Sinaporean Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing officiated at the launch of the lead ship of the Victory-class Multi Role Combat Vessel (MRCV) Tuesday at the shipyard belonging to local defense contractor ST Engineering.
Defense Minister Chan Chun Sing told US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about the decision during a meeting at the Pentagon, according to a government statement.
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Euan Graham, Senior Analyst on Defence Strategy at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said that the presence of Singaporean special forces at the exercise is noteworthy.
On the helicopter front, Airbus and Italian manufacturer Leonardo announced they are collaborating on a NH90 Block 2 multirole rotorcraft upgrade architecture study to determine the long term evolution of the type.
“Having spoken with both the US and the Chinese, I think both sides will benefit from a deeper understanding of each other’s position, so that we won’t oversimplify complex issues or try to look for simplistic solutions," Chan Chun Sing said today.
Low Jin Phang, president of Digital Systems at ST Engineering, said his firm aims to “push the boundaries of USVs and AUVs for MCM operations with AI.”
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Singapore announced a 12.3 percent hike in the defense budget on March 3, pushing overall spending to S$23.4 billion (US$17.4 billion) in the new fiscal year.
“Through this pilot collaboration with Oracle, we will harness advanced cloud and AI technologies to digitalise and transform our operations," Chief Executive of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency Ng Chad-Son said.
"We are proud to contribute to the strategically important effort to deepen bilateral cooperation with Singapore in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific," DIU Director Doug Beck said.
Collin Joh, an analyst at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, noted that this effort is part of a "progression from just bilateral to trilateral, and now quadrilateral maritime cooperative activity (MCA) formats" in the region.
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"Singapore, however, will have to somehow de-conflict cooperation with the United States with the digital and cyber cooperation programs it also has with the PRC," Ian Chong, associate professor at the National University of Singapore, told Breaking Defense.
Several US allies in the region have launched new subs this year, and others are making plans to buy them, reflecting a long-standing focus on undersea warfare that is only intensifying.
COVID-19 stalled defense programs, so money moves from last year to this, giving Singapore defense spending a single year bump of over 12 percent.
Breaking Defense talks with Chua Jin Kiat, executive vice president for international defense for ST Engineering, about the company's foreign sales goals.