The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has received four ScanEagle unmanned aerial systems (UAS) from the United States military, according to the US Embassy on Thursday.
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President Rodrigo Duterte has restored a pact governing the presence of US troops in the Philippines, the two countries’ defence secretaries announced on Friday, retracting a decision that had caused increasing concern among policymakers in Washington and Manila.
The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) provides rules for the rotation of thousands of US troops in and out of the Philippines for war drills and exercises. It has assumed additional importance as the United States and its allies contend with an increasingly assertive China, particularly in the disputed South China Sea.
“Let me thank President Duterte for his decision to fully restore the visiting forces agreement,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Friday in a joint press briefing with his Philippine counterpart, Delfin Lorenza.
Manila aims to acquire one BrahMos missile battery
11 March 2021
by Gabriel Dominguez
Philippine Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenzana has said that his country is currently planning to acquire only one battery of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles from India, according to local media reports published on 10 March.
The state-owned Philippine News Agency (PNA) quoted Lorenzana as saying that the battery, which is set to be operated as a land-based coastal defence system, will consist of “three systems”. A battery typically consists of three mobile launchers, each of which is fitted with tracking systems and two or three missile tubes.
Philippine Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenza has been quoted by local media as saying that Manila is planning to acquire only one BrahMos missile battery for the AFP. (Janes/Patrick Allen)