Malaysian missile boat berths at Middle Rocks base


A picture posted by Royal Malaysian Navy chief Admiral Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin on Twitter showing the KD Perdana berthing at the Abu Bakar maritime base on Middle Rocks. – Twitter pic, August 12, 2017.

MALAYSIA has deployed a missile-capable ship for the first time to its new maritime base on the Middle Rocks, which is near Pedra Branca, the island awarded to Singapore in a 2008 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Putrajaya is challenging.

The vessel dispatched to the Abu Bakar Maritime Base, located about 1km south of Pedra Branca or Pulau Batu Puteh as it is known in Malaysia, was the 44m missile-capable fast-attack craft Perdana. It was built by a French shipbuilder and commissioned in 1972.


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