SHAH ALAM: Singapore senior minister Teo Chee Hean officiated the launch of the Republic of Singapore Navy’s fourth and final Invincible-class submarine, Inimitable, in Kiel, Germany, today.
The first submarine, Invincible, was unveiled in 2019, while the second and third — the Impeccable and the Illustrious — were launched in December 2022, also in Kiel.
The Invincible-class submarine is 70m long, weighs 2,000 tonnes when surfaced, and requires a 28-member crew to operate.
Invincible which was shipped to Singapore in July last year, is expected to be commissioned into RSN by year end. It must be noted that the first two submarines were ordered in 2013, two more in 2017 and Invincible was launched in 2019.
— Malaysian Defence
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Any good news regarding PTL visit to PT PAL Marhalim?
Nothing AFAIK
Why does Singapore need so many submarines?
How often do they go to war?
off topic
there are news of mid-air crash involving TLDM AS555 and AW139 MOH
TWO RMN HELOS collided and crash at lumut.Early infos indicated all aboard are lost
4 highly customised submarines for the RSN. 4 is always the ideal number. Good planning by the RSN.
@Jack
"How often do they go to war?"
When Uncle Sam asked them to. This unlike us which are nonaligned and neutral except UN peacekeeping missions.
Joe "This unlike us which are nonaligned and neutral except UN peacekeeping missions."
We are definitely not. Just slightly less nonaligned & neutral compared to SG but no where near ID nonaligned nor neutral capabilities
@Zaft
"We are definitely not."
We are Western friendly but defo nonaligned in accordance with ASEAN charter. Even so we made our protests in UN against Israel/US genocide on Gaza.
@joe
Someone's forgot we supported OZ UN resolution to investigate wuhan and there's qew some NATO state are against the gaza invasion.
We have an active dispute with commie China thus either would we join and align with them nor we would be so dumb to be non aligned. Even ID is moving a bit from to the west from their previous positions.
@Zaft
Nope. On the contrary we also sought to bring Russia to UN court justice for MH17. That is a clear sign we are non aligned as we seek to tick off whichever bigger powers when they are committing atrocities whether they be Western or China or Russia. How much more nonaligned can we be other than steadfast neutral Switzerland(which isnt so neutral anyways)?
ID changing their stance has nothing to do with us nor any bearing onto us.