New Kia military trucks from Korea

**pup2** · December 24th, 2007 03:39 PM

I'm sure they'll perform well. Looks kinda small though (parang pickup na malaki or HUMVEE instead of 6x6) and old schoolish. Maging 'in' din kaya ito gaya ng hummer?

**laklak** · December 24th, 2007 04:49 PM

tama yan, atleast they probably got this cheaper than getting similarly spec'd vehicles from the US or Europe.

As for pinoys designing their own, I dont think it is feasible since our only customer would be the Philippine Military. I doubt other countries would buy from us, and if ever some country would, it would probably just be an insignificant number. So it would just be a waste of money to invest in this. I remember watching a docu a few years back about our army developing short range missiles during the marcos era, i just wasnt sure if it was successful.

We have the talent, yes, but is there a need for us to produce this things? I think the answer is no.

**AG4** · December 25th, 2007 03:58 PM

I saw one of those running around here, with another military vehicle...

Its based on the old Jeep Military M-715 Series trucks...

First time I saw it, I told my brother, that looks like an old Jeep truck in mint condition... but the grill looked different. So the one I saw last week was just a Kia clone after all.