Saturday, October 31, 2015

Singapore Military's Secret Edge

Singapore credits its engineers and scientists with enhancing its military capabilities. It even called its 5000 strong defence technology community, its secret edge weapon.

There are some interesting nuggets of information gleaned from this reference article from the magazine, Cyberpioneer.  For example, the Littoral Mission Vessel has a system that automated the watch duty for its crew. No more manual scanning of the surrounding sea. The all-round electro-optical surveillance system allows the ship crew to monitor the sea on screen.


The LMV (Littoral Mission Vessel). Designed for various missions in the congested waters of the world's busiest straits.

A similar capability on the Terrex 8x8 armoured infantry fighting vehicle allows it to be driven totally by camera. The Terrex also has an advance hostile fire detector that automatically prioritise the threat. In addition to the location of the threat, the acoustic system is smart enough to differentiate between the different calibre of incoming fire.

The Terrex can ferry up to 13 soldiers, and travel across rugged terrain at a top speed of 105kmh.
Acoustic system mounted on left rear position of Terrex

Cyberpioneer

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