One of Malaysia’s former Royal Malaysian Navy warships has been included as a playable unit in a naval warfare-themed multiplayer on-line game.
In a latest update, World Of Warships added Pan Asian Cruisers, a brand new department of ships described as having “small-caliber guns with high rates of fire and powerful deepwater torpedoes, but they cannot boast of having high survivability”.
This contains Malaysia’s KD (Kapal Diraja) Rahmat and several other ships from neighbouring Thailand and Indonesia’s navies.
According to the Rahmat Maritime Museum, the place the ship was docked and transformed right into a life-sized historic monument, the ship was launched again in 1967 beneath the identify of KD Hang Jebat.
However, after a run of unlucky occasions in Seventies, it was renamed KD Rahmat. It additionally boasted a number of firsts for the area together with Surface to Air Missile (SAM) launchers.
It was up to date a number of occasions all through the Eighties and was ultimately decommissioned in 2004.
According to vessel monitoring service Fleet Mon, after being decommissioned, it was handed over to the Perak state authorities and transformed right into a museum ship in 2011.
However, again in 2017, the ship began to tackle water and partially sank. Its present standing is unknown.