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Two newly commissioned gunboats of the Philippine Navy acquired from Israel are set for deployment to the West Philippine Sea where they would help in maritime law enforcement as well as in disaster response and humanitarian operations, President Marcos said yesterday.

The acquisition of submarines for the Philippine Navy remains part of the plan President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said yesterday with offers from different countries along with domestic assembly and construction of naval assets.

Inset photo shows President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., joined by Speaker Martin Romualdez (left) and Defense acting Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr.

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Bacolod Councilor Al Victor Espino (third from left), with SSTON chairman Albert Villanueva, FEBACDA president Elizabeth Katalbas,

THE Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) are working together to strengthen their public information capabilities by enhancing information exchange and linkages among the three agencies. The BCDA, AFP and DND are currently at the forefront of…

The DOTr is considering the transition to EVs for public transpo to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

In April 2009 Bath and Ingalls agreed to the Navy's surface combatant plans, thus heralding a significant restructuring within the American naval shipbuilding community. Under the agreements, the USA would end production at 3 Graf Spee sized

The government has lowered its target of consolidating jeepney drivers and operators into cooperatives and corporations by the end of 2023 — a policy being pushed alongside the much-contested phaseout of the "hari ng kalsada."

/PRNewswire/ -- The "Military Command & Control Systems (C2) - Market and Technology Forecast to 2031" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.coms...

We need to beef up our own defense capability to deal with any external threat even as we have to