SAF holds massive Forging Sabre war games in US
Forging Sabre as 'real as it gets' in high-tech warfare
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REAL-TIME BATTLE
'Previously, we focused separately on the tactical development of troops, setting up and fine-tuning the command headquarters and testing new weapons. We're now ready to bring everything together in more realistic missions... We want to train the way we fight.'
Commander of RSAF's Air Combat Command and exercise director Brigadier-General Lim Yeong Kiat (above)
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE (Arizona) - Singapore's air and ground troops played out one of their biggest and most complex unilateral war games in the United States on Saturday.
The place where the action took place, in the 1.6 million ha of rugged scrublands of the Barry M. Goldwater training area in Arizona, is 19 times the size of Singapore.
Codenamed Forging Sabre, the exercise involved more than 450 airmen and soldiers, including commando ground surveillance troops.
Making a debut in the proceedings will be the lethal Laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions or Laser Jdams.
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