00:00The Armed Forces have scrapped plans to purchase four second-hand Black Hawk helicopters worth
00:07187 million ringgit following Yang Dipertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim's call to do so.
00:13Armed Forces Chief Nizam Jafar said the plans were scrapped in light of Sultan Ibrahim's
00:18statement several days ago, in which he warned the Defense Ministry against putting the Air
00:23Force's pilots into flying coffins. Sultan Ibrahim had urged the Defense Ministry to
00:29cancel its procurement plan for the helicopters, which he said would be over 30 years old.
00:35Sultan Ibrahim, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, said the Ministry must not repeat
00:40its past mistakes, citing the controversial purchase of 40 second-hand A4 PTM Skyhawk aircraft
00:47in the 1980s when it initially planned to procure 88 jets. In November, the Defense Ministry scrapped
00:55a 187 million ringgit Black Hawk lease deal with AeroTree Defense and Services in Jumper
01:01Hut after the company failed to meet the October delivery deadline.
01:04Natasha Bust, FMT
01:07Natasha Bust, FMT
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