S’pore commissions high-tech underground ammunition storehouse

S’pore commissions high-tech underground ammunition storehouse

By Chew Wui Lynn

SINGAPORE: Singapore has achieved another world’s first in the form of its military’s Underground Ammunition Facility (UAF).

Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean, who commissioned the S$36 million facility on Friday, called it an “engineering achievement” that took 10 years to complete.

Situated at the old Mandai quarry, it is the first large-scale underground facility to be designed and built within a densely developed area.

Stackable containers within the facility ensure that space is fully utilised, and the system is automated so that ammunition can be retrieved and sent out to the field in a short time.

The granite caverns also offer natural insulation, cutting by half the energy required to cool the contents and minimise the risks associated with ammunition storage.

The underground system replaces the old Seletar East ammunition depot.

By building the facility below ground, about 300 hectares of land - or the equivalent to 400 football fields - are freed above ground for other developments.

- CNA/ir
Source : Channel NewsAsia - 07 March 2008

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