Malaysia to Enhance its Maritime Surveillance Capabilities

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)

Malaysia is interested in enhancing its maritime surveillance capabilities. Its Air Force is planning to use advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as one of its key components in air defense, especially in monitoring national waters in future.

“RMAF is planning to use UAV in future especially in monitoring strategic areas such as South China Sea, Straits of Melaka and Sulu Sea near Sabah.

“Information from UAV can be shared with other related security forces branches,” Air Force chief Tan Sri Affendi Buang said, according to malaysiandigest.com.  

He added that the RMAF was also conducting a detailed study to identify the UAV capable of meeting the current needs of the country apart from being equipped with technologies which could be shared with various parties in the country.

He said there were many types of UAVs in the market currently including those equipped with sophisticated technology with a wider flying range which would be suitable to the requirements of national security apart from meeting the needs of other government agencies and departments.