Singapore’s Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen visited India for a joint military training exercise from November 27 to 29.
He met with Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and signed a India-Singapore Bilateral Agreement for Navy Cooperation. The agreement focused on stepping up maritime cooperation between the navies of the countries in terms of regional security, logistics and drills & deployment of warships at each other’s naval facilities.
They also signed the revised Defense Cooperation Agreement (2015) to further strengthen the longstanding defense relationship between the Singapore Armed Forces and the Indian Armed Forces.
During his visit, Ng also flew India’s indigenously-built multi-role light fighter jet, Tejas at the Kalaikunda airbase.