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Saturday, December 12, 2009

BAE hints at restarting frigate deal

KD LekiuBAE Systems has had talks with the government over resuming Malaysia's light frigate program, which has been on hold for more than a year.

The global defense, security and aerospace company received a letter of intent from the Malaysian government in July 2006 to procure two new frigates based on the Lekiu design of which Malaysia already operates two.

However, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who was then the deputy prime minister and defense minister, deferred the project -- called Batch 2 Lekiu Frigates -- in 2008 because of global economic conditions.

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