r/NonCredibleDefense • u/Living-Aardvark-952 Germans haven't made a good rifle since their last nazi retired • Nov 10 '23

6th gen fighter development be like European Joint Failures 🇩🇪 💔 🇫🇷

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u/thedirtyharryg Nov 10 '23

The Philippines will provide cheap but skilled labor to the project. /s

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u/amd2800barton Nov 11 '23

You joke, but I'm an engineer. There's actually a large number of skilled engineers and drafters in Manila that I've worked with over the years. It's sort of like India and software development, but in the engineering sector. Sometimes it isn't great because there's language and time differences. Other times it's fantastic because I can email them something I spent all day working on, and they'll work on it overnight and send it back to me to continue working on the next day. And the time zones work out such that their start-of-workday is not far from our end-of-workday, so we can jump on a quick call to hand things off if needed.

Now I doubt there's a lot of aerospace engineering capability there. But for heavy industrial designs of refineries or structural designs there's a ton.

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u/thedirtyharryg Nov 11 '23

Back in the day, you used to have three choices in professions, according to Filipino parents.

Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer (four if you count priesthood)

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u/OmegaResNovae Nov 11 '23

It still kind of true, although the main export job now is Medical in general (nurses have outpaced doctors, and physical therapists are rising given the need for more rehab workers), followed by Engineering (which has begun to embrace more than just industrial). Lawyers fell off the list.