Kek.
TNI annual budget is as much as SAF despite only spending 0.7% of GDP

Personally I have no idea what your beef it with ID.

But they are not cash strapped as you claim.

Israel Successfully Tests Advanced Anti-ship Missile System
The 'Gabriel 5' missile system will 'help protect Israel's strategic assets,' the military said following the test conducted by the navy

Israel successfully tested a new ship-to-ship missile system called "Gabriel 5" which was fired from a Sa'ar 6-class corvette of the Israeli Navy, the INS Oz.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the test was conducted in order to "see how the ship can deal with different threats by using new and advanced weaponry."

The "Gabriel 5" is an advanced ship-to-ship missile system capable of reaching various targets hundreds of kilometers away. The military added that the system can "help protect Israel's strategic assets" – an apparent reference to the Karish natural gas field which has become a target of Hezbollah. The IDF added that the successful test of the system will pave the way towards installing it on all Sa'ar 6 ships for operational use.

Although Israel is optimistic it will reach a U.S.-brokered deal with Lebanon regarding the maritime dispute, the security establishment is concerned that Lebanon-based Hezbollah will attempt to target the Karish rig.

Israel has beefed up its forces around the Karish gas field over the summer, following the downing of four Hezbollah drones over the Mediterranean Sea.

One drone was shot down over Lebanon’s territorial waters in late June, and did not pose danger to Israel, according to the Israel Defense Forces. A few days later, on July 2, the IDF successfully intercepted three Hezbollah drones over the Mediterranean.

The three drones were shot down by fighter jets and the Israeli Navy's Barak interception system. The military believes that the drones were not armed, and did not pose a risk to the country or to the gas field.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-09...9b-5ffe66330000

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Gabriel 5=Sea Serpent=Blue Spear





They are the same land attack cum anti-ship missile.
I have not seen a Western missile with such a long sea skimming range or low profile mode i.1. 290km (no booster): https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/dsei-2...i-ship-missile/

Interestingly, ST and IAI or Proteus has opted to use the max range of 290km (no booster) thereabout in its marketing materials - likely to keep to global Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) guidelines.

Or that as OEM missile manufacturers, they will only sell Gabriel 5/Blue Spear/Sea Serpent with a reduced range i.e. 290km (without booster) or max 300km limit (with booster (reduced fuel so that it does not breach the 300km ceiling)).

Read more on MTCR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Techn..._Control_Regime

However, Singapore and Israel as OEM manufacturers can deploy the same missile with its max range of 400km i.e. mixed high-low profile.

Sea Serpent/Gabriel/Blue Spear range is 430km

The DIS will comprise several groups within the Singapore Armed Forces previously established to deal with such threats, which are the C4I Community created in April 2012, Defence Cyber Organisation in March 2017, SAF C4 Command in November 2017, and the Cybersecurity Task Force in December 2020.[4][5] The DIS will consolidate these organisations under one service branch dedicated to psychological defence, tackling digital domain threats, cybersecurity and military intelligence.[6] It was projected to be formally established at the end of 2022.[2]

On 2 August 2022, the Parliament of Singapore amended the Singapore Armed Forces Act and constitution, formally placing the DIS under the SAF and granting the Chief of Digital and Intelligence Service (CDI) legal powers.[7] The DIS was formally inaugurated on 28 October 2022 at the SAFTI Military Institute. The State Colour was presented by President Halimah Yacoob and the first Chief of Digital and Intelligence Service, BG Lee Yi-Jin, was sworn into command.[8]

Singapore Armed Forces formally integrates its 4th branch - the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) (Motto: Defend and Dominate)

MISSION:

The DIS will defend and dominate in the digital domain.

As part of an integrated SAF, the DIS will enhance Singapore’s security, from peace to war.

Branches of the Singapore Armed Forces:


Sg Mindef


Land


Air


Sea


Digital and Intelligence Service (New)

Ground based launcher at 0.19 timestamp in the video.

There is a significant difference between Gabriel 5/Blue Spear/Sea Serpent compared to other anti ship missiles.

This missile is built to be a ground attack missile and anti ship missile at the same time. That is why Estonia and Finland bought it. Where do you think the missiles can fly to apart from the sea targets? Mother Russia.

Anti-ship missiles typically use active radar and/or combined with some form of optics. The missile needs to home in on a moving ship in the littorals or open sea. However, these same guidance systems often pose problems for land attacks or when the missile is near large land masses and islets/islands. The guidance system becomes confused. Anti-ship missile terminal guidance radar is optimized for picking a target out of ocean wave clutter. So it is not ideal to use anti ship missiles for land attacks unless it is for coastal i.e. shore attacks. Some anti-ship missiles do not have a land attack capability - harpoons got it later in the form of harpoons blk 2 and Exocets got it in the later MM40 Blk 3 version - but again, they are noted to be effective only for shore targets and not deep in-land attacks.

Gabriel 5/Blue Spear/Sea Serpent likely has a reliable GPS, inertial guidance and missile data link - comparable to Tomahawk (or did the Israelis/Singaporeans got US tech in?)

The result is a data link capable Gabriel 5/Blue Spear/Sea Serpent missile that puts it in the same category as the Block V Tomahawks (but half the range - more than enough for Israel, Singapore, Finland, etc.)

European defence ministry officials at the Sg Airshow in Feb 2022.

Long story short - SAF has upgraded its cyber defence and warfare units to new level i.e. branch within the SAF. This will allow better coordination, focus and channeling of resources with respect to cyber defence and cyber  warfare. E.g. SAF can leverage on tens of thousands of NS conscripts well versed in cyber knowledge and train them to be cyber troops e.g. hackers, tool developers, etc. The enemy will virtually be facing an armies of well trained hackers/cyber troops. Most of the best hackers are not your uncles in army fatigues but young men fresh out of universities and other educational institutions.

A conflict with SAF will be full spectrum warfare - air, sea, land and cyberspace.

Wars can be won or lost via cyber warfare. Infrastructure can be destroyed or taken over e.g. power stations, dams, etc. Military systems e.g. radar, etc. destroyed or spoofed. People can be dis-informed - causing mass panic. People (civilians and armed forces) can die from cyber warfare.

Another view of the deployed F16Vs and F15SGs with clearer serial numbers.

From the serial numbers (see my previous posts on this), Singapore would have bought circa 96 to 100 F16s. They gave 7 or 8 early A/B models to Thailand. So, this would mean that they have a current inventory of around 90 F16Vs.

Mai's note: Sg does not publish its orbat but it is not exactly a secret as well - military equipment need to be serialised. Military enthusiasts and even the main stream media rely on older data or presumed ones. It may not be correct.

The G550AEW (RSAF's) provided support mainly for Blue Air during Pitch Black 2022, with Red Air being controlled by the RAAF’s ground-based 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit (MCRU).

One of the factors in the radar horizon formula is antenna height. The same aircraft operating at 3000 feet against an antenna height of 25,000 feet (in an Airborne Warning and Control, AWACs, type system) would have a radar detection horizon of over 250 miles.

The range of an AWACS is much greater than that of ground-based radars - over 200 miles to the horizon and over 400 miles to another aircraft at a high altitude. A line-of-sight radar standing 50 feet above the ground theoretically can detect at about 30 miles a bomber flying at 300 feet above the ground. At greater distances, the bomber is hidden by theearth's curvature. The actual detection range might be less than the theoretical range because of the disruption or blocking of radar pulses by terrain features such as hills. The actual detection range might be greater than the theoretical range if the radar is located on a hill.

Basically SG could not continue to relies on the US solely anymore.
SG enter into an agreement with the US as a deterrence to it two nearest neighbour. But as geopolitics conditions change and the 2 bigger neighbors is more crucial to US interest and the fact that 2/3 of SG is ethnically Chinese which could put them at a very difficult situation.

If I'm a betting man, I say the IAI is the likely winner of the MPA tenders.

I also think IAI's ELM-2022ES AESA MPA radar as the key sensor:



https://www.iai.co.il/sites/default/files/2...0Brochure_0.pdf

We need to separate the aircraft from the sensors though. The Bombardier and Falcon 10X can fly faster and higher than the Boeing 737. Whether this is important in the context of South East Asia is another matter for consideration e.g. it could be a P8 but with the ELM-2022 AESA radar instead of the US AN/APY-10. The ELM-2022 is said to have higher fidelity in littoral conditions with air-to-air surveillance function (mini AWAC).

Remember this:

Dun worry, SG will never detect RMN invisible ships.

Likely replace by g-v class aircraft. System will be compatible with usn.

The Falcon 10X, of which the size is ultimately equivalent to that of the ATL2 has a large cabin over 16 meters long, 2,8 meters wide and 2 meters high. It is sufficiently large enough to imagine the integration of a weapon bay. Navy pilots, who have long preferred turboprops for maritime patrol, requiring them to change altitude regularly and to be able to fly very close to the sea (ATL2s can descend up to 100 feet only), gradually learned, with the Falcon 50, to convert to jet engines

These submarines, along with the previously acquired Archer class, will replace Singapore’s Challenger-class submarines.

The customised design is expected to be influenced by the export Type 214 submarine or Type 216 submarine. Features will include AIP and a combat system designed by both Atlas Elektronik and ST Electronics. The Invincible class also features an “X” rudder “which offers enhanced manoeuvrability in confined littoral waters, as opposed to the Type 214’s cruciform rudder arrangement.” The X rudder is used on the Type 212 submarine and its larger and newer derivative, the Dolphin 2-class submarine built for the Israeli Navy which is almost identical in size to the Invincible-class submarine (Israel and Singapore have extensive military ties and frequently procure the same weapon systems). They are believed to have Horizontal Multi-Purpose Airlock, which can be used to launch either torpedoes, divers, or special forces assault teams, and also have the capability to launch cruise-missiles while submerged[13] with an option for Vertical Multi-Purpose Airlock, for launching missile vertically, like the Tomahawk or Naval Strike Missile.

Good grief. They will have ballistic missile capability soon? We are so screwed.

Sinkie will die for Malaysia? Assume Sinkie bodoh? I'm not even sure Malaysians will die for Malaysia.

No more leverage over Sinkie. Cut water = already enuf desalination, newater. Cut chicken, not even a cluck of complain. Cut people = no impact over entire covid period, only Johor suffer from tourism drop.

Army used to be known to be very good to operate in jungle. But today, jungle getting less and less (forest area <44% of peninsular).

I think better not to irritate Sinkie anymore. One day they decide to sink Mahresia, what can Mahresia do? I think many will be happy to get paid in Sing dollar. Then no need to cross border every day.