Quote Originally Posted by orly_andico
the navy is now assembling/manufacturing small patrol boats similar to that dvora in cavite! it's a licensed design of vosper-thorneycroft, a UK company if i recall correctly.

the peacock boats are actually quite decent, they have a guide-by-wire OTO melara 76mm autocannon, which is plenty for whacking abu solaiman and his gang. there was even a plan to arm the peacocks with penguin antiship missiles (making them, in theory, capable of cripping a carrier).

but see where all of that got us... nowhere. the navy can't even maintain the peacocks with their base armament. this, in spite of the fact that the brits gave us all the blueprints for the three boats (actually they're more of corvettes).
do we even have simulators here? yun pang F-16, pang F-5 etc. that alone costs millions di'ba. at least mas ok mag-train dun kahit lam beses mo i-crash, demerit lang sa mga trainee pero wala financial loss in terms of crashes.