If only the real war were as straight forward as you think it is . Put the midget's base in the malacca you said ?? In this age of JDAM and drones what would denied them this target in the first second of the conflict ?? While there is a merit in the idea the lack of endurance for loitering the...
By tonnage we are talking about space availibility . Which is translate into more quarter , provision and munition . And energy density/more battery . Most of war time was spent on idling for opportunities . If you spent your battery capacity with 3 day trip to reach your destination within 1...
There is a certain concensus among the old guard
There is a certain concensuss on the old guard political establishment on how to insert/promote our national identity by solely speak bahasa in the UN base occasion and that started by the late soehartoe . On how that will pan out in the future...
You are forgetting the real question here ...
How about her submerge endurance ?? That the real deal . Without atleast weekly time of submerge endurance all of those specc are meaningless in our theatre of operation .
To be honest in my humble opinion we do should operate 2 different class of sub ..
212 class of tonnage and ocean going class one .
And f##k no to midget class wasting away money and time without a meaningfull capabilities ..
Some people still couldn't see the big pictures and things do get worsened by the rampant corruption within the top brass old guard . Make no mistakes ... Most of our midle officer are quite progressive and visionary but they stilted as now .
Not to mention most of our Industrial base are all...
As an Indonesian i can attested that the islamic convertion were mostly came through a peacefull means . Before Islam the archipelagos were allready introduced to Hinduism and budhism wisdom and teaching yet we found them lacking and then obviously it was Islam that get stuck and indentified...
To be honest ...all of this " filler " talks start to annoy me . The tilte of the thread was a military operation . Why that turn into pseudo history class of what could have been ...
Seriously people .... Get a life will you ..
Hmm ... Kind of selectives and cherrypicking argument since you fail to mention what was happening in the background of that incident . Did a crusade series was ring a bell for you ??
Hey , don't shoot the messenger here .... 😂😂
As i said ... Serious consideration yet it isn't final . Too much thing to consider . Believe it or not commonality themes ( yeah , i couldn't believed it either so take this with some spoonfull of salts ) was mentioned in the arguements . Let just...
As of now ... 105 mm was kind of irrelevant . Truth to be told with the 155 mm was getting lighter 105 was redundant and money waste . Even our marines was considering their towed artillary plan transition into Dana SPG quite seriously .
Sorry , kind of forget about the drone there .. Drone was...
What we need in papua theater is a nimble yet enough juice small to medium chopper with minigun as rapid response unit . A heavy lift chopper as logistics . And lots of komodo's class vehicles with RCWS and lots of night time gogles for the infantry .
The rest ?? Waste of tax payer money ...
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This the age of internet there isn't much anything that could be covered for long .
Not to mention the reputation for holding up their side of the agreement was a big deal in the global politics perception .
What's the big deal with M113 anyway ?? Blocky and hard to manouver in the papua's...