The little city-state has the biggest barrier spending plan in Southeast Asia during a period when China's inexorably decisive activities in the questioned South China Sea conduit goad territorial countries to venture up guard spending.
Singapore put on ice its arrangements to supplant 32 maturing Super Pumas after the April 29 accident of a regular citizen Airbus Super Puma, whose military variant had been the leader to secure the helicopter request.
The city-express, a client very looked for after by military temporary workers, had been relied upon to declare its choice in the primary portion of this current year, following year and a half of assessment.
"We are finishing assessments for the substitution," Ng told columnists. "We will declare it soon."
He gave no assessed time allotment, be that as it may.
The race for the agreement is between Airbus Helicopters and Italian firm Leonardo Finmeccanica. It would be the main significant test of trust in the military adaptation of the flying machine subsequent to the accident that murdered 13 individuals off Norway.
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"At the point when there are advancements, the assessment board of trustees will investigate it," Ng included. "You can't overlook it, and that goes for each stage."
"We are watching it, yet no rush by any stretch of the imagination, and there is no settled course of events that we have to make an assessment," Ng said.
The city state is additionally concentrating on strategic lift helicopters to supplant its Boeing Chinooks, Ng said.
Singapore could redesign its air capacities past helicopters by extending airbases at Tengah and Changi, with a "brilliant air base" possibly set up at the last to empower flying machine dispatch and recuperation with mechanized frameworks, he included.
Two new sort 218SG submarines delivered by Germany's ThyssenKrupp will join the armada from 2020.
To ensure against dread assaults, Singapore will set up a contingent estimated Army Deployment Force of talented fighters, equipped for reacting inside minutes.
Ng said it was "terrible" that ASEAN pioneers withdrew a typical proclamation on the questioned South China Sea, where Singapore is not a petitioner, at a meeting of outside clergymen of the Southeast Asian gathering in June.
"We would wish that it could have gone better, however things are as they seem to be," he said.
(Reporting by Marius Zaharia; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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