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The Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar on Wednesday launched INS Vagsheer, the sixth scorpene-class submarine under the Project-75, in Mumbai.The submarine, manufactured by the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), soon will undergo extensive ...

In December of 1971 as the war in then East Pakistan was reaching a turning point the United States, at the time allied with Pakistan sent in the Seventh Fleet with an Aircraft carrier to the Bay of Bengal.

MARITIME PATROL. A Navy sailor aboard BRP-Andres Bonifacio (PS17) scans the Sibutu passage with a pair of binoculars in this undated photo as the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM), through the Naval Task Force 61, deployed the patrol ship in the area. The Sibutu passage and the tri-border of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia are among the critical sea lanes flowing with an immense volume of trades. (Photo courtesy of NFWM) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM), thro...

RELIEF GOODS. Soldiers from the 47th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army on Friday (Dec. 31, 2021) unload boxes of relief goods from a Philippine Air Force's Blackhawk helicopter in one of the towns in Bohol. Governor Arthur Yap said more relief goods from Manila arrived in Bohol onboard Philippine Air Force C-295.(Photo from Governor Art Yap FB account) CEBU CITY - The provincial government of Bohol will ramp up the distribution of relief goods to localities hit by Typhoon Odette as m...

Humanitarian group Oxfam Pilipinas is calling on the government and the private sector to prioritize the distribution of shelter repair materials in areas devastated by Typhoon “Odette” (international code name Rai), warning that those living in congested evacuation centers are still in danger of contracting Covid-19. “Typhoon survivors already spent…

The last Plebiscite Committee leaves the distribution center in Buluan, Maguindanao for Tamontaka in Cotabato City a little past 6 a.m. on Monday as the first day of the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law starts on Monday, January 21. Today is #BangsamoroPlebiscite Day. Big day for everyone. Good luck to all. https://t.co/lBdPD90Ehb pic.twitter.com/0LQltCm1Ze — COMELEC (@COMELEC) January 20, 2019 Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez said over the week...

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, says none of the over 1,000 rehabilitated ex-Boko Haram fighters have been recruited into the Nigerian military. Irabor said at the Stakeholders’ Meeting of Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC) on Tuesday in Abuja, that Nigeria would never recruit any ex-fighter into its military. The CDS, represented by…

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, says none of the over 1,000 rehabilitated ex-Boko Haram fighters have been recruited into the Nigerian military.

TESTFIRE. Two sailors from the Philippine Navy man a machine gun in a test-firing activity onboard the Patrol Craft 396 BRP Abraham Campo in the seawater off Camotes Islands in Cebu province on Wednesday (Nov. 24, 2021). A notice to all mariners was issued prior to the live-fire exercise by the Naval Task Force 50. (Photo courtesy of Naval Forces Central's Public Affairs Office) CEBU CITY - The Philippine Navy in the Visayas successfully test-fired naval armaments off the coast of Camotes Is...

Navy rescues Malaysians, Filipinos in Tawi-tawi