29 May 2007

Singapore Adopts Hermes 450 UAVs


From an Defence Industry Daily:

"Singapore's Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean recently officiated at a parade to inaugurate the Republic of Singapore Air Force's (RSAF) new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Command. UAV Command has been constituted as an integrated entity, with personnel from the Army, Navy & Air Force as well as from the Joint Staff."

and the article also noted:

"The new command will operate Singapore's 2 squadrons of Searcher II UAVs, which were used successfully during the multi-national Exercise Wallaby 2006."

3 comments:

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intelligience, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) purposes.

Rachelle said...

haha ... when you sms-ed me, i was wondering how we managed to get so many Hermes bags. They are on allocation, you know. The waiting list for the Birkin is about 3 years.

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Bags and RPVs! Hilarious, Quality Chick!