Malaysia receives drones from Japan under security framework

Malaysia's military has received some surveillance drones from Japan as part of its security assistance, in a bid to boost the Southeast Asian nation's maritime border surveillance, officials of the two countries said Monday.Under a framework called Official Security Assistance, which Japan launched in 2023 to provide defense equipment to like-minded countries, several of the 14 Japan-made drones to be given to Malaysia have already arrived in the country, with the military planning to deploy them to areas facing the South China Sea.Malaysia, one of the first four recipient countries Japan …READ FULL ARTICLE