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| Phillipine Army tanks | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 14 2006, 07:10 AM (64,875 Views) | |
| tettet | Jan 14 2006, 07:10 AM Post #1 |
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I was wondering what kind of tanks and how many tanks and other armored fighting vehicle does the phillipines have? Also, are the tankers well-trained? Thank you. |
 
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| MSantor | Jan 14 2006, 08:20 AM Post #2 |
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TETTET, the Philippine Army has 41 Scorpion tanks as well as several other kinds of armored vehicles including US-made M113 Armored Personnel Carriers, Armored Infantry Vehicles (similar to the Korean KIFVs), Simba armored vehicles among others. On the other hand, the Philippine Marine Corps has its own armored vehicles with its Combat Support Brigade, with LAVs, gun trucks and the versatile old LVTH-6s. It would be better to do research BEFORE asking such a question on this forum. These links should help. http://www.timawa.net/gallery1.htm www.hueybravo.net http://www.hueybravo.net/Philippine%20Army%20Main.htm http://www.hueybravo.net/PhilippineMarines_Main.htm http://www.timawa.net/pmc.htm |
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| Lt.superman | Jan 19 2006, 09:06 PM Post #3 |
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maybe its time for the army to buy a bradley tank form the US its only 3.2 million it has 2.5mm cannon M242 bushmaster chain gun 7.62mn machine gun and a TOw missile with tubes and anther tank an LAV its $ 900,000 million its armaments M242 and 25mm chain gun excilent for mindanao well there are only tanks good in use here i hope the gov't buys this tanks for r army and marine crop  
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| GKB02 | Jan 20 2006, 09:10 AM Post #4 |
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the bradey is good, but i will root for more surplus M113 or brand new AIFV's... AIFV:   or the ASCOD:     |
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| GKB02 | Jan 20 2006, 09:14 AM Post #5 |
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or maybe we can build these:    hell yeah!! get some!!  
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| saver111 | Jan 20 2006, 01:51 PM Post #6 |
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Looks like a modified WW I tank with the latest equipments. http://members.aol.com/panzersgt/history/early/et5.html http://members.aol.com/panzersgt/history/early/et04.html http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/ww1/Mk4...apturedguns.jpg http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/ww1/WW1.html |
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| City Hunter | Jan 23 2006, 09:13 AM Post #7 |
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That WW1 tank upgraded to sci-fi levels is great but is still impractical for Philippine use. Consider the tracks being too exposed even with lots of turrets and guns. A RPG could easily immobilize it. It needs to be redesigned further. A good complement to it would be us using old WW2 bomber designs with lots of those turrets. Would make nice AC-130 type for us. What needs to be considered is how we'll fight in the future. Best move is to use smaller tanks like the Wiesel or the Scorpion and upgrade them with better guns like the Israeli HVMS. Then make them air transportable like on a modified Skycrane. That way, they can be deployed at a moment's notice. Imagine, a group of our upgraded Scorpions will be needed in Basilan again. These can be set into formation in an airbase where they'll be scooped by modified Skycranes. These Skycranes being modified with wings, better engines and VTDP can travel faster than the usual and arrive at the site. Since the Skycranes can deploy their cargo either from the air via powered hooks or like those on some sci-fi concepts they are exposed less to hostile fire. And since other Skycranes will also be deploying specialized pods the attacking force has a much greater chance of success. If we use the Bradleys, not only are they more expensive but harder to deploy with. Much better if its something that is cheap yet upgradable and something that which we could copy and make more of. The M113 is a nice platform too which can be made into different packages. Something like the MTLB of the Russians. |
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| Lt.superman | Jan 28 2006, 04:29 PM Post #8 |
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ya pero hindi na man real tank yan and if u think that tank will be create in the phil think again wala taga |
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| Marschall | Feb 11 2006, 07:11 AM Post #9 |
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Would you believe me if I sa we could buy >600 heavy tanks (T-80U/90;M1A2;Leopard 2A5/6) within 15 years time??? |
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| GKB02 | Feb 11 2006, 08:25 AM Post #10 |
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i really want to  but NO maybe 600 more V300, simba??, AIFV, M113 maybe some casspirs or weasel light tanks... |
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