Why do people get alarmed at Poland's arms race but ignore Singapore? Singapore is literally planning to get more submarines and build some aircraft carriers. They already bought some VTOL F35s. Whats next? They had close ties with Taiwan due to ethnolinguistic shit I dont really understand. Israel helped build the Singaporean military. Is Singapore an ally?
Also, are smaller aircraft carriers the future? Are frick huge super carriers obsolete?
I love the F15 so much bros.
Is it the twin engines or the is it the pod at the bottom?
How long until the singaporean F-35 schizo shows up?
>How long until the singaporean F-35 schizo shows up?
he could be here now
he could be anywhere
>Is Singapore an ally?
Singapore lives on big business and does NOT want to see the utter economic apocalypse that would occur should China go for Taiwan. It would get especially bad if the US goes weapons hot and starts blockading shit. Also, they could easily be next in line depending on how colonialist China feels that day. So they want to just look tough and make all sides play for their support and fear their ire. I don't know if they'd reaaaaally be willing to start shooting in a Taiwan scenario if it came down to it.
So theyre another paper tiger? How many fricking paper tigers are there in this world holy shit
that's the entire idea of deterrence anon. Have JUUUUUST enough military power that it's not worth taking a chance on you.
I dont think conscripting your entire male population, getting the largest air force in the region and getting submarines and aircraft carriers are necessary to scare off people. Its overkill
Is this opinion backed by a military assessment, or are you just talking out of your ass?
Singapore is a small country. It may "punch above its weight" but it will never make a big impact worldwide. Even the people living there realise this.
I just checked google maps and Singapore is literally one city on an island, Hong Kong style. They have literally zero land arround it. Where do they store all their shit, where are their facilities? Military needs lots of space.
According to some singaporean i met in ffxiv, a large portion of their tanks are hidden underground. Thats all i know though
I can answer some of those questions
> Ground Equipment
A lot of the expressways have frequent underground tunnels with doors off to either side
> Air Equipment
There are four bases along the north side of the island, it actually makes living in the north a pain because of the noise from constant drills. In addition, most of you have probably heard about the freeway runways, where long stretches of freeway besides the air bases are perfectly straight and all the planters and barriers are removable within a few minutes
> Freshwater
They dredged up and dammed the little harbour off of Singapore's downtown, so that during emergencies they can drain it and fill it with freshwater to act as a water supply
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picrel: the Marina Barrage that separates the freshwater reserve from the ocean
in 2016, they held drills on clearing and using the freeways (they call them "alternate runways")
I have probed the ancient texts, scoured the ten thousand archives, and journeyed back. Behold! The answers to your myriad questions:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Military_Training_Centre
they train in the shed
>Where do they store all their shit
Half underground or in sheds, picrel, half in overseas allied training facilities including Guam and Queensland
>Is Singapore an ally?
Ask the US Navy; they literally have a frigate base in Singapore. Oh and probably a joint base in Guam too.
>are smaller aircraft carriers the future?
Only for small states like Singapore who can't afford large ones.
>Are frick huge super carriers obsolete?
Unlikely, for reasons of economies of scale. It's a lot cheaper to run a 100kton carrier than three 35kton carriers of equivalent firepower.
>Why do people get alarmed at Poland's arms race
>alarmed
I'm not alarmed at all. I eagerly await the day Poland goes on the offensive to genocide the vatniks into oblivion.
Poland mentioned!
>are frick huge carriers obsolete
No (not exactly an expert on navy things) I’d imagine it mostly comes down to budget so instead of 1-2 large 80-100 plane nuclear powered carriers for $10b or so each it’s cheaper to buy 3-6 small 30-40 plane carriers for $3.4 billion (America class for instance) so you can save on upkeep costs and be in more places at once
>nukes your citystate
Singapore's whole thing is playing both sides
Until shit hits the fan; they are fully aware that only one side will actually respect their territorial integrity and waters and has been frequently hosting their deployments and will continue to do so
Poland is a White ethnostate run by ethnic Poles, Singapore is a tri-cultural economic zone run by a Chinese elite
No clue. What's Singapore gonna do? Take over all of asia and use their military might to force people to stop chewing gum?
Singapore is tiny, has a small budget, and has a small army, too small for expeditionary action. They're not going to do anything but sit on their island and defend themselves. They have a lot of conscripts but get real, they'll never activate them except for nation-threatening emergencies, which isn't likely to happen, so who cares? Basically they're all turtle no offense.
Also, the Singapore Armed Forces has never fired a single shot in a war throughout its entire history. (One anti-terrorist operation does not count.) They have zero real institutional experience. Literally GREEN as frick.
>Also, the Singapore Armed Forces has never fired a single shot in a war throughout its entire history. (One anti-terrorist operation does not count.) They have zero real institutional experience. Literally GREEN as frick.
this describes virtually the totality of europe, and certainly the experience of 80% of the world born after the year 1990
>this describes virtually the totality of europe
even some of the smaller states have experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, such as it is.
>the experience of 80% of the world born after the year 1990
I said INSTITUTIONAL experience, not INDIVIDUAL
>Also, are smaller aircraft carriers the future? Are frick huge super carriers obsolete?
Both have roles.
A supercarrier is what is needed to leverage the economies of scale to be an offensive unit, by going smaller you make compromise on either longevity, ability to maintain its aircraft or sortie generation.
Small carriers are there as a defensive asset that ocean going navies need as a minimum viable product to defend trade lanes
Singapore is probably the dumbest and most paranoid schizo in SEA. I can understand Indonesia and Malaysia military build up because both actually have conflict with separatist. But what is Singapore excuse? Malaysia literally GAVE independent to Singapore FOR FREE. Indonesia don't give a shit about Singapore and they use Singapore as tax haven. Who the frick they are trying to fight?
They are high IQ enough for a proportional build up
>not sure if moronic on purpose or dropped on head