[iwan]

losing the 'scrap metal' hawks are acceptable, but the migs..when was the last accident involving a mig?i remember a few years back that one of it crashed in a palm oil estate if im not mistaken..cant remember which year was dat..

sum new mkm pics from aviapedia...

This post has been edited by iwan: 05 June 2007 - 05:47 PM

[iwan]

here is a long interesting video on the mkm..

http://www.aviapedia.../su-30mkm-video
anyone can translate the russian?

[Naim]

They have arrived.

http://www.itar-tass...N...2&PageNum=0

Russia supplies first two Su-30 MKM jets to Malaysia

19.06.2007, 21.31

KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Two Su-30 MKM fighter jets out of 18 purchased by Malaysia were supplied on Tuesday.

An An-124-100 Antei jumbo cargo jet of the Volga-Dnepr Airline landed at an airbase 460 kilometers north of the Malaysian capital city at 6:50 p.m. local time (2:50 p.m. Moscow time), Rosoboronexport representative Viktor Kladov told Itar-Tass by phone.

“It is symbolic that the deliveries of Russian aircraft to Malaysia started on the day when the two chiefs of state are discussing military-technical cooperation at the Kremlin,” he said.

The planes were made at the Irkutsk aviation plant of the Irkut Corporation and supplied on time. They will be transferred to the Malaysian Air Force after being unloaded, assembled and inspected. The next shipment will be made later this year, while the rest will be delivered to Malaysia in early 2008.

Rosoboronexport has supplied technical and auxiliary equipment to Malaysia and trained the airbase personnel. “A whole Russian compound has been built here. It accommodates Russian pilots, technicians and their families. About 300 Russian plants and design bureaus fulfilled the Malaysian contract,” Kladov said.

In the opinion of the Malaysian Air Force commander, the Su-30 MKM will enlarge the Malaysian air might.

The Su-30 MKM (an abbreviation which stands for multifunctional, commercial, Malaysian) is an advanced modification of the widely known multifunctional fighter jet Su-30 MKI. However, the Malaysian version of the fighter jet significantly differs from the prototype. For instance, instruments made in Israel were replaced with French analogs by the Malaysian demand.

[Tamizi Hj Tamby]

MiG-29N Fulcrum & Su-30MKM Flanker...What an perfect combination for our Airforce!

[Rozhan]

There is a picture in today's paper (NST I think) with the planes delivered to Gong Kedak Airbase on the Antonov.

[iwan]

how much and who do we pay to fly one of those beautiful things?hehe..jk!its a brand new plane and the pilots BETTER take care of it..ill seriously cry if anything bad happens to those planes..(touch wood )
cant wait to see them at LIMA!!

ive got summore new pics of the birds at the kubinka airbase..line is too slow now..will upload it later..

[Mohd Yohan]

still waiting for the 1st pictures of our new birds

p/s moral of story : don't mess up with TUDM

[Fitri Shukri]

A lesser known/reported news about RMAF, is that some of their F-5 are active flying again, from Butterworth. I'm not sure whether they are the upgraded F-5E or the RF-5F. Sadly they like to to do low level flying around Butterworth at night!