Unmanned ground vehicles armed with machine guns and micro aerial drones will be next newfangled things the Singapore military will employ alongside human soldiers.

These warfare equipment for the next generation of Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) were revealed during the Budget debate in Parliament by the Ministry of Defence on Friday, March 3.

In April, the DSO National Laboratories will house a robotics laboratory to design and build these robots.

Data analytics to enhance counter-terrorism operations will also aid the next generation of SAF. This includes the integration of data from multiple sources, such as cameras and ground sensors from various agencies .

The Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) will develop these capabilities by setting up an Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

It was also announced in Parliament that a new training ground roughly the size of Bishan town will be built in western Singapore to let soldiers hone their urban fighting skills in real-life settings.

This 88ha area, dubbed the Safti City, will allow soldiers to train in a dense urban environment that closely resembles Singapore's landscape, such as basement carparks, dense clusters of shop houses, high-rise interconnected buildings, a bus interchange, a MRT station with multiple surface exits and low-rise residences.

It will be completed in the west of the country in 10 years, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in Parliament.

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