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.

Was fortunate to have attended the previous two exercises in 2008 and 2016 and witnessed firsthand the effort to generate airpower from a six-lane public road.

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)

Reflecting the the ever-growing danger posed by uncrewed aerial systems, the island air defence system will be enhanced with new sensors, kinetic and non-kinetic weapons to deal with these threats. A Counter-UAS Development and Operations group has also been established

The Singapore Army's 15–year old Terrex ICV will be replaced with a similar 4x4 vehicle, known as the Titan, but with greater firepower in the form of a 30mm gun. ST's Terrex s5,with hybrid electric drive, could possibly form a basis for this new vehicle? shephardmedia.com/news/landwar...

He also states that Singapore is looking at the P–8 and C–295MPA as a replacement for its 30–year old Fokker 50MPA. I spoke to Boeing on their P–8 offering for the MPA program last year shephardmedia.com/news/naval-w...

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.

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).

Oshkosh and ST Engineering for the US Army CATV competition. Headlight configuration is also identical to the CATV contender. Hence likely this is one of the company's CATV prototypes. That being said, Singapore was due to receive its first Bronco 3s this year. 3/n

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...