25 May 2006

Malaysia announces USD 210 million worth of Defence Purchases

In the Defence Services Asia exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia annouced the award of five defence contracts worth US$210 million. These include communications equipment, the Diving Control and Platform Simulator for the Scorpene submarines, two TRM-L 3D survelliance and target acquisition radars, 155mm ammunition for the G5 artillery and 108 3-tonne cargo trucks.

Source: Janes Defence Weekly. 3rd May 2006

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yes..go malayisa.. however is worth it?

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Well, there are three more announcements from that exhibition.

One announcement are regarding the purchase and deployment of more armaments.

Two are regarding requirements put out for more equipment including 8 x 8 armoured personnel carriers, and self-propelled mortars.

Quite a bit of stuff coming. And these will cost a lot more.

Is it worth it? I don't know.