The Singapore Ministry of Defense has announced two additional Type 218SG air independent submarines have laid down. The steel cutting ceremony of the new submarines held 12th January.

The contract for additional submarine construction was signed in May 2017. It is stated that the first two submarines ordered in 2013 and they will be delivered in 2021 and 2022, and the construction processes of the platforms continuing at different levels. Additional submarines will be delivered in 2024.

The Type 218SG submarines will replace the Challenger Class submarines that have been in use for 50 years. The new submarines are 70 meters long and have 2000 tons of displacement.