For the longest time, the Philippine Air Force  (PAF) has been the most pathetic branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Compared to the country’s neighbors, our poor excuse of an air force—with its obsolete jets, Vietnam War-era helicopters, and training planes that frequently crashed—looked the least prepared to protect a nation’s skies.

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