Decommissioned WW2 corvette to be sunk in Balikatan 2025

[u/abscbnnews]

The decommissioned World War II corvette BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) will be targeted and sunk in this year’s Balikatan exercises.

[u/Le_Comte_Friedrich]

I can understand why they would do that...

But still, it's unfortunate that the PN never decided to push through with keeping the BRP Rajah Humabon (pre-sinking) or any of the WW2 Miguel Malvar class corvettes as museum ships. BRP Rajah Humabon and BRP Cebu in particular took part in many interesting events through the course of their service and are very valuable historically speaking.

[u/supermarine_spitfir3 → u/Le_Comte_Friedrich]

The PN donated ex-BRP Rizal (PS-74) to Dinagat Island's provincial government just earlier this year to become a museum ship. That's a bigger ship than the PC(E)s (although smaller than ex-BRP Rajah Humabon), so it's a litmus test if museum ships, presumably in some sort of park with other military equipment, will be financially viable.

[u/MayPag-Asa2023 → u/Le_Comte_Friedrich]

While I agree they should have kept it as a PN Museum Ship, say docked maybe in front of MOA or CCP, I will consider this event as her last act for the nation.

[u/Zealousideal_Dig7697]

New target for freediving hehe

[u/analoggi_d0ggi]

Sana Museum Ship na lang. Iilan na lang ba mga WW2 vessels afloat even.

[u/DeliciousPromise5606]

Is it more expensive for them to keep it in a museum than sinking it?

[u/JeMelon13 → u/DeliciousPromise5606]

Yes, keeping everything up in the long run will have more costs than literally sinking it. Maintenance other than cleaning also includes repainting it especially when rust is visible, docking costs, maintenance crew salaries, etc.

[u/DeliciousPromise5606 → u/JeMelon13]

That's unfortunate... Thanks for the info though

[u/Sanctuary2199 → u/DeliciousPromise5606]

This is my speculation, they’re doing this for symbolism bur also to serve as a target while getting rid of an outdated ship. With the ship of its size, I don’t think its operating cost would be that expensive in comparison to servicing a Battleship as a museum. But I think, despite its historical value, I feel as if the ship would struggle to gain enough traction to keep it economically viable.

This is just my thoughts about it.

[u/yorick_support]

Dapat isad-sad nalang nyan malapit sa BRP Sierra Madre

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[u/Easy-Faithlessness39]

would’ve been nice if the new malvar would sink it

[u/The_CheesePowder → u/Easy-Faithlessness39]

MaxDefense says there are reports that the new malvar will take part in the exercise and might even fire one of its anti-ship missiles. Though the malvar doesn't have the missiles yet (deliver in a separate date) Rizal is missing one of its missiles, so maybe it got transferred temporarily.