With big yellow giant up north ... Precaution was the first order of the game today ...
Yet , i still hold my breath until the EX's were landed and parked in our hanggar...
Atleast something was deeply fucked up with the rest " bintang " uniformed chasis armored vehicle manufactured locally were only the logical move forward....
Jokowi were known to give their ministry as much as autonomy and leeway they could possible could as long they can present their case convincingly and get their job done as quickly and as efficient ( in his understanding !! ) as they can ..
Olive green was their standard for a tropical jungle theatre
It's been a while indeed ... 😁
While not necessarily in MT variant . The kaplan class were my definite ( i would say perfect for their amphibious capability ...but it sound like a lame advertising 😁)
modern choice for filling the AFV...
Abrams EDA give away would be a quite hard to realized tho' ... while they would glady throw some of their old MRAP away as an EDA . AFV were on the different class alltogether .
Even they are starting to mass stocked them for the ( supposedly ) rainy day ahead .
While my own uncle survived that debacle . An ambush still took his left eye and a finger .
He still feel bitter to the departed mr Habibie tho' . While he understand the reasoning he still felt the pain of loosing so much dear to him while doing the tour there ..
The only reason he doesn't...
I highly questioned the word " best " there .... Kick back will always gonna be around . But , to sacrificing our own for a dubious product ?? That is a big no no ....
And they haven't coming clean to the public about their latest APC acquisition as yet ....
For now we still could rely on the bekang AL . But the next decade will demand more fast paced operation tempo . Hence the neccesity are obvious. . It's the money that always come into the question .... All of those LPD and BRS build up was allready a midle ground solution in such situation .
Now you mentioned that suddenly i remembered my country history.. that last ever threat coming from the sea was always come eastern seas not the northern one ...
Well , atleast we could piggybacking that stupid invader and thanks to their " sincere " effort we could somehow create something...
Well , i appologized for the deleted post . It feel like it was out of context and doesn't convey what i was trying to say .
To be honest .... I do share a lot of your sentiments . But , in case you haven't noticed it . The " pribumisasi '' proces are kind off stalled and lose it's direction ...