http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/publicati...ov09_news1.html

I wonder if SAF and ADF will one day have joint exercises. Leopards and Abrams fighting together, Apaches and Tigers. Pumas and MH-90s. That will be a sight to behold.

Just adding on..

& having RSAF F-15SGs & RAAF F/A-18E/Fs joint participation in support of the ground exercise & probably F-35s when both sides operate this fighter type in the future (assuming the RSAF acquires the F-35 in the future).. :D

3,900 troops. if this were mountain home I wonder how the Idaho TV would describe it.

Bet they gonna emphasize on "joint exercise" again.. LOL!! :P

really if I were the ADF I would have a gaping mouth. looking back to my time, how we have really grown. and even then we already had two battalions.

Interview with the Manager of Base Services in Rockhampton

the dusty leopard tank is beautiful. can imagine it being all covered in mud at area D.

Pity they have to ruin most of their good pictures with low resolution and their crappy watermark.

Yeah, I couldn't disagree more on that.. <_<

Yeap.. :)

Same goes for our Navy. There are Australians who comment that our RSN may very well match them easily.

agreed.

o.t abit sharing what i managed to get out of world in conflict

But the SG Leopards and Auzzie Abrams Already Train together (click to see link to press release)

1. The Singapore and Australian armies conducted a bilateral armour exercise, Exercise Matilda, in the Mount Bundey Training Area in Darwin, Australia from 7 to 23 September 2009. About 180 personnel from the 48th Singapore Armoured Regiment (48 SAR) participated in the exercise with their counterparts from the 1st Armoured Regiment in the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

2. As part of the 17-day exercise, personnel from 48 SAR and the 1st Armoured Regiment conducted a series of tactical missions together and exchanged information on Main Battle Tank (MBT) operations and tactics. The exercise culminated today in a live-firing by the MBTs of both forces.

3. The Singapore Armed Forces and the ADF enjoy strong and long-standing defence ties. Both forces engage in a wide range of activities, which include bilateral and multilateral exercises as well as professional exchanges. These extensive interactions have greatly enhanced mutual understanding and friendship between personnel of both forces.

when I shared the pics on MP.net there I did get a request for a hi-res of the L2 pic...so yeah, good shot, poor image size (should be at least 1024 X 768 for the wallpaper?) :ph43r:

btw was quite curious by the mention of the armour live firing system...anyone knows/willing to speculate more details about it? at present it sounds more like an SOP set in place, not any physical system...

oh, and btw (again) i hope they are talking about the rear MG gunner here...

Thanks for the link bro.. Actually I already knew that our Leopards have trained with Aussie's Abrams..

Just dreaming of more integrated participation (especially air assets) into the ground assault exercises.. :rolleyes:

Very good looking indeed. My friend over at Wallaby was having a fit about cleaning out tracks. Heh.

3900? Would that be the largest Wallaby yet?

I think the largest I recall was around 5,500?

cleaning tracks? SWBTA wasn't so bad, nowhere near as bad as Sungei Gedong in wet weather (which is like 80% of the time).

I second that...thank god I don't have to do that now! :D

Sungei Gedong will always beat SWBTA hands down when it comes to cleaning the vehicle...

Ah, I see.

Yea, it was the heat that was killing him.

Frankly I consider SWBTA to be much more comfortable for a sustained operation than Sungei Gedong. First of all, the humidity is non-existent so you don't feel uncomfortable with sweat pouring down all the time, although you do have to drink a lot to prevent heat exhaustion.

Second, you get lots of dust but they are reasonably easy to clean off so that you can at least live comfortably. Sungei Gedong mud gets everywhere so that all your stores and living spaces are muddy when wet, and caked with mud when dried. In fact dried Sungei Gedong mud on the road wheel arms, wheel rims and tracks need to be chiselled off with a screw driver before being pressure blasted with water jet for cleaning.

When I was at SWBTA we measured the ambient temperature to be 45C in the shade, but heck I still like it better than Sungei Gedong. But at night is very cold, so that's pretty bad for us tropical people. By 1600 hrs you start to feel chill winds if you're wearing PT kit, and no way to bathe without hot water after dark.

gedong's washing bay (for 42 SAR at least) at one point of time clogged up pretty badly cause the outside contractor for some reason didn't come in time to clear the mud...having to dredge the sludge out with dustpans was totally disgusting and hilarious

Cyberpioneertv's short video on Exercise Wallaby 2009..

Watch here: Thunder Down Under

you see, that's the problem with SAF publicity (or perhaps just Singaporeans as a whole) we are so matter of fact and pay too little heed on subconsious cues. This cute chick purrs in our face that she's going to show us some leopards, and what do we see (OK a nasty leopard firing, but what the fornication is that LR doing there in the foreground?) and after that instead of leopards pouncing and running, we see a leopard crawling forward like it is starved of wallabies (she did say she couldn't find wallabies ;@) for the last five weeks!

the absolute best leopard video I had seen is from one of the scandinavian army, a group of three or four L2A6 were flying over a snowscape, and the beautiful thing is, the film director has them slightly staggered and speeding over a hump so that they leap slightly into the air, and you see them doing this leap one after another…

Relax bro.. I watched the video just because of the cute chick..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFO7CffdYls&feature=related

Here you go, enjoy

yes yes watch the snow sequence from 3:50 and for them to jump at 3:59 :wub: :wub: :wub:

Speaking of clearing the mud, during our time we were the contractors!

We had to clear the mud sump ourselves....still remembered going into the mud sump while trying to clear the remnants of mud inside.... :(

The music is heart pounding too. :D

Here's more vids (Dutch Army Open House)..

Leopard demonstration 1
Leopard demonstration 2

exactly, boyz these days so good life. :rolleyes:

Any links to more info on Ex Wallaby 2010?