S'pore helped financed Israel's missile system !

As romanista2001 SG

Intelligence Online, a Paris-based online magazine covering intelligence and security issues published in English on a bimonthly basis, claims in its issue of March 2010 that Singapore helped finance the Iron Dome missile defence system.

TERMINATOR3000 SG

is this goin to end up like the lehman bros and all the other wrong stuff???

angel7030 SG

Its got anything to do with IRON MAN II or TERMINATOR SALVATION or not?

weasel1962 SG

Pure speculation. No factual base.

TERMINATOR3000 SG

really??what bout singapores underground submarine base in antarctica??

weasel1962 SG

Shhh.... that doubles up as a back-up nuke electricity generator.... sensitive. hush hush.

Samuel Lee SG

Will Singapore in return get some of the missles or other advantage? Why dont just buy missiles from poor North Koreans instead? (Fuc* US, they are just poor scumbags with a trillions of decifit, dont think they rich rich ho)

weasel1962 SG

North Korea no internet, cannot order online.

Intelligence online, for those without intelligence....

mancha SG

Singapore help finance?

Singapore help provide assistance, expertise, corroboration, most likely. And not for nothing. Singapore will definitely milk them to the max.

As for finance, Isreal have the US of A unlimited.

Could it be that Singapore banks were used, by the Isrealis for fund transfers for the project? They don't have much friends, you know.

weasel1962 SG

How many missiles or radars have Singapore actually produced such that we are in a position to provide assistance?

The stereotype is that jews lend, not borrow.

Even their MOD has already denied Singapore involvement.

As to bank fund transfer, that's crap I would expect from the SDP.

Why would US use a bank in a country known to co-operate with israel when there are like a hundred other countries where shelf front companies can do the job at much lower profile? lol.

Darth_Revan SG

I hear a former Mossad chief published a memoir in Hebrew recently, and in that memoir, he mentioned India and some other small country helped finance a considerable portion of Israeli R&D.........

And oh by the way, we do have a use for this system. The SAF is quite wary of the Msian MLRS.

^tamago^ SG

I think we finance to get a share of the technological know-how? Just like the F-35...

mancha SG

How many missiles or radars have Singapore actually produced such that we are in a position to provide assistance?

The stereotype is that jews lend, not borrow.

Even their MOD has already denied Singapore involvement.

As to bank fund transfer, that's crap I would expect from the SDP.

Why would US use a bank in a country known to co-operate with israel when there are like a hundred other countries where shelf front companies can do the job at much lower profile? lol.

You under estimate our DSO capability in R&D.

There is no smoke without fire, so there must be something that is construed as financing the Isreali project.

Denial, of course, its routine.

Darth_Revan SG

You under estimate our DSO capability in R&D.

There is no smoke without fire, so there must be something that is construed as financing the Isreali project.

Denial, of course, its routine.

I think rather, one shouldn't overestimate Singapore as a whole. We have no established industrial infrastructure, and within DSTA and DSO, ST has a "sucks monkey balls" reputation. We compare poorly with the Israelis when it comes to a lot of things. Some bright sparks sure, but we can't even manufacture our own armor. Instead we buy them from the Germans and apply them to our IFVs etc.

storywolf SG

Well we have a need for missile defense system , and isreal have something they are building that suit us.

Iook at the JSF and A400 as example - nowaday a lot of expensive defence system - they start getting customers to place orders to help cover the development cost .

Darth_Revan SG

A400 is so bloody expensive, we could buy a C-17 with that money.

weasel1962 SG

You under estimate our DSO capability in R&D.

There is no smoke without fire, so there must be something that is construed as financing the Isreali project.

Denial, of course, its routine.

No, I don't underestimate DSO cos its totally irrelevant. The article is not claiming DSO involvement. Its claiming financing.

I think however, that people are under-estimating Israel's capability to develop this on their own or over-estimating Singapore's interest in this system.

Denial may be routine but should we believe smoke (article) rather than fact (denial) esp when additionally to the above reasons like cost-effectiveness...

(a) The iron dome hasn't even been procured;

(b) There hasn't even been official interest.

The claim includes that Singapore will get a system. I'll wait and see but I'm not holding my breath.

weasel1962 SG

Well we have a need for missile defense system , and isreal have something they are building that suit us.

Iook at the JSF and A400 as example - nowaday a lot of expensive defence system - they start getting customers to place orders to help cover the development cost .

I agree. And unofficially, certain top level people in mindef/saf have indicated that soft-kill defenses are no longer as effective and that hard-kill options are inevitable. There are options beyond iron dome.

Both JSF and A400 are examples of cost-overruns. I agree with D-R in his previous post reg A-400.

lionnoisy SG

DEFENSE COOPERATION DUNT MEAN SG agree all Israel do

if SG finance other countries in defense RD, it just serve SG's purposes.

This financial assistance or cooperation dunt mean SG agree everything

that Israel do.

Pl separate politics and defense cooperation.

In life, as a individual and as a country, u cannot only cooperate with

some one whose action u agree 100 %.If so, i wander how many

friend u can work with.

Do u agree everything your spouse or family do?

2. It was reporterd few years ago that SG also finance Israel\

satellite project named fr O???

to a unknown country at USD 60m. in Jan 2010

Shotgun SG

North Korea no internet, cannot order online.

Intelligence online, for those without intelligence....

http://www.naenara.kp/en/