USS America and her embarked 31st MEU makes a grand entrance into Sydney Harbour this morning, signaling that Ex. Talisman Sabre’25 is just around the corner.

The site of the current Lim Chu Kang Road, which has hosted seven Singapore AF alternate runway exercises Ex. Torrent since 1986, will be closed for good early tomorrow morning as part of a road realignment to accommodate the expansion of Tengah Air Base.

USN 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge departs sunny Sydney last weekend after a five-day port visit. Also a close-up of the pair of embarked MH-60S from HSC-12 “Golden Falcons”.

Fortunate to have caught a Taiwanese photo-recce RF-5E Tigergazer in my latest visit to Hualien earlier this week. With the remaining ROCAF F-5s on the verge of retirement, sorties are few and far between.

Banking for short finals, 732 was one of 2 similarly configured RSAF C-130H to return after a really long sortie. There has been signalling of ops readiness on social media pages by all four Singapore’s armed services, likely due to the MAF/JMF exercise across the straits and…

Today marks 20 years to the day on 31March2005 when the Singapore AF A-4SU Super Skyhawks flew their last sorties from Singapore. It was an unforgettable memory when 12 twin-seat TA-4SUs - which the RSAF flew in operational roles - mass-launched out of Tengah that morning for a (1/n)

An air-launched HF-3 will add to TW’s anti-ship missile capacity and lethality.. only if the development effort proves successful and MND follows thru with the procurement. Orders have yet to be placed for recent programs such as the updated TC-2 AAM under the Ben Chien project …

I took a look at Singapore’s down-selection of the C-295MPA and P-8 for its MPA recapitalisation.

At the currently ongoing parliamentary budgetary debate, Singapore defence minister announces a purchase of two additional Invincible–class subs from TKMS for a fleet of six. He stated that a larger fleet will allow better operational capacity.

Best analysis I have seen, from a former foreign service officer friend of mine.

Almost like a dream come true seeing pictures of Python 5 AAMs hanging off a Singapore F-16D+ in recent days. Since the early 2000s, the RSAF was rumoured to have taken delivery of the earlier but identical-looking Python 4 missiles for its F-16s, F-5s (and possibly A-4s).

First Post 😀. Taiwanese media reported that the ST Engineering Bronco 3 spotted at Taipei Taoyuan airport as likely being a Singapore Army one that has undergone training on the island as part of 'Ex Starlight'. I’m not too sure about this. 1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Px5...