More than 30 years later, Cope Thunder, a US-led large-scale multinational air combat exercise regularly held in the Philippines, is making a comeback amid concerns by the two allies over an increasingly aggressive China. | FMangosingINQ /PDI
This year’s Cope Thunder will be held twice, with the first scheduled May 1 to 12 and the second, from July 2 to 21.
From 1981 to 1983, Matias took part in Cope Thunder, which was sometimes held twice a year. Though the PAF’s glory days and reputation for air supremacy in the region had started to wane from the 1970s, the force made up for it with good training, he said. Back then, a Chinese threat was nowhere in their minds, Matias said, nor did he foresee that Beijing would one day turn into Washington’s biggest rival. “It’s the Russian intrusions we were guarding against,” he said.
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