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KRI IRIAN 201
with this tooI really hope that this beast goes head to head against Dutch carrier group, sadly the dutch quickly evacuated their carrier from West Papua.
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Luckily for us, it didn't happened. The sverdlov class are actually obsolete. The rusian are actually going to scrapped it if we didn't buy it. With the advent of carrier and naval air power era. A conventional/battleship era warship with its big turret and big guns like the sverdlov (kri irian) becomes irrelevantI really hope that this beast goes head to head against Dutch carrier group, sadly the dutch quickly evacuated their carrier from West Papua.
I really hope that this beast goes head to head against Dutch carrier group, sadly the dutch quickly evacuated their carrier from West Papua.
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Could be disaster for us.I really hope that this beast goes head to head against Dutch carrier group, sadly the dutch quickly evacuated their carrier from West Papua.
Could be disaster for us.
Sverdlov are known for the lack of air defense weapon, and Soviet cannot fully operate them as blue water power since the ships are heavily depends on protection from land-based air defense. Even at the time when we acquire RI Irian, Soviet already start scraping this class - it was built with WW2 tech.
Not to mention our capabilities to operate in terms of combined military ops during that time still questionable.
Yes we get lots of Migs and Naval weapon but in relative short periode, i dont think the Navy back then already have a combined ops doctrine. Remember during Arafura skirmish our Air Force cannot give protection to Yos Sudarso's squad.
Without interoperability, sending RI Irian can be disastrous, she can be sitting duck target for Dutch air fleet.
With our economy condition in that era i dont think we can mobilize our 'huge' military asset to mount an open / frontal conflict with the Dutch forces in Irian. Even if we managed to do that, we cant sustain it. Still lack of logistic hub, and combined operation capability.
All these goodies back in the 60's are part of the 'Mercu Suar' policy - something for psychological effect rather than real impact on the field.
True that..actually it was blessing for us the Dutch succumbs to International pressure instead trying to defend West Papua. When we look carefully our arsenal and military composition at the times we are still at infancy stages on how to conduct large scale military operation against near peer oposition. According to my opinions, the biggest weakness we had is the lack of infrastructure support and logistic hubs. Not to mention financial constraint and severe economic conditions we had at the time limiting our options to prolonged the open conflicts in foreign territory (remember Papua at the is as foreign as Australia to us regarding the vast differences with other Indonesia provinces).