Overview
- The State Department approved the combined Foreign Military Sale on June 30, bringing the total to 67 AGM-114R Hellfire missiles and estimating the package at US$22.3 million.
- Lockheed Martin is named as the principal contractor and the sale includes spare parts, five years of logistics support, launcher reprogramming, maintenance, software support, training and technical publications.
- Singapore’s Ministry of Defence says the missiles will support Republic of Singapore Air Force training and operational needs and will be fitted to AH-64D Apache attack helicopters.
- The notice to Congress activates the statutory review window, generally 30 days, after an earlier US$12.4 million case that did not meet the notification threshold was combined with the new 24-missile request.
- The transaction continues a pattern of US arms cooperation with Singapore intended to strengthen partner readiness and ties in the Indo-Pacific and follows other recent US defence sales to the city state.