Tag: RSAF
Airborne Trip Wires
Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft operating in the Asia Pacific region.
From a purely West-centric view-point, it may come as something of a surprise to...
Affordable Maritime Patrol
While nothing is cheap in defence, a range of less expensive capabilities might be enough, especially if networked with allies.
The Indo-Pacific region has...
Singapore, Australia conduct bilateral amphibious warfare exercise
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) are conducting a bilateral ship-to-shore exercise at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in...
Taking on C4ISR and Cyber
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the absolute necessity of coordinating C4ISR in a major conflict. Nations in Asia have already been adding to...
Taking Out ‘The Toys’
The Asia Pacific industry has ‘changed up gears’ in providing solutions to counter UAS threats.
The proliferation of affordable and readily available small unmanned aircraft...
Bigger, Further, Better
Where China is growing its unmanned aerial vehicle fleet, nations across Asia Pacific are finding budgets too for these more strategic assets.
Military forces are...
Chasing the Middle East Top Guns
In the last decade, the Middle East has become the happy hunting ground for Fourth Plus-generation fighter aircraft manufacturers.
It began in 2007 when Saudi...
Asian Air Force Modernisation
Regional tensions have forced the pace for regional air forces to buy new capability or update legacy platforms.
The increasing prospects of a peer-on-peer...
Singapore selects Arkansas for F-16 and F-35 training
Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) announced on 4 June that it has selected Ebbing Air National Guard Base (ANGB) in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to...
Eyes in the Sky
Roaming UAVs ease airborne border and coastal surveillance.
Enduring territorial disputes, illegal immigration, transnational crime, and domestic and international terrorism in Asia-Pacific continue to drive...