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The same Pinoys who claimed PH Military was the strongest ASEAN military in the past, are probably also the same persons who would happily claim that Philippines was the second most developed Asian countries after Japan in the past, and claim that Manila was the most beautiful Asian capital city and so on.Sometimes it is getting old and annoying when some pinoy said they got ultimate Armed forces among Asian countries in the past, well they dont see this kind of forces threaten their country in the past
The most frequent foreigners i interact both in my profession & as defence enthusiast is Philippines. It's not the 1st time i've heard the same myth of 60s Philippines military forces and frequently i counter them with existence of something most visible and threatening which ever existed once in Southeast Asia country, 12 Whiskey Class submarines which were uncomparable in 60s, Sverdlov Class light cruiser ( though IMO, in dawn of missile era the cruiser was late by 20 years of existence ) and Tu-16 strategic bombers with long range Kernell anti-ship missiles. Now it seems the myth is fading away knowing south of them, there was force far greater than they could ever have back then.Sometimes it is getting old and annoying when some pinoy said they got ultimate Armed forces among Asian countries in the past, well they dont see this kind of forces threaten their country in the past
The same Pinoys who claimed PH Military was the strongest ASEAN military in the past, are probably also the same persons who would happily claim that Philippines was the second most developed Asian countries after Japan in the past, and claim that Manila was the most beautiful Asian capital city and so on.
At least they are not THAT delusional like the other neighbor, and less likely to confront Indonesia in their claims, but there's no denying that even their claim of the supposedly "lost" (the truth is, it never exist in the first place) titles is kinda annoying, that somehow Philippines was the "best" in everything, before ....."insert a scapegoat here, anything except their own self"...happened. Well, glad that they are a cooperative neighbor of Indonesia, and that we also didn't have much dispute with them, but judging of how "katak dalam tempurung" they can be, we need to have a high tolerance towards bullshits when interacting with them.
The most frequent foreigners i interact both in my profession & as defence enthusiast is Philippines. It's not the 1st time i've heard the same myth of 60s Philippines military forces and frequently i counter them with existence of something most visible and threatening which ever existed once in Southeast Asia country, 12 Whiskey Class submarines which were uncomparable in 60s, Sverdlov Class light cruiser ( though IMO, in dawn of missile era the cruiser was late by 20 years of existence ) and Tu-16 strategic bombers with long range Kernell anti-ship missiles. Now it seems the myth is fading away knowing south of them, there was force far greater than they could ever have back then.
Not total reverse engineering just to make it more palatable to TNI AL taste & doctrine.that's what i thought , it failed two times during our naval drill (first failed to launched at time , the second one failed in flight) that's why im very skeptical (i rather think we should focused on AV-TM 300 from avibras)
Looking at their tendency, they are quite adventurous and got knack to bully someones weaker than them, but god bless us as they are quite fractured and not doing so well in many areas including defense sector.
Vietnamese on other hands focused purely on economy (industry especially heavy industry and auto) , education and defense matter. They are bona fide trouble maker in the region aside from their big bully brother from the North.
Instead of Sverdlovv class cruiser, the most potent Surface fleets we had is combination of 8 ships Skory class destroyer and 8 Riga class frigate, along with Two units Almirante class and two unit Albatros class corvettes. This combined with squadrons of Komar class missile boats and numerous Motor Torps Boats, became the most lethal surface forces even among big boys in the region. Not even Indian Navy can content with that kind of forces.
I'm curious of how the today's equivalent of our peak strength in the 1960s will look like? such as how many Ivers, PKRs, Nagapasa, F-16, IFX etc..etc...?
We had that much fire power because we have reasons, and now in the 21st century if you want Indonesia to wake from it's slumber and flex it's muscle Indonesia need reasons and that would be from external.
North/south/west
I'm curious of how the today's equivalent of our peak strength in the 1960s will look like? such as how many Ivers, PKRs, Nagapasa, F-16, IFX etc..etc...?
I would take Ticonderoga as equivalent of Sverdlovv class, meanwhile FREEM or Horizonte class as equivalent of Skoryy class, Formidable class as equivalent of Riga class, Scorpene class as equivalent of Whiskey class.
Oh forgot it, we got Tu 16 which should be brand new USSR heavy bomber, i would take Tu 160 white swan as their current equivalent. For beagle fleet i would take either F 15X or Rafale naval version as they are quite new at that time. And for mig 21, i will take either Typhoon or F16V as current contemporary.
Thats kinda overkill at current time, but one thing as a note we spend around 60- 75 percentage of at that time budget for military spending (from 1959-1965) and if we take current budget it would be crazy way to spent your budget