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Made by Orient Craft and used by Special Forces Regiment. 13 meters long, 7-tons patrol and support boat. Riverine Patrol Boat Philippines: Riverine patrol boat: Standard: 1: Used by Special Operations Command 4th Special Forces Battalion. At least 15 meters long, armed with 12.7mm machine guns. Used for patrol and ferrying troops.
India: Order placed for 72,400 units of SIG 716i model. In December 2019, the first lot of 10,000 rifles was delivered to the Indian Army’s Northern Command. [19] SIG Sauer also confirmed that delivery of the first order has already been completed. [20] Another batch of 70,000 rifles was cleared for order in December 2023.
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Philippines: assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: M16A1 >30,000 Current standard-issue rifle, either made by Colt USA or Elisco Tool (Elitool) Philippines. 30,000 units were handed-over to the PNP on loan from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, several are with the PNP-SAF. Norinco CQ China: assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: CQ-A5b 6000 [67] [68]
The hull number's use of "PG" indicates that the boats are classified as Patrol Gunboats based on Philippine Navy's 2016 naming classification standards. In November 2022, Rear Admiral Toribio Acaci indicated that the service plans to acquire a total of 15 more Acero-class / Shaldag Mk. V patrol gunboats in the near future. [4] [10] [11]
The ships making up this class actually came from different classes of former US Navy ships using a common hull: Admirable-class minesweepers, PCE-842-class patrol craft escorts, and PCE(R)-842-class rescue patrol craft escorts. The ships were handed over by the US government as part of Military Assistance, either directly to the Philippines ...
The BRP Hilario Ruiz (PC-378) is the eighth ship of the Jose Andrada class coastal patrol boats of the Philippine Navy.It is part of the first batch of its class ordered through US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) in 1990, and was commissioned with the Philippine Navy on 1 June 1995.
Corporal Gener Tinangag, PN (Marines) was a Philippine Marine Corps enlisted personnel and a posthumous recipient of the Philippines' highest military award for courage, the Medal of Valor. [ 5 ] Then Private First Class Tinangag was an assistant automatic rifleman with the Special Operations Platoon (SOP), Marine Battalion Landing Team (MBLT ...