Originally posted by ninefold9:
Apparently you have not read my earlier post carefully but chose to
jump in blindly and answered hastily.
In my earlier post which I am reproducing it here in Red, I did not
state that Habibe is a [b]M'sian. Open your eyes big and
read it one more time: Hopefully these tanks will not leak in
water, like those in which ex-president Habibe purchased out-dated
World War II tanks from Germany.
In my earlier posting, I mentioned 2 issues. The lst one concerned
M'sia's intention to acquire tanks from Poland. The other was about
Habibe who most of us know him to be an Indonesian, procuring
German tanks from Germany.
For the millions who live in S.E. Asian countries and who have been
reading newspapers often and seeing Habibe's face on tv during
Suharto's time, we alll know him to be an Indonesian. There can be
no mistake about Habibe's nationality. You youself appear to be
'very blur'
Many of us who are living outside Indonesia are also aware that
Habibe was adopted by President Suharto's family, when he was a
young boy. In his adult life, Habibe spent some time in Germany and
was trained there as an Engineer.
For the time he spent in Germany, Habibe thought he had a good deal
when he settled on a fleet of dyfunctional German tanks from
Germany. unfortunately some of them were found to have leaked in
water.
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Just to put a halt on this WWII tank nonsense:
Indonesia did not buy any tanks from Germany.
The former East Germany however did supply Indonesia with a number
of secondhand warships which were deemed surplus to requirements.
These included 12 Frosch-1 class LSTs, 2 Frosch-2 class LSTs, 9
Kondor class minesweepers and 16 Parchim class corvettes.
The main addition to Indonesian armour in recent years was a small
number of secondhand BTR-50 APCs and BMP-2 IFVs from Ukraine, drawn
from former Soviet stock.
12 new-build BTR-80 APCs were also delivered from Russia in
2002.
