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The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Act, [1] officially designated as Republic Act No. 7898, [1] was a Philippine law that was enacted on February 23, 1995, by President Fidel V. Ramos.
3,000 acquired by Armed Forces of the Philippines in 2017, for issue to all service branches. Majority went to the Philippine Army. [101] [102] AFP ordered 60,000 units under AFP 0.45 caliber Hammer Fired Pistol acquisition project, majority expected to go to the Philippine Army. [103] Glock 17 Austria: Semi-automatic pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum
MANILA (Reuters) -Global defence contractors put their advanced hardware on display as the Philippines embarks on the latest phase of a multi-billion-dollar effort to modernise its military at a ...
The Philippine armed forces said on Saturday it would again seek to resupply troops stationed in a rusty World War 2-era ship on a reef in the South China Sea, after China blocked a previous ...
The armed forces of five countries conducted joint maritime exercises in a portion of the South China Sea on Saturday as China carried out its own military drills in the disputed waterway.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is also another attached agency to the Armed Forces of the Philippines, but due to the civilian nature of the PCG functions led to the separation of the Coast Guard from the Philippine Navy on March 30, 1998, by virtue of Executive Order 475 signed by President Fidel Ramos. The Order effectively transferred the ...
On Tuesday, Blinken stressed that deal was "ironclad", adding that it extended to armed attacks on the Philippine armed forces, public vessels and aircraft, including those of its coast guard ...
C-295W of the Philippine Air Force assigned to 220th Airlift Wing of the Air Mobility Command. Several air assets acquired by the Philippine Air Force through the original AFP Modernization Program of 1995 were the AW109 armed scout helicopters, and airlift assets like the Airbus C295 and CASA C212 Aviocar.