I don't get why the Navy keep using these small boats to do offshore patrols.

Remember the CB90 that broke down on the way to Layang-Layang a few years ago?

liferaft pun better equipped in that sense... at least got radar reflector, handheld gmdss radios, epirb + sart, emergency ration + drinking water. heheh

MH128: why did it take so long for police to storm the plane?



The 337 passengers on the Malaysian Airlines MH128 flight that had to turn back to Melbourne due to a disruptive passenger last night was forced to wait in seats for more than hour while the plane was parked in a holding bay.

They were there for 86 minutes due to Australian police bungling.

Australia Police did not storm the plane for more than an hour, during which time some passengers still believed a live bomb was on board.

It is understood the delay was partly caused by the failure of an on-call officer to respond to an emergency message.

Officers responding to the crisis were further held up, after being unable to locate firearms and body armour, the source said.

A police source said the responding officers had been poorly briefed and thought for up to an hour that the man may have been carrying an explosive device.

It is also understood they had not been told where the man was being restrained when they stormed the plane almost 1½ hours after it landed.

However, the Australian Police Chief said there was no indication the delay was unnecessary or as the result of any failure on behalf of police.

The person who caused this disruption and claimed he had a bomb is a 25-year-old Sri Lankan national, in Australia on a student visa.

He is a mental patient and was just released yesterday from a psychological facility and bought his plane ticket hours later.

RMAF areas of weaknesses 2017 - Going downhill from here?

Anybody in RMN can tell how well prepared/trained our navy is in fire fighting? On our commercial vessels, we do fire drills at least once a month if not more. This not first time fire on RMN ships so seems this is an issue.

Does not really answer the query. Asking more on the practice/routine/training the navy does periodically to ensure they are well prepared for this, especially as it should be lesson learned from previous experience. In your reply above, it's like saying firearms training is compulsory for soldiers and have to pass, but if they don't do any shooting practice after they were commissioned it'll be useless as well. Noted that the bomba was navy's but was asking about the crew itself.

Why rmn ships keep catching fire?

that's true... hope they put it to good use...

milspec with standardized parts not hard to come by... also they got it free/cheap..

pinoys only have got small arms factory... but even ammo hardly made locally
jgn.. this kind of warfare very messy... leave it to the pinoys.. i have faith in them 

good these days can celebrate in mess hall.. even with booze 

your birthday? many happy returns.

Familiar looking flag there

Hey bunny, seems to me SG Air Force should spend more time on naval strike practice rather than defeating conventional armour column, ya think?
Put bricks
voila, "ceramic" armour

Is there a link about he Nuri photos.

Thanks.

Can post the photos here, fb search engine is bad.

Military radar equipment worth millions missing from Malaysian port



JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A consignment of high-tech military radar equipment worth millions of ringgit has gone missing from the Port of Tanjung Pelepas.

Agencies including the Customs Department and the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) are investigating the disappearance.

Nusajaya OCPD Asst Comm Nor Hashim Mohamad confirmed that a police report on the matter was received.

Meanwhile, Customs Department assistant director-general (enforcement) Datuk Paddy Abd Halim said an internal investigation was being carried out as well.

Sources said Customs officials detained the radar systems shortly after the consignment arrived from Australia last month.

The items, in one container, were supposed to be shipped to the Netherlands via Johor but did not have the necessary permits, which led to the unexpected detention.
All military equipment being shipped out of, or in transit at any Malaysian port, requires a special permit from Miti.

No such permit or other supporting documents were produced when requested by port and Customs officials, a source said.

During a recent audit check, it was discovered that the classified material could not be located at the port and a police report was then lodged.

The authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the consignment could have been loaded onto another vessel and shipped off to the Netherlands discreetly to avoid further problems.

The sources added that it was not easy for the equipment to be removed by ground transport because of strict checks at the entry and exit points of the port.

Customs has set up a special team to probe the matter internally and determine if standard operating procedures were followed.

The sources said that such sensitive equipment requires a permit under the Strategic Trade Act 2010.

The penalties are heavy as fines can be as high as RM10,000,000 (S$3,214,525), while those convicted can also face the death penalty, sources added.

The permits were issued from Miti's strategic trade secretariat in Kuala Lumpur, the sources said, adding that the paperwork for such a permit could be filled online and it takes five working days for the permit to be issued.

The Act, which is over 1,237 pages long in English and Bahasa Malaysia, is on the Miti website and covers a broad range of sensitive goods and items to control or prevent them from being used in nuclear armament and weapons of mass destruction, especially if they fall into the hands of extremists.

same no? 

that looks more like a neighborhood outpost rather than a real station... i think if it happens in singkieland neighborhood police center the same result can be expected.. even in US i guess same for the sheriff dept... but if we are talking about a full fledged urban police station, i am sure certain security design would already be put in place to prevent such occurance

MP5s, by my observation, and of course shotguns. But I have never seen motorbike police with MP5s, only car units. Do bike cops carry them?

Hard to say if there are even 11 people to use those 11 rifles, from the looks of the video, it doesn't seem like much resistance was put up... just giving away free weapons really