you know what surprises me most about that picture? someone in Asian manufacturing bothering to use a oil boom.
Thank you for posting this!
hmmmm....... not to shabby for Moslems
Perhaps of interest.
Wow, 90 whole bucks! Get my checkbook!
Wasn't Indonesia overwhelmingly Catholic before WWII?
Those yards can put out some decent corvettes and frigates.
But make no mistake...the Philippines are cash poor and this yard won becasue of pricing. The Philippines will get a decent product for the money...but they are way behind the game in having any hope of facing down the chinese government who are putting out light firgates like these from four of their own different yards right now producing eight of them per year.
Their larger frigates have been pumped out at two-three per yeras for the last ten years, and their newer destroyers, well they are building them at a rate of 2+ per year.
The Philippines may develop a half way decent trip wire of a couple of new frigates and 3-4 old US Coast Gaurd vessels they have lightly armed...but they will have to depend on the US to do any heavy lifting.
The Japanese are building up rapidly. The Australians are building up...maybe not rapidly, but with some very decent equipment.
...and the Vietnamese, of all of the nations with South China Sea diputes have built the best naval assets of any of these smaller nations.
They have now purchased and built 6 improved Kilo Class diesel/electric subs, six Gephard lass frigates, they are building four Signa class frigates, and they have built six of their new very advanced Tarantul corvettes, each with sixteen very powerful Surface to surface nti-shipping missiles. They could make anything the Chinese want to do to the Vietnamese very expensive for them.
The US, Australia, India, and Japan, need to form a strong defensive military alliance with several of these nations. The output of all of them woulld eclipse anything the Chinese could produce...but they would have t be serious about it because thwe Chinese certainly are.