-Navy Recognition – The latest updates on the Malaysian LCS program.

- Defense Technology International – DCNS, through its local partner in Malaysia, Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS), has won its first export contract for a Gowind ship. The €2.14 bn deal has been signed by BNS with the Malaysian government for six Gowind-class corvettes, the biggest of the Gowind family developed on its own funds by [...]

- BBC – Malaysia says its navy commandos have foiled an attempted hijacking of a ship in the Gulf of Aden, rescuing 23 crew and capturing seven Somali pirates.

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.more…

New Straits Times – The Royal Malaysian Navy is looking at acquiring the capability of protecting its two Scorpene diesel-electric submarines.more…

Bernama – A look at the training required to take the Malaysian Navy’s new submarine, the Agosta-class Ouessant, to sea.more…

Bernama – Life aboard the Ouessant, the Agosta-class submarine used by Malaysia’s first batch of submariners for initial training.more…

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.more…

New Strait Times – Malaysian naval ships will continue patrolling the disputed maritime border in the Sulawesi Sea.more…