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KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 — Malaysia has the right to claim appropriate compensation from Norway and the company involved, following the cancellation of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) export licence, said Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
He said the claim is justified given that Malaysia has suffered financial losses, as well as lost valuable time and opportunity as a result of the cancellation.
“A substantial amount of public funds was allocated for this programme. If Norway had informed us earlier about the export licence cancellation, those funds could have been redirected to other purposes,” he said in a statement today.
Mohamed Khaled made these remarks in response to a New Straits Times article today titled “Move on from missile deal and find replacement”.
He said Malaysia is indeed moving forward and actively exploring alternative solutions to meet the nation’s defence needs; however, actions taken without accountability cannot be accepted or simply overlooked.
He stressed that finding a replacement for the NSM system is no easy task, as a weapon of such sophistication cannot be swapped out overnight.
He said the process would require fresh contract negotiations and the integration of a new system into existing platforms, all of which demand considerable time, cost and resources.
“More critically, this episode transcends a bilateral contract dispute. It has left our national defence and security in a vulnerable position.
“A firm message must be sent to Norway and the international defence community: such actions will not go unanswered or unaccounted for,” he said.
He added that Norway must be held accountable in a meaningful way, as both a lesson and a deterrent, to ensure this does not happen again, rather than being let off without consequence.
“What is equally concerning is the growing tendency for commitments and contracts to be set aside based on political or ideological considerations, thereby undermining trust in international agreements,” he said.
Describing Norway’s action as unjustified and damaging to bilateral ties, Mohamed Khaled said smaller nations and middle powers rely on a stable and predictable international environment, where every commitment and obligation is honoured.
“If a country or company can walk away from commitments without any accountability, it sets a dangerous precedent for defence, economic and strategic cooperation in the future. Therefore, compensation is not merely about recovering money that has been spent.
“If Norway truly respects the principles of a rules-based international order and values its long-standing relationship with Malaysia, then it should support a fair and reasonable compensation process, one that takes into account the full impact of this cancellation,” he said. — Bernama
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About 600 million years ago, the continents wandered Earth, yet to settle into their current positions. Their locations during the Ediacaran (as this time is called) have been tough for scientists to pin down. Earth’s magnetic field appears to have behaved in erratic ways, and applying standard techniques to calculate the continents’ positions based on records of the magnetic field yields implausible results. In particular, scientists debate the location of an ancient continent called Baltica, which is now part of Europe.
To investigate, Xue et al. traveled to Egersund, Norway, to collect samples of rock that formed during a time when Baltica’s crust was being pulled apart, allowing magma to percolate up from below. As that magma hardened, it recorded snapshots of Earth’s magnetic field, storing information about Baltica’s position in the process.
The results of studying these samples revealed a much more complex picture of the ancient rocks than the scientists initially envisioned. The rocks contained a messy mix of at least six magnetic signals. Several appeared to have formed when more modern geological processes altered the original rocks. Three distinct signals may have survived from the Ediacaran period, two of which diverge from the most plausible Ediacaran signal, which places Baltica near the equator. These conflicting signals further support the idea that Earth’s magnetic field was behaving strangely at the time, adding new complexity to an already puzzling picture.
On the basis of the new results, the researchers place the Egersund paleomagnetic pole at 20.8°N, 89.0°E during the Ediacaran—which diverges from previous results—and suggest that Baltica was located near the equator, adjacent to the ancient continent Laurentia, but rotated slightly clockwise relative to previous reconstructions. The study demonstrates the convoluted nature of the magnetic signals preserved in ancient rocks and the importance of dissecting those records into their constituent components. Doing so, the researchers suggest, can shed new light on the enigmatic behavior of Earth’s magnetic field during the Ediacaran. (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012730, 2026)
—Saima May Sidik (@saimamay.bsky.social), Science Writer
This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. 本文是Eos文章的授权翻译。
大约 6 亿年前，各大洲在地球上漂移，尚未最终定格在现在的位置。在埃迪卡拉纪时期，各大洲的位置对于科学家来说一直难以确定。地球的磁场似乎表现得异常不稳定，而利用标准方法根据磁场记录来计算大陆位置的做法却得出了一些难以置信的结果。尤其是，科学家们对一块名为波罗的大陆的古老大陆的位置存在争议，这块大陆如今是欧洲的一部分。
为了探究这一问题，Xue等人前往挪威埃格尔松德，采集了波罗的大陆地壳被撕裂、岩浆从下方涌出时形成的岩石样本。随着这些岩浆冷却凝固，它们记录了地球磁场的瞬时变化，并在此过程中存储了有关波罗的大陆位置的信息。
对这些样本的研究结果揭示了远比科学家们最初设想的更为复杂的古代岩石图景。这些岩石中至少包含了六种不同的磁信号，构成了一幅复杂的混合图景。其中一些信号似乎是在更现代的地质过程改变原始岩石时形成的。埃迪卡拉纪时期可能保存了三种不同的信号，其中两种与将波罗的板块置于赤道附近的最合理的埃迪卡拉纪信号相悖。这些相互矛盾的信号进一步支持了地球磁场在当时异常活动的观点，使原本就扑朔迷离的图景更加复杂。
基于新的研究结果，研究人员将埃迪卡拉纪时期埃格尔松德古地磁极的位置确定在北纬20.8°、东经89.0°——这与之前的研究结果有所不同——并提出波罗的板块当时位于赤道附近，毗邻古老的劳伦古陆，但相对于之前的重建结果，其位置略有顺时针旋转。这项研究表明，保存在古代岩石中的磁信号极其复杂，并凸显了将这些记录分解成各个组成部分的重要性。研究人员认为，这样做可以为埃迪卡拉纪时期地球磁场的神秘行为提供新的线索。(Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012730, 2026)
—科学撰稿人Saima May Sidik (@saimamay.bsky.social)
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