The AFP should invest in sea drones

Almost four (4) years ago, I made this post.

And look at what the US is going to deploy in 2018.

The AFP can easily develop a cheaper and probably more stealthy version of this drone using the basic design of our traditional wooden "pump boats".

They just have to think outside the box and master the art of cyberwarfare.

Understanding Bud Dajo

To understand Bud Dajo, one must first know how it all started.  And it all started when a Filipino Moro named Pala ran amok in British Borneo (in short, he did unpleasant things to a lot of people with his heavy-bladed Barong).

To avoid being hanged and quartered by the British, he fled to his relatives in Jolo.  

So in today's terms, this is roughly the equivalent of Abu Sabaya and his ASG Clowns murdering Malaysians in Sabah, then fleeing to Basilan to avoid prosecution.

Probably at the request of the British, the American Military Government in Jolo tried to arrest Pala. Unfortunately, he managed to escape and eventually found his way to Bud Dajo, together with his relatives and followers.

Again, in today's terms, this is roughly the equivalent of Abu Sabaya and his ASG Clowns establishing their own fortress in the jungles of Basilan after committing crimes in Malaysia.

It appears, therefore, that Pala was merely a wanted mass murderer who cynically used his community as cannon fodder against American military might to prevent his arrest.

Does that represent a heroic stand against American Imperialism to you?

On Assassinations...

 

 

The easy way is always mined...

 

No cabinet positions to known Communists!

Communism is a global ideology. Its ultimate aim is to ovethrow the Capitalist System and establish its own World Order.

Philippine Communists are controlled by Communist China. Letting them control DSWD, DOLE, DAR & DENR is tantamount to letting these key national government agencies be controlled by Communist China.

In view of the on-going Creeping Invasion of the West Philippine Sea by Communist China, this would be a Clear-and-Present Danger to the National Security of the Republic of the Philippines.

No known Communist should be allowed to occupy a cabinet position in the Philippine National Government.

Who wants to deny Guided Missiles to the AFP?

One cannot avoid suspecting that the AFP Modernization is being deliberately sabotaged by certain unidentified China-Scared Forces to avoid offending Communist China... and justify inaction towards any Communist Chinese territorial moves. 

You can call it the "we cannot do anything because we have nothing defense".

This was done to our MRF Program...  

This was done to our Shore-Based Missile Program...

And this is now happening to our Guided Missile Frigate Program. India was just dragged into this mess.

Everytime "Guided Missile" appears in a planned AFP acquisition, strange decisions start to happen...

We don't need more ships, we need Anti-Ship Missiles

The Philippine Department of National Defense is about to buy two (2) naval frigates from India. It appears that the Indian bidder has outbid its South Korean and Spanish competitors.

To the layman that would make sense. After all, who would want to spend more for the same equipment? But are we really getting the same equipment? Did we really compare apples to apples here?

Clearly, this situation is not just like buying a Toyota from Dealer A instead of Dealer B. In fact, my greatest fear is that this will be a case of buying an Indian Ambassador instead of a South Korean Hyundai. All because the former is just much cheaper than the latter.

So I made a quick comparison of the as-deployed specs of the rumored offerings of each bidder, and here is what I found:

1. South Korea (Inchon-class frigate)

Displacement: 3,251 tons

Range: 4,345 nmi

Guided Missile (GM) Weapons: Anti-Ship Missiles (ASMs) or Cruise Missiles; Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs)

2. Spain (Avante 2200 Combatant corvette)

Displacement: 2,419 tons

Range: 3,500 nmi

GM Weapons: ASMs; SAMs

3. India (Kamorta-class corvette)

Displacement: 4,200 tons

Range: 4,500 nmi

GM Weapons: None (but claims to have plans for SAMs)

Based on their deployed capabilities, the Indian ship will have a good reason to be the cheapest. In its present deployed configuration, it has no guided missile capability whatsoever. Even if the Philippines is willing to spend for the upgrades, the most that can be done to upgrade the Indian ship is to install SAMs. And, in all likelihood, this would be of the short-range variety. There is no mention at all of ASMs.

ASM and SAM capabilities are what the Philippine Navy sorely needs right now in its naval confrontation with Communist China in the West Philippine Sea. Viewed from this perspective, therefore, this purchase of corvettes from India would not make strategic military sense.

We need surface ships that have ASM and SAM capabilities on a turnkey basis (similar to what Italy had offered us before). If the DND is not capable of buying these with the PN's PHP16 Billion (USD 355 Million) budget, we might as well use the money to install ASMs and SAMs on our three (3) Hamiltons.