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Formerly US Coast Guard cutters of the Hamilton-class, granted to the Philippine Navy as part of US Military Assistance Program. The first ship BRP Gregorio del Pilar was handed over by the US Coast Guard to the Philippine Navy on 13 May 2011, and commissioned on 14 December 2011. Currently the 3 ships of the class are being used to train the ...
Philippine Navy AW109 during flight operations aboard the USS Green Bay. AW159 Wildcat helicopter of the Philippine Navy (PN) armed with K745 Blue Shark torpedoes taken at the Philippine Fleet Defense Expo (PFDX) 2023. The Naval Air Wing has 33 naval air assets consisting of 25 manned aircraft and 8 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Stricken in 1953, believed to be rebuilt to PGM-33-class and delivered back to Philippine Navy in 1954 as RPS Camarines Sur (PG-48). [41] [11] RPS Bohol: USS PC-1131: PS-22 C-22 2 July 1948 1969 Scrapped in 1969 [42] [22] [11] RPS Zamboanga del Sur: USS PC-1133: PS-23 C-23 2 July 1948 16 November 1956 Stricken from Philippine Navy list on 16 ...
[5] [45] More being planned as the navy transfers more gun mounts to the PMC. Oerlikon 20 mm gun Switzerland/ United States: Anti-Aircraft gun: Single Naval Mk. 10: No more than 127 units: Formerly ship-mounted anti-aircraft guns, transferred to the PMC. Mounted on M35 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton trucks. [5] [45] M2 Browning United States: Heavy machine ...
She was commissioned as BRP Tagbanua (AT-296) together with other naval assets on a ceremony in Manila on 14 December 2011. [5] In April 2016, in line with the Philippine Navy Standard Operating Procedures #08, the craft was reclassified from Auxiliary Transport (AT) to Landing Craft (LC), and its hull number changed from AT-296 to LC-296.
Japan led an annual multinational naval exercise that included the Philippines as an observer for the first time, as Filipino coast guard vessels are increasingly harassed by China in the disputed ...
Tarriela has been a vocal advocate for strengthening maritime security in the Philippines. In March 2020, he published an analysis calling for the strategic recalibration of the Philippine Navy to address China's maritime actions in the South China Sea. His recommendations included: [3] Modernization of naval assets; Enhanced operational readiness
BRP Tarlac (LD-601) is the lead ship of her class of landing platform docks in service with the Philippine Navy.She is the second ship to be named after the Philippine province of Tarlac, one of the provinces considered to have significant involvement in the Philippine Revolution of independence against Spain.