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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]
CIS was originally incorporated on 27 January 1967, when it started out by producing ordnance for the SAF. [3] CIS' first product was the 5.56×45mm NATO round; other CIS products include the license-built Colt M16S1 (equivalent to the M16A1), and locally designed weapons such as the Ultimax 100 SAW, the SAR-80 and the SR-88 assault rifles.
The BR18 is a bullpup assault rifle made by ST Kinetics of Singapore. The rifle was officially unveiled at the Singapore Airshow 2014 as the Bullpup Multirole Combat Rifle . [ 4 ] The rifle is designed to fire both 5.56×45mm NATO and ST Kinetics Extended Range 5.56mm ammunition and comes as standard with MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rails at the ...
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Singapore became known as the "most heavily armed country on earth" when it purchased light tanks, M113 armoured personnel carriers, A-4 Skyhawks, and F-5 fighter aircraft in the mid-1970s. [14] In the 1980s the SAF in Singapore armed itself to attain the capability to defend Singapore's maritime lifeline. [15]
On 23 May 2006, the SAF Ammunition Command was formed at Rifle Range Road Camp to centralise ammunition command operations for all three branches of the SAF. [2] In April 2010, the SAF introduced the Military Domain Experts Scheme (MDES), a separate rank structure which runs parallel to the SAF's conventional rank system. Ammunition Command ...
On 9 January 2020 the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency approved a possible sale to Singapore of four F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing variants with the option to purchase an additional eight F-35Bs and up to 13 Pratt & Whitney F135 engines and other related equipment for an estimated total cost of $2.75 billion. [69]
Singapore Armed Forces Centre of Leadership Development (CLD) Selarang Camp: Changi: HQ 9th Division/Infantry (HQ 9 DIV/INF) [31] Supply Base East; 3rd Battalion Singapore Infantry Regiment (3 SIR) [32] Seletar Camp: Seletar: HQ Army Combat Engineers Group (HQ ARMCEG) 35th Battalion Singapore Combat Engineers (35 SCE) [2] Sembawang Camp: Sembawang