Integrated live firing from the air and ground, including the first firing of the Belrex Mortar at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, are all part of the SAF's biggest annual training in the land down under.
Four times the size of Singapore – that's the vast space the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) works with at Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA) in Queensland, Australia, where Exercise Wallaby is currently underway.
MODERN TRAINING FACILITIES WILL BE COMPLETED IN AUSTRALIA AND GUAM BY 2028 AND 2029 RESPECTIVELY TO ALLOW FOR COMPLEX AND REALISTIC TRAINING ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE.
STARTING THIS YEAR, SOLDIERS WILL BE ABLE TO TRAIN MORE REALISTICALLY AND EFFECTIVELY AS THREE NEW INSTRUMENTED BATTLE CIRCUITS AND SAFTI CITY PROGRESSIVELY OPEN UP.
The SAF returns to Queensland, Australia for Exercise Wallaby 2021 after a pause in the exercise series last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year's Exercise Wallaby training may have been slowed down by a fire ban, but the troops are making the best of the situation.
In his speech on the defence budget at the Committee of Supply debates on 24 Feb, Dr Ng Eng Hen outlined what the SAF has achieved, and its strategy for 2040 and beyond.
