S'pore and Indian armies conduct bilateral exercise

[RPK]

S'pore and Indian armies conduct bilateral exercise

More than 750 soldiers from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Indian Army (IA) are participating in the eighth bilateral armour exercise, codenamed Exercise Bold Kurukshetra, at the Babina Field Firing Range in Central India from March 1 to 30.

As part of the exercise, the two armies are conducting joint planning and training, as well as executing integrated manoeuvres.

The exercise troop has carried out an integrated live-firing earlier today, which involved infantry fighting vehicles and tanks from both sides.

Chief Armour Officer, Colonel Siew Kum Wong and the IA's Armoured Brigade Commander, Brigadier-General Yogesh Kapoor, witnessed the live-firing and interacted with the SAF and IA troops as part of their visit to the exercise.

Exercise Bold Kurukshetra is held annually and underscores the warm and growing defence relationship between Singapore and India.

Aside from joint exercises, the SAF and the Indian Armed Forces also interact regularly through visits, courses, seminars and other professional exchanges

 

[IndoUS]

Wasn't there a deal to made where Singapore Air force would use one of Indian Air force bases as training bases since there isn't enough space on mainland. What happened to that?

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Wasn't there a deal to made where Singapore Air force would use one of Indian Air force bases as training bases since there isn't enough space on mainland. What happened to that?

That agreement has been operational for quite a few years already. Even that is an annual feature at Kalaikunda. Its a good opportunity for IAF to exercise with the RSAF F-16s, AWACs and Refuellers. It helps the IAF to hone up their tactics too.

 

[Varunastra]

SAF is a very modernized force............. totally network centric..............a very potent force but number lets them down

 

[Agent_47]

Indian Army T-90 tanks fire at Indo-Singapore Exercise 'Bold Kurukshetra' today at Babina