Murai FIBUA for Urban Ops
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The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) unveiled its new Urban Operations (UO) training facility on 5 September 2008. It's known as the Murai Urban Training Facility (MUTF) and will comprise some 200 buildings of various sorts when completed.
Here are the first shots of the sprawling training ground. The urban landscape comprises four distinct areas:
* Old town - A confusing mix of low-rise developments, typically found in a slum area.
* New town - Commercial and housing developments linked by a road network. Includes drains, canals and street fences and street lighting. There is also an overhead bridge and bus stops.
* Residential - Low and high rise housing.
* Industrial - Factory-type buildings.
There is also a Water Works.
Buildings are pre-fab and pre-cast concrete.
Air space over the facility has been cleared for use by fast jets and helicopters. This will facilitate combined arms manoeuvres, supported by ground attack runs by RSAF warplanes and Apache attack helicopters.
Infrastructure explained. This is the view looking East. The training area extends all the way to the edge of the frame of the picture, with the two/three storey shop houses barely visible in this view.
There are alot more buildings not featured in this view.
Not visible are 150 metres of tunnels under the town.
Street level view of the MUTF. The roads are left unpaved as armoured vehicles will also use the training facility. Note the bus stop.
MINDEF said:"Built to resemble a typical town, the MUTF offers a range of realistic training scenarios, from small tactical engagements to large-scale combined arms manoeuvres."
About 1,000 troops can use the facility.
The buildings are built with an indoor tracking system to monitor troops as they enter the buildings.
The system tracks troops and vehicles in real-time, along with tactical engagements and casualties. The ability to simulate behind wall weapons effects should be a boon to UO training and small unit warfare in built-up areas.
Commercial buildings come with the five foot way and shuttered store fronts.
SAF Guardsmen after a rehearsal at the MUTF. All types of weapons in an infantry battalion, direct and indirect fire munitions, can be simulated in the training area.
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None of these is sensitive info I hope?
Anyway the new no.4 looks quite nice. These fellas look like a bunch of leaves standing together. haha
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chinesejunk leh
the lao jiaos know who he is.
and sensitive or not, he knows best
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CJ as usual..first hand news
Last time, i went to Murai..only got 4 buildings..now nice already
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Originally posted by Master -_-:
CJ as usual..first hand news
Last time, i went to Murai..only got 4 buildings..now nice already
waste taxpayers money on construction materials... with free labour from the engineers formation -
SAF opens its first urban training facility
By 938LIVE | Posted: 05 September 2008 1829 hrs
SINGAPORE: To support the development of the SAF's urban operation capabilities, a new training facility has been developed.
The Murai Urban Training Facility (MUTF) resembles a typical town. It is located within the SAFTI's Live Firing Area at Lim Chu Kang.
The facility features various urban districts to expose soldiers to different operating environments. These include multi-storey buildings and single-level houses.
For greater realism, features such as bus stops, traffic lights and overhead bridges have also been added.
To date, 150 buildings have been completed and training activities have commenced in these buildings.
The completed facility will house a total of 200 buildings and it will also include a variety of battlefield-effect simulators to further enhance training realism.
The facility is equipped with video monitoring and recording functions as well as a control tower for after-action reviews. These equipment will facilitate learning and doctrine development for the soldiers.
Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean launched the Murai Urban Training Facility on Friday.
- 938LIVE.
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Is it any coincidence that it looks just like a typical town in malaysia? Or designed to look like one?
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lol juz finish doing demo at tis place.trained for a long time to demo for minister teo chee hean.the place is detail until have chairs/sofa etc lol.
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Originally posted by dark_riverter:
Is it any coincidence that it looks just like a typical town in malaysia? Or designed to look like one?
that depends on whether you think the rows of neatly planted trees in tekong are meant to be user friendly lol
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where did u get those aerial photos?
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I thought those kind of short bungalow-like buildings can only be found in certain rich private residential estate of Singapore...not exactly a 'common' feature in Singapore.
Where are the HDB flats and the skyscrapers (not as if terrorist will not attack the CBD area)?
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Originally posted by hmsg:
where did u get those aerial photos?
Which aerial photo?If you're asking about the first pix it was taken from the balcony of one of the structures in the MUTF.
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it was purposely made to look like our neighbour
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Hellraiza, the 1SG at the last pic is holding a different variant of the SAR21 ar ???
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Originally posted by gd4u:Hellraiza, the 1SG at the last pic is holding a different variant of the SAR21 ar ???
Yep. Here's a front view. -
can bbq there?? still remember my bbq at one of the tekong rpl ramp... alot of meat with alot of cheap duty free beer... shiok sia..and just sleep on the ramp watching the stars above us.....
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Hmm, does it means that SAF will equip the SAR21 MMS to everyone, or just to section commanders only ? I got a feeling that it is quite impossible to do that for every soldier. But for commanders only, it sounds quite possible ... or is that still for wayang news only ??
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Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
can bbq there?? still remember my bbq at one of the tekong rpl ramp... alot of meat with alot of cheap duty free beer... shiok sia..and just sleep on the ramp watching the stars above us.....
sanyongkong camp in tekong also got BBQ pit iirc...but got no chance to use. sad
anyway is the MG gunner wearing ear protection muffler? now can fit helmet?
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Originally posted by gd4u:
Hmm, does it means that SAF will equip the SAR21 MMS to everyone, or just to section commanders only ? I got a feeling that it is quite impossible to do that for every soldier. But for commanders only, it sounds quite possible ... or is that still for wayang news only ??
Read this for more info...
http://www.soldiermod.com/summer-08/prog-acms.html
The part about the medic brings back sweet sweet memories. muahaha