SINGAPORE: A giant balloon, equipped with sophisticated radar equipment, will watch over Singapore from early next year.
The 55m-long helium-filled teardrop, known as an aerostat, will hover at around 600m –more than twice the height of UOB Plaza One, Singapore’s tallest building. It can spot hostile threats from as far as 200km away, double the distance covered by the Republic’s ground radars.
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