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FILIPINO and American military aircraft conducted air combat and maritime interdiction tactics in the Visayas and Mindanao as part of the aerial exercises of Cope Thunder 2023-2.
U.S. forces are back in the Philippines for another round of joint exercises with their Filipino counterparts as Washington and Manilla expand cooperation. Marine Aviation Support Activity 2023 and Cope Thunder 2023-2 kicked off last week. Both sets of drills are now underway across the Philippines, keeping up an almost continuous series of U.S.-Philippine military […]
A day after the country marked the seventh year of the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration award that junked China’s expansive claims over the West Philippine Sea (WPS), combined Filipino and American troops sustained their scheduled series of exercises on Thursday. The Marine Aviation Support Activity (MASA) 23 involving the…
The Philippine Air Force on Tuesday said the reported increased presence of US aircraft in the country was due to the conduct of the 2023 Cope Thunder exercise.
The military has tripled its deployment and presence in the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) this year as it sustained its steady shift to external defense operations (ESO) from internal security operations (ISO) amid the continued decline of the communist-led insurgency. The status of deployment in the KIG was shared by…