Philippine Navy personnel aboard BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS16) operate a .50 caliber gun during a surface target shoot as part of the Balikatan Exercises' Gunnery Exercise (Multilateral Maritime Event) in San Felipe, Zambales on April 25, 2025. (Photo: AFP) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said...
Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong (CV-17) is detected by the Philippine Navy (PN) about 2.23 nautical miles southwest of Babuyan Island on April 22, 2025. (Photo: PN) The Philippine Navy (PN) said that the Chinese aircraft carrier detected within the country’s archipelagic waters was accompanied...
An Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) personnel receives hands-on instructions from his US counterparts on the FIM-92 Stinger missile system, learning about its components, proper handling, and tactical applications in air defense operations during a subject matter expert exchange on the use of...
A NMESIS launcher deploys into position onboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands for a live fire exercise as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021 in Kekaha, Hawaii on Aug. 16, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Major Nick Mannweiler) As part of this year’s Balikatan...
China on Tuesday, April 22, lambasted the Philippines and United States for the start of its military drills in the contested South China Sea, calling the three-week joint exercises as “detrimental” to regional stability and economic growth. AFP Chief General Romeo Brawner Jr. (left) unfurls...
AFP Chief General Romeo Brawner Jr. (left) unfurls the Balikatan Exercise flag during a kick-off ceremony at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on April 21, 2025 with Maj. Gen. Francisco Lorenzo (middle), commander of AFP Education, Training and Doctrine Command (AFPETDC) and Philippines Exercise...
A Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) launcher deploys into position onboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands in Kekaha, Hawaii on Aug. 16, 2021 for a live-fire exercise as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021. (Photo courtesy of US Marine Corps) A powerful...
The Philippines and Australia will increase their joint military exercises this year by twice as much as last year. Australia's defense government, in an advisory dated April 7, said the move is aimed at strengthening cooperation and broadening interoperability between troops of both...
United States Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers recorded remarks at the Pentagon, March 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy: Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech, DOD) The upcoming visit of United States Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth to the country later this...
Philippine Army Vice Commander, Maj. Gen. Leodevic Guinid (left) and US Army Pacific 25th Infantry Division Deputy Commanding General, Brig. Gen. Jonathan Velishka are in a huddle with other PA and USARPAC officials to discuss activities for Exercise Sabak 2025 which kicked off in Fort Magsaysay,...
Filipino Air Force and Navy personnel joined their counterparts from the United States and Canada in the conduct of military exercises in the waters of Northern Luzon, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Thursday, Feb. 13. AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Romeo Brawner, Jr. said the activity...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN) Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas believes that President Marcos is "playing with fire" in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). This, as Brosas, an assistant minority, slammed the...
