SAF to train in India - bring out the "pratas and teh tarek"
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From a News Release by Channel News Asia, there will new menus of Indian curries, "teh tarek" and ginger tea, prata for SAF, when our troops will be training in India by 2004.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/52063/1/.html
Singapore may have joint army and air force exercises with India soon
By Channel NewsAsia India Correspondent Atul Jolly
NEW DELHI, India: Singapore soldiers and pilots may soon be heading to India for joint army and air force exercises.
This is one of the many benefits of a new defence co-operation agreement which Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean is signing on Monday with his Indian counterpart, George Fernandes.
This is the first time Singapore's Defence Minister has visited India, and there was all the usual pomp and pagentry.
The Defence Agreement paves the way for the armed forces of Singapore and the sub-continent to co-operate in many different areas, including the exchange of personnel and training courses.
It will also promote the sharing of intelligence - vital in the war against terrorism.
On top of this, Singapore is keen to explore the use of India's training areas, and to expand joint military exercises to include land or air forces.
The two countries have already held joint naval exercises for many years. - CNA -
hahahahahah! the topic header... bring out pratas and teh tarik
i tot it was from talkingcock. -
Thats good ! Our Vipers can go against their MKI , allowing us to gain experiences agaisnt the SU-30 .....
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Actually the we have been training withn the Indians for some time already just that is have been restricted to naval exercises so far. Think we gain valuble knowledge when training with there Russian submarines in ASW.
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Yah , the rag-tag foxtrot class diesiel submarine...Originally posted by tankee1981:Think we gain valuble knowledge when training with there Russian submarines in ASW. -
Hey, don't forget their Kilos and Type 209s......
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I wun be surprise if part of the package comes with sending rsaf pilot(s) to be attached with indian mig or su squadrons. and vice versa with rsn.
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I have not heard of RSN engaging them b4. The last time we engage is the foxtrot...... if we manage to touch the KILO , thats a bonus...Originally posted by warspite:Hey, don't forget their Kilos and Type 209s...... -
Hmmm..might be good synergy among israel-india-singaporeOriginally posted by cavsg:I wun be surprise if part of the package comes with sending rsaf pilot(s) to be attached with indian mig or su squadrons. and vice versa with rsn.
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very good.... must ally and train with all the heavyweights like china, india, australia, will be the most useful when got crisis
btw, does singapore train in china now? or is the whole thing off? -
I don't think we will we training in the PRC any time soon as we still have Starlight in ROC.
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Hainan Island was offered by PRC to SGP, to get us out of Taiwan.
With our heavy dependence on USA for military hardware, and the close synergy and ties in Military relationship, it will be very doubtful if SGP will ever take up this offer from PRC.
The recent Singapore Telecoms attempt to take over the now bankrupt US telecom giant - Global Communications - is revealing in the concern of the US Government of any SGP association with PRC related companies.
In the attempt by SingTel to take over GLOBAL Communications, the attempt had met with stiff resistance, when it was discovered that a Hongkong Company with China GLC was a partner with Singapore in this deal.
It was only when the Hongkong Company withdrew from its joint venture with SingTel, and with a smart move by SingTel to allow the majority of Directors to be retired US Generals (in a newly formed Board) that this deal finally received approval from the US Government.
Singapore Government Linked Companies have bought into many other US Corporations that have faced business closure due to financial problems, and most of these US companies are servicing the US Defense Establishments.
The present success in the US-SGP industrial-military relationship was carefully cultivated, and it will be unlikely that this relationship will ever be placed in jeopardy by moving any closer to China in this same area. -
we always had good, albeit lowkey, synergy with india. Once i believe we had a retired senior air force officer from india conduct basic pilot training for rsaf.
Here's to the greater and deeper cooperation with india! -
Talking about India/Singapore military co-operation. In the mid nineties, we utilised the artillery range in India to test our FH2000 155mm howitzers. After firing the guns to the maximum range, we realised that there were no manual markings for targetting or report to show the trajectory of our guns ammo landing on targets. We were quite puzzled and with our estimation of the Indian military to be outdated and old fashion, wondered how the range master is going to lets us know the capabilities of our guns.
We were totally astonished when the Indian range master in his heavily accented english explained to us via satellites photos on our trajectory/accuracy of our firing of our guns. Amazing. -
Originally posted by damienthedevil:We were totally astonished when the Indian range master in his heavily accented english explained to us by showing satellites photos on our accuracy of our firing of our guns. Amazing.
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