaysian air defence comes under scrutiny

24/3/2014

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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.

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THREE FIGHTER JETS MAKERS TO SUBMIT LEASING BIDS

18/3/2014

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Boeing F/A-18F during a strike training mission. (Photo: US Navy)

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.

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The RMAF radar that last saw #MH370

17/3/2014

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Selex Sistemi RAT-31DL long range radar employed by NATO. Malaysia is believed to employ the same radar watching its northern peninsular airspace corridor. (Photo: NSPA)

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.

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Malaysian plane saga highlights air defense gaps

16/3/2014

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Investigators are baffled on how a Boeing 777 which is devoid of any stealth qualities can escape sophisticated military radar detection. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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.

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Missing MH370: 5 theories on what could have happened to MH370

10/3/2014

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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.

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RMAF To Upgrade Radar Technology

Malaysia’s Armed Forces

SUATU MASA DAHULU - 1969 -1970

Dua pesawat TUDM pulang

Malaysian MBT Builder Wants To Build Aircraft

Air Force needs sophisticated aircraft for SAR ops, says RMAF chief

Saab Offers Info on Gripen Lease to Malaysia

Penang BN Proposes For Butterworth RMAF Base To Be Upgraded, Not Relocated

BHIC to build first littoral combat ship in 2015

BHIC AeroServices wins RM220m service contract

Missing MH370: Malaysian air defence comes under scrutiny

THREE FIGHTER JETS MAKERS TO SUBMIT LEASING BIDS

The RMAF radar that last saw #MH370

Malaysian plane saga highlights air defense gaps

Missing MH370: 5 theories on what could have happened to MH370

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