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Philippine Navy to start upgrade of its three Del Pilar-class frigates Philippine Navy to start upgrade of its three Del Pilar-class frigates Monday, 25 January 2021 18:50 According to information published by the Asia Pacific Defense Journal on January 22, 2021, the Philippine Navy expects to start the upgrade of its three Del Pilar-class frigates within the year in collaboration with the South Korean company Hanwha Systems. (Picture source Twitter Max Montero) In August 2019, S...

A Look Back at the Air Domain Procurements of the Polish Armaments Inspectorate. The Polish MoD’s armament procurement body, also known as the Armament Inspectorate, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. The body has begun its activities back on Jan. 1. 2011. The entity, over the last decade, has spent 72.9 bn. zlotys (USD 19.6 bn) on armament procurements – as the release issued by Krzysztof Płatek, spokesman for the entity, states. Out of that amount, PLN 39.3 bn. has been alloc...

Another fight? so i think the -- the focus should be and the questions we have is what does he do when he meets with macron? when will he do when he meets with merkel? will there be more prodding? and to what extent is the president going to stay focused on the nato summit? and to what extent is he going to be talking about impeachment? impeachment clearly on his mind. and you see the -- the latest tactic from the white house is say, look, democrats shouldnt be holding these hearings while the p...

Uphold article five of the nato charter which an attack on one is an attack on all, in a common defense article, whether or not the president of the united states would uphold that, that we did not get an answer to. but the president was asked from steve holland at reuters about syria, the president once again saying that he is inclined to pull the troops out of syria, although another point during the press conference in his prepared remarks you you remember he said that were not going to stop ...

>> on hold because of these sanctions. admiral, there is some concern that president trump did reiterate the commitment to article 5 of nato, the mutual defense article. but there is some -- is there any validity to vladimir putins concern and russias concern that really its surrounded by pro-western nato countries with guns and tanks and planes on or very close to the russian border for much of its western border? >> >> ali, you bring up a point, president trump needs to understand the mentalit...

>> reporter: what nato leaders want to hear, stephanie, ive spoken to a nato official, is a reiteration of what secretary mattis and secretary tillerson and mike pence has said, that donald trump does not think nato is obsolete. but theres really a spectrum here in europe. speaking to this official talking about how in the eastern part of nato, those 28 countries closer to russia, they want to hear it more forcefully from trump. when you get further west, some of them are content with what weve ...