Explanation by the current Defence Minister in Parliament on Task Force 2010:
TASK FORCE 2010 telah ditubuhkan pada Januari 2007 sebagai Agensi Kerajaan Malaysia untuk membantu Kerajaan Thailand dalam usaha membawa keamanan ke Selatan Thailand.
Dalam menjalankan tugas dan tanggungjawabnya, TASK FORCE 2010, telah melaksanakan pelbagai program, aktiviti serta usaha-usaha khusus ke arah memenuhi misi yang dipertanggungjawabkan. Sehingga kini usaha-usaha tersebut telah menampakkan hasil.
Walau bagaimanapun Kerajaan telah membuat keputusan untuk membubarkan TASK FORCE 2010 pada penghujung tahun ini. Peranannya akan diambil alih oleh agensi-agensi Kerajaan yang berkaitan bagi mempastikan kesinambungan usaha-usaha ke arah keamanan di selatan Thailand
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
More exposure on RMAF asset - F18D
This is part of article from Malay Mail;
Source codes, Dzirhan said, are software codes which modify the systems of the aircraft to work with non-standard systems.
"Most aircraft manufacturers and countries do not give out the source codes, but they might be willing in certain cases to modify them to enable the aircraft to accept non-standard systems.
"It simply means we can re-programme or modify the system, which in most cases, are kept standard, including the Russian ones.
"In any event, even if we did have the codes, do we have the expertise to do anything with it?"
Dzirhan pointed out an example that since it was the Russians who conducted integration work on the RMAF Sukhoi Su-30MKM multi-role combat aircraft, this seemed to suggest that we did not get the software codes for the planes or even if we did, we don't have the expertise to do anything with it.
"As a general rule, the United States do not release its source codes to export customers and this is a known fact.
"Obviously, if we did not know this until the last minute, then somebody is not doing their homework before the purchase of the Hornets.
"Even so, why did we not back out of the deal if there were such an issue? In any event, the US does provide 'object codes' which allows the buyer to do limited re-programming on their systems to counter new or unexpected threats."
(Marhalim Abbas, The Malay Mail 01/04/2010)
Source codes, Dzirhan said, are software codes which modify the systems of the aircraft to work with non-standard systems.
"Most aircraft manufacturers and countries do not give out the source codes, but they might be willing in certain cases to modify them to enable the aircraft to accept non-standard systems.
"It simply means we can re-programme or modify the system, which in most cases, are kept standard, including the Russian ones.
"In any event, even if we did have the codes, do we have the expertise to do anything with it?"
Dzirhan pointed out an example that since it was the Russians who conducted integration work on the RMAF Sukhoi Su-30MKM multi-role combat aircraft, this seemed to suggest that we did not get the software codes for the planes or even if we did, we don't have the expertise to do anything with it.
"As a general rule, the United States do not release its source codes to export customers and this is a known fact.
"Obviously, if we did not know this until the last minute, then somebody is not doing their homework before the purchase of the Hornets.
"Even so, why did we not back out of the deal if there were such an issue? In any event, the US does provide 'object codes' which allows the buyer to do limited re-programming on their systems to counter new or unexpected threats."
(Marhalim Abbas, The Malay Mail 01/04/2010)
The Missing Engines of F5E....
BERNAMA said:
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said the RMAF personnel would be charged for stealing while the company director for disposing off stolen properties.
"Investigations revealed that both F-5E jet engines were removed from the Material Udara 1 (Matra 1) godown in Kuala Lumpur as a result of a collaboration between an RMAF personnel with the rank of sergeant and a company director to dispose off both jet engines," he said in a statement Tuesday night.
The sergeant will be charged under Section 380 of the Penal Code to be read with Section 109 of the same code, while the company director, under Section 414 of the code.
The jets engines were found missing in 2007 while being taken for a routine maintenance from the 12th Squadron (Scorpion) in Butterworth to the RMAF godown in Kuala Lumpur.
(The news is from BERNAMA: RMAF Personnel, Company Director To Be Charged Over Missing F-5E Jet Engines)
Saturday, December 26, 2009
One Malaysia and One Defense
During last LIMA, Tun Mahathir suggested that the South Asian countries make an agreement to control their asset of weapons. The weapon purchased by neighbor that seems keeps competing with one another.
My personal opinion, such statement showed that Malaysia is losing in the weapon race. The style of Malaysia only to buy the latest weapon in small quantity as to update their inventory as modern as the develop country. But when economy was hit by crisis, modernization of the military is being slowed down and even it totally stop in one of three services.
Plus the rendering by Defense Minster that our Migs need to stop their operational because the price of spare parts set by local partner was very high that the cost is irrelevant.
Well that’s only one of our strategic assets. Who knows other more?
Maybe the current minister should do the right thing by not modernizing the current asset but go through the policy of current inventory and eliminate these entire epidemic which currently investing our military.
Therefore this effort should be called the policy of "One Defense"
Hey, you do not have the money spent anyway, right?
My personal opinion, such statement showed that Malaysia is losing in the weapon race. The style of Malaysia only to buy the latest weapon in small quantity as to update their inventory as modern as the develop country. But when economy was hit by crisis, modernization of the military is being slowed down and even it totally stop in one of three services.
Plus the rendering by Defense Minster that our Migs need to stop their operational because the price of spare parts set by local partner was very high that the cost is irrelevant.
Well that’s only one of our strategic assets. Who knows other more?
Maybe the current minister should do the right thing by not modernizing the current asset but go through the policy of current inventory and eliminate these entire epidemic which currently investing our military.
Therefore this effort should be called the policy of "One Defense"
Hey, you do not have the money spent anyway, right?
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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