Singapore needs to monitor the 500 mile long Straits of Malacca

‘U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. hopes to pitch its
high-altitude military drones to Singapore to help the city-state better
monitor air and sea traffic at the Strait of Malacca, one of the
world’s busiest trade corridors….
 
“The need to be able to have very long-range intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance capability to monitor all that traffic… suggests that
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