"We are always looking at ways to enhance relationships with other air forces," says RSAF chief Maj Gen Raymund Ng. A key opportunity to do this will be when air force chiefs gather in Singapore at next year's Millennium Air Power Conference (MAPC), to be held in conjunction with the Asian Aerospace 2000 show, on 21 February.
The MAPC will examine the development of air power in the 21st century. Gen Ng says that today's air forces face a "revolution in military affairs", with the increasing impact of new information technology on the battlefield, and the impending arrival of weapons such as uninhabited combat air vehicles. "I will try to challenge the audience into thinking how old ideas will be impacted by the paradigm change in the third millennium," he says.
The audience will comprise high level air force delegations and captains of industry. Sixty air forces have been invited. Invitations have also been extended to navy and army chiefs, as well as chiefs of defence forces. Confirmed speakers include chiefs of the Australian, Chilean, French, Israeli and US air forces.
Source: Flight International