Safti City

SAFTI City
Western Water Catchment in Singapore
Safti City training area in 2025
Site information
Type	Urban training facility
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Singapore Armed Forces
Open to the public	No
Location
Coordinates	1.36961°N 103.68162°E / 1.36961; 103.68162
Site history
Built	Phase 1: 2017 (2017)–2024 Phase 2: 2017–? (Under construction)
In use	Since October 2024
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	新加坡武装部队军训城
Hanyu Pinyin	Xīnjiāpō wǔzhuāng bùduì jūnxùnchéng
Literal meaning	Singapore armed forces military training city
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xīnjiāpō wǔzhuāng bùduì jūnxùnchéng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping san1 gaa3 bo1 mou5 zong1 bou6 deoi6 gwan1 fan3 sing4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Sin-ka-pho bú-chong pō͘-tūi kun-hùn-siâⁿ Tâi-lô Sin-ka-pho bú-tsong pōo-tūi kun-hùn-siânn Teochew Peng'im Sing1gia1bo1 bhu2zuang1 bou6dui7 gung1hung3sian5

Safti City is a Singapore armed forces training institute located in Western Water Catchment, Singapore.

History

The plan to build the facility was first publicly announced in parliament by then Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen on 3 March 2017. The budget for the facility was slated to be 900 million Singapore dollars. Phase 1 was officially launched on 19 March 2025 by Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen. The team behind the facility received defence tech award on 1 October 2025.

The SAF and PLA conducted an exercise together from 10th to 17th December 2025. The exercise involved 90 personnel from the SAF’s 3rd Singapore Division and 1st Commando Battalion, and 90 from the PLA’s Southern Theatre Command Army’s 74th Army Group.

Facilities

Phase 1

Phase 1 includes 71 buildings in the city, of which 43 are mid- to high-rise ones. One building is a recreation of a bus interchange, which had includes recreations of facilities such as boarding berths, escalator mock-ups and high ceilings which are typically common inside bus interchanges. Next to the interchange is a high-rise structure, a 12-storey office building recreation called Murai Tower, which simulates an office building. There are three 12-storey buildings in the city, with the other two simulating a residential block and a hotel. Sensors are dotted around the building in various areas such as along corridors, rooms and the lift which allows trainers to track each soldier’s position during a combat exercise. Devices marked in yellow and black are located on the exterior of buildings. Known as a “shoot through wall module”, they can simulate a wall “crumbling” when a soldier shoots at it. This adds to the realism of battle, as soldiers can no longer hide behind walls if they are “destroyed”.

There are also speakers that emit noises, such as blasts from an air strike, to keep soldiers on their toes. There are a total of around 11,000 such sensors and devices installed throughout SAFTI City, which help add to the realism of warfare and track the movement of soldiers. The area covered by this first phase is 17 hectares.

Phase 2

Phase 2 has yet to commence operation as it is still under construction.