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Hunter AFV of the Singapore Army firing an Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) during a live-firing exercise. The Hunter AFV has a remotely controlled Samson Mk II turret from Rafael armed with a 30 mm Mk44 Bushmaster II cannon, with a magazine for 200 30x173mm rounds, [ 15 ] two SPIKE anti-tank guided missiles , a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun , and ...
Standard general-purpose machine gun of the Singapore Armed Forces. [46] STK 50MG: 12.7×99mm NATO Singapore: Standard heavy machine gun of the Singapore Armed Forces. [47] Grenade launchers M203: 40mm grenade United States: Either attached to M4 carbines or SAR21. [48] STK 40 AGL: 40mm grenade Singapore: Mounted on vehicles. [49] [50]
The Singapore Army is the land service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). The largest of the four branches of the SAF, the Singapore Army traces its origins to the 1st Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (1 SIR), which was formed in 1957, when Singapore was still under British colonial rule.
The G5 howitzer saw action in Angola and Namibia in the South African Border War between 1986 and 1989, where it was in service with the South African Defence Force. The G5 was used operationally for the first time during Operation Alpha Centauri in 1986. [7] The G5 also saw action in the Iran–Iraq War between 1980 and 1988, where it was used ...
News Tonight (formerly News 5 Tonight, News 5 and before 1994 as just News) is a Singapore English long-running main flagship daily main evening nightly television news bulletin programme on Mediacorp Channel 5 since its inception which runs daily from 9:00pm to 9:30pm Singapore Time on daily/public holidays, providing a round-up of all the day's events around Singapore, as well as coverage of ...
The Guards formation was created on 1 January 1975 as the 7th Singapore Infantry Brigade (7 SIB) with four officers, five specialists and a few clerks. [7] [8] 7 SIB subsequently took command of the Infantry Training Depot (ITD) on 1 January 1976 and the 7th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (7 SIR) and 8th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (8 SIR) on 9 February 1976.
About Category:Terrorist incidents in Singapore and related categories The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism , a contentious label . Value-laden labels —such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable ...
← 1974 1973 1972 1975 in Singapore → 1976 1977 1978 Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s See also: Other events of 1975 Timeline of Singaporean history The following lists events that happened during 1975 in Singapore. Incumbents President: Benjamin Henry Sheares Prime Minister: Lee Kuan Yew Events January 1 January – The Singapore Maritime Museum is opened in Sentosa, albeit still ...