Channel NewsAsia - Tuesday, May 20
SINGAPORE : The Singapore Armed Forces is in the midst of a complex air—land integrated exercise in South Africa.
Visiting SAF troops there, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean says the exercise confirms SAF’s capability to have comprehensive awareness and precision strike on multiple targets.
In the exercise, the SAF is using a variety of assets, such as the Longbow Apache Attack chopper, the Primus self—propelled Howitzer and unmanned aerial vehicles.
It’s all coordinated through a network overseen by the Division Strike Centre.
This means the SAF can see further and can engage static targets as well as fleeting targets which appear for a short while.
Such integrated strike capability is what’s driving the SAF’s third generation transformation.
Mr Teo said: "What this means is that the SAF division has the capability to see first and strike first, well into the division’s depth. That means the division is able to influence the battle well into the depth." — CNA/de
South Africa? a first i suppose.
No lah. I went last year. We came out of Jo-burg airport when the city was rioting. It seems this year the south africans are at it again. SAF was testing something else last year, not apaches or primuses.
hey our boys still there? I hope they already left. I saw the violence seemed to get worst.