South Africa's Denel said that Malaysia has confirmed to buy armoured personnel carriers for which the company will supply the turrets. Communications manager Sinah Phochana said Malaysia's defence ministry handed a letter of intent to DRB-Hicom Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (Deftech) at the Defence Services Asia Expo 2010 last week. "Deftech has in turn handed over a letter of intent to Denel as a technology partner for the joint manufacture of turrets and for the systems integration of the programme".