Expansion of Singapore Armed Forces’ training area in Australia on track for 2024 completion

Expansion of Singapore Armed Forces' training area in Australia on track for 2024 completion

In Queensland, Australia’s Shoalwater Bay Training Area, the SAF conducts its largest punitive international exercise each year. Personnel can execute difficult and large-scale exercises below that cannot be done backwards back thanks to the great terrain and airspace, which is about four times the size of Singapore.

Zaqy Mohamad, the senior minister of state for defense, informed reporters that the Shoalwater Bay Training Area’s growth is expected to be finished the following month while he was visiting troops during the live-firing workout.

Additionally, the SAF and Australian Defence Force will be able to perform superior training, integrated activities, and live-firings using an Urban Operations Live Firing Facility and Combined Arms Air-Land Range.

The Shoalwater development, along with the nearby Greenvale Training Area, which is scheduled to be finished in 2028, may give the SAF a combined training place that is 10 times the size of Singapore, according to Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen next year.

The SAF can then carry training for up to 18 days over a 25-year period, involving as many as 14, 000 staff, 2, 400 automobiles, and tools.

The two countries signed a treaty in 2020 for the development of military education and training areas in Australia, which includes the development.