Singapore in early talks on possible involvement in GCAP programme
Singapore has begun early discussions on possible involvement in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), Janes has been informed by a source close to the matter.
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1️⃣Deng Xiaoping’s phrase, 韬光养晦 has often been translated as ‘Hide your strength, bide your time’, when it should be understood as ‘conceal your talents, bide your time’. Singapore’s weapons purchases are low key as the SAF is maintaining a low profile, by concealing our…
Tough call, but unsurprising for the city state and refining hub. As Lee Kuan might have said, paying transit tolls would be a case of cutting off Singapore’s nose to spite its face.
For the, “Albo is a traitor for arresting Ben Roberts Smith” crowd purely because he is a veteran. What do you say to the 20 fellow soldiers who testified AGAINST him? Are they traitors also?!
The short history of HMS DARING
- 2003 First steel cut
- 2006 Launched
- 2009 Commissioned
- 2011 Fired first Sea Viper
- 2017-20 Laid up pending refit
- 2020 Refit starts
- 2021-22 PIP repair
- 2023-26 Completing refit
- ? Return to service
@ModernNavy@RoyalNavy@DefenceHQ
HMS SPEY is now alongside in Singapore at the British Defence Singapore Support Unit following trials and training between 21 March and 2 April in the South China Sea @ModernNavy@RoyalNavy
📍#Chile (🇨🇱)
The @FACh_Chile held the unveiling ceremony for the first T-40 Newén for the Chilean Air Force in its brand new scheme.
President @joseantoniokast was present for the ceremony.
📸: Aviation Videos y Foto
Unmarked A-26 Invader operated by Civil Air Transport, what would become Air America, during the covert CIA intervention in Permesta, Indonesia in 1958.
America: threatens to invade Greenland, mocks European soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, leaks intel to Putin, tarriffs Europe, starts an offensive illegal war in Iran and calls on NATO to clean up the mess
Europe: no
America: I can't believe you've done this
🚨 DARK FLEET TANKER OPERATING OFF 🇲🇾#MALAYSIA:
False flag. False name. False dimensions. No insurance. No safety management. 294 days at sea. 78 encounters with other suspect tankers in 2026 alone. Zero port calls.
HAI DA's permanent vessel ID — the number assigned by the International Maritime Organization, 9033787 — reveals that she's actually registered as the YU SHUN, an 88-meter chemical tanker. But on her AIS transponder (the tracking system that all vessels are required to broadcast), she identifies herself as "HAI DA," claims to be only 53 meters long, and flies a 🇹🇿Tanzanian flag that the IMO itself has determined is false. She's shrinking her profile by 40% and broadcasting a name that appears in no official registry.
Her owner is Collins Holding Inc, a shell company in 🇦🇮Anguilla that owns exactly two ships and discloses no beneficial owner. She carries no known liability insurance. And no company has been formally designated as responsible for her safety management since 2016 — meaning for a decade, nobody on shore has been accountable for whether this vessel is seaworthy, her crew is trained, or an oil spill gets reported.
Her flag history tells the story of how a legitimate vessel becomes a ghost:
- 🇰🇷 South Korea (2002–2016) — legitimate flag, reputable classification
- 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone (2016–2022) — flag of convenience
- 🇳🇺 Niue (Dec 2022) — micro-state registry
- ❓ Unknown (Jan 2023)
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania (2023–2025)
- 🚩 Tanzania FALSE (2025–present) — confirmed by the IMO as not genuinely registered
The last reputable safety body — Korea's classification society — walked away from the ship in 2016. Her last port state safety inspection was in February 2016. Ten years ago.
Since March 10, she's been parked at ~1.84°N, 104.73°E, just east of the #SingaporeStrait in 🇲🇾Malaysian waters, a known hotspot for illicit ship-to-ship oil transfers where enforcement has been undermined by trivial penalties and documented corruption. In 2026 alone, she's had 78 encounters with other tankers. She hasn't visited a single port.
Her most frequent encounter partners share the same red flags — flags of convenience, obscure ownership, and rendezvous lasting hours or days:
HAI YOU 168 🇸🇹 — 30 encounters
WEN SHENG 🇹🇿/🇧🇿 — 25 encounters
MT.FUYU 🇹🇿 — 23 encounters
HEBE 🇸🇹 — 14 encounters
FILENE 🇹🇿 — 9 encounters
At least three of these vessels are also broadcasting false identities. Some of these encounters last days — HAI DA sat alongside HANA I for three straight days in early March, and spent over 40 hours with FILENE across back-to-back encounters from April 3–5. These are not passing encounters. They are consistent with illicit ship-to-ship oil or fuel transfers.
So why is she still operating? Malaysia's maritime enforcement agency, the MMEA, has detained hundreds of vessels in its waters since 2021. But fines max out at roughly $50,000 per vessel — when a single illicit cargo transfer can be worth $130 million. And some MMEA officers in the unit responsible for this exact stretch of water have been convicted and charged with accepting bribes to look the other way.
HAI DA is one vessel. But she represents a system: aging tankers converted through shell companies and false flags into instruments of sanctions evasion, operating where enforcement is underfunded, penalties are trivial, and corruption is documented.
‼️She's been at it for years. She's out there right now.
Credit: Ship tracking by @StarboardIntel
Such a badly written piece that I don’t even know where to start. Reads more like agenda-driven commentary, and the writer’s claim of serving in the SAF and absence of any prior published work raises further questions. To think TVBS chose to give it some airtime
🇺🇸🇸🇬 The US State Department has approved a Foreign Military Sales case to Singapore for Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft P-8A and MK 54 Lightweight Torpedoes with an estimated value of 2.316 billion USD.
The package includes:
- four (4) P-8A patrol aircraft
- seven (7) Guardian laser transmitter assemblies for the AN/AAQ-24(V)N system
- seven (7) system processors for the AN/AAQ-24(V)N system with selective availability anti-spoofing modules
- eight (8) MK 54 MOD 0 lightweight torpedoes all up rounds
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