The real reason for the detention of the Terrex is now clear to me. What ever documentation that was supposed to be missing or nor missing is semi accurate. I believe the documentation for the armour vehicles to transit thru HKG is correct. But what was shocking was the accompanying boxes in the shipment, which contained cleaned and functional Fabrique Nationale 7.62mm GPMG machine guns, in good working condition, with spare barrels and all that. The HKG customs must have really been correct to assume that there was gun smuggling going on. If anyone in HKG or anyone at one of the transit stops along the route of the APL ship had gotten their hands on these machines guns, they would have a field day. These sort of machine guns must be personally escorted and should never leave the sight of the soldiers. In fact, they should have been air flown back to singapore rather then put on a slow boat. SAF and MINDEF must have been stupid out of their minds. The proof is in this picture showing Chief of Army MG Melvyn Ong supervising the unpacking of one of the boxes that was confiscated along with the Terrex. The picture clearly shows one personnel taking out a 7.62mm GPMG still wrapped in the plastic bag. Its the not butt stock version of the GPMG used in armour vehicles and you can see another spare barrel on the ground. The silver metallic rectangle you see thru the plastic bag is tray where ammo is fed in. As well, you can see the pistol grip of the machine gun.
