Originally posted by Pitot
Actually, our airspace oso not say quite big. I think its too big a
plane for us. Jet engines summore.. If our AWACS aircraft in future
transits into a jet plane, den perhaps MPA got chance oso.
Our RSAF aircraft are never really restricted by the lack of
Singapore's airspace. This can be seen from the fact that our
planes train in the South China Sea and patrol in the Straits of
Malacca. So airspace is not really an issue here.
I agree with you that it may be too big for us. But in the future
we may need to patrol a larger area as compared to what we are
doing now due to the greater demand for aerial maritime patrol to
prevent terrorism and piracy. Our replacement for the E-2C is
strongly rumoured to be a Gulstream 5 equipped with Phalcon. So the
prospect of having a larger jet powered MPA is not too small.
