Iftar with awesome Bloggers and forumners of Panggilan Pertiwi

Yeah quite late to report this, but last Ramadhan on the 7th Sept i was able to attend an Iftar for Panggilan Pertiwi Military Forum.

I arrive rather late because i was sick and hospitalize in the morning (tak puasa hehe) ... so i had to drive all the way from Melaka to Kuala Lumpur simply to attend this Iftar. What makes this Iftar special? and whos attending it?

For one finally i met ShahPaskal the writer of Military of Malaysia... it was fun meeting him and we share tonnes of story. It really awesome to listen stuff that one cant share over the internet. Answered alot of questions that lingered behind my head all this years.

Shah Paskal on the way to Afganistan... you can read the rest of the story here.

Also i am honoured to meet Lt Kol Basri Omar PGB a great guy. Rather quiet , he sit beside me. At first i didnt recognise him but the good Col break the ice and introduce himself to me. His exploits during the war against the communist during the OPERASI(OPS)  KOTA 26 April 1976 are a good stuff to read and study.

 Lt Kol Basri Omar PGB Recipient on the 2 Jun 1976

He is rather quiet.

By the way someone build an AWESOME diorama of this operation. Check this out!

Ops Kota Gubir

It was done by CK Loo, CK Tang, Aidy Abdullah, Hilmi, Brian Param, Thomas Ng

awesome or not?

Now ShahPaskal come with his good friend... quite famous too... its ondscene hehe. He is quite a guy.. always on the phone and yeah we receive the news about Sosilawati car while Iftar with him.  We chat and laugh like good old friend.

ondscene are 6 from the left. The rest are members of the forum.... the one with the blank face are shahpaskal.

Anyway another interesting character i met during the Iftar are a fellow forumner called snipergunung. He is an ex sniper who have seen combat almost all over. Some of his exploits are still classified but his experience in Somalia are one awesome story to read. Unfortunately i cant write it here. Hehe.

Thats him sitting at the front row 2nd from the right. He score quite a kill in somalia.

 ... and last but not least i am honoured to meet  Lt Kol Mohd Radzi bin Abd Hamid aka penaceloreng ... he is the writer of this book : NOVEL PERANG PLATUN HARIMAU an awesome book about the exploits of RAMD Tiger Platoon versus the Malaya Communist Party special forces the Black Jacket.

The Book... its fiction though based on a true event.

Lt Kol Mohd Radzi bin Abd Hamid signing an autograph.

Selamat  Hari Raya Everyone!

Royal Malaysian Navy KD Lekiu Upgrades

Royal Malaysian Navy KD Lekiu Upgrades

Malaysian Navy officials, repeatedly talked about the advantages of hewing to only a handful of basic hull designs and working to extract the maximum from each design's potential.

It is not clear, however, whether the Navy wants to sanction a redesign of the Lekiu Class to accommodate more missile launch tubes, a more powerful engineering plant or a much bigger radar. Several sources said the service was directing design studies to hold to the 51's existing dimensions, but others said those improvements would mean lengthening or otherwise enlarging the hull.

The Navy sees a need for a radar that can handle emerging threats such as a ballistic missile with independently targetable warheads, a weapon under development by China. The roughly 122,000-ton Lekiu X will have an integrated power plant that can drive the powerful radars needed to pick up the fast, small warheads. It will be a challenge.


But Navy plans show a total of only eight Lekiu (X) cruisers over the next 30 years, far less than the stated requirement for 19 of the ships. The shape of the Lekiu(X) program has been in limbo for more than a year. An Analysis of Alternatives was to have been released in the fall of 2010, but the Navy spent all of last year reviewing and revising the plan, and has yet to announce when it could appear.