Thanks to a prospering economy, small Singapore can afford a sizeable maritime defence force. And it has further ambitions.
The island city-state of Singapore is the smallest country in Southeast Asia in terms of area. The multi-ethnic state - officially known as the Republic of Singapore - has an area of 734.3 square kilometres. It has a population of around 5.9 million and is economically and technologically advanced.
With a per capita gross domestic product of around USD 133,000 in 2023, Singapore ranks third in the world. Singapore's total gross domestic product of USD 753,273 billion puts it in 38th place. Around 4.9 per cent of this is spent on the armed forces. These consist of the Air Force, Army, Digital and Intelligence Service and the Navy, officially known as the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). It comprises
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