This is a picture of Singapore's latest unmanned aerial aircraft, which enjoys a free-and-easy intrusion of Malaysia's airspace, especially in Johor. And this is confirmed by a Mindef senior official.
In other countries, notably the US and Europe, such intrusion would be dealt with accordingly; either the plane will be shot down or a protest note will be sent to its country of origin.
However, we let Singapore spit on our head by allowing their military aircraft to penetrate deep inside our airspace. What kind of actions have we taken? Try let one of our aircraft to stray a few kilometers inside their territory, and I bet it will be shot down of driven out.
I used to write about this in a local English daily some years ago, and Mindef and our Foreign Ministers did send a note of protest to the Republic but it didnt really stop them from carrying out espionage mission on us.
At the Dewan Rakyat today, Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said there have been 2,508 violations of Malaysian air space by Singapore military jets since 2008. What Malaysia did was lodging diplomatic protests against the violations.
But they keep on coming.
Ahmad Zahid said that every suspicious movement of a Singapore military aircraft was monitored with the equipment of the Malaysian armed forces and Civil Aviation Department. "This year alone, up to May, 19 aircraft movements (violations) were detected on an average of four a month," he said in a written answer to a question from Khairy Jamaluddin (BN-Rembau).
He said there were 985 violations of Malaysian air space by Singapore jets in 2008, 1,286 in 2009, and 218 in 2010.
Please remember that their soldiers are being trained by the Israelis. Our previous regime, apart from selling sands to the Republic (if I am not mistaken), had also allowed them to use our airspace for their military trainings.
So, are we going through diplomatic channel again? One or two could be a coincidence but a few thousands are deliberate attempt to undermine our security!