Defense Technology International – Malaysia Takes Delivery of Its First Ever Submarine

Malaysia took delivery today of its first ever submarine: a Scorpene built by French military shipyard DCNS in partnership with Spanish shipyard Navantia.

BBC – Malaysia is sending three navy ships to the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels from piracy.
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New Straits Times – The Royal Malaysian Navy is looking at acquiring the capability of protecting its two Scorpene diesel-electric submarines.
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Bernama – A look at the training required to take the Malaysian Navy’s new submarine, the Agosta-class Ouessant, to sea.
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Bernama – Life aboard the Ouessant, the Agosta-class submarine used by Malaysia’s first batch of submariners for initial training.
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New Straits Times – The navies of Malaysia and Indonesia today pledged to avoid a recurrence of last Friday’s incident in which two warships brushed sides while patrolling disputed waters near Pulau Sipadan.
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New Strait Times – Malaysian naval ships will continue patrolling the disputed maritime border in the Sulawesi Sea.
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