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Exercise Forging Sabre: Hard Hitting Force

Exercise Forging Sabre took place in the Arizona desert in December, with the RSAF putting all its aerial capabilities to the test.

Used for the first time in the RSAF’s “Forging Sabre” exercise, a 2,000-lb GBU-31 JDAM is being loaded onto an F-15SG.

By Chen Chuanren • Asia Correspondent

January 30, 2018

For two weeks between November 28 and December 13, 2017, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) brought all its American detachments, along with unmanned and army units, to bear at RSAF’s most complex military exercise. As part of an event codenamed Exercise Forging Sabre, multiple units descended upon the desert of Phoenix, Arizona, for the biennial exercise. They included 10 Boeing F-15SGs of Peace Carvin V (Mountain Home AFB), 10 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Fighting Falcons from Peace Carvin II (Luke AFB), six Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbows from Peace Vanguard (Silver Bell Army Heliport), three Boeing CH-47D Chinooks from Peace Prairie (Texas National Guard), and three IAI Heron 1 UAVs from Singapore.

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