Pitz Defense Analysis @DefensePitz

🇵🇭🇹🇭 The Philippine Navy has selected Thailand's Chaiseri AWAV 8x8 amphibious armored vehicle for its Marine Corps, making the Philippines the first export customer of the AWAV 8x8. According to Thai media Defense Info TH.

While there were reports that the deal for KF-21 Boramaes are somewhat a 'done deal' on a negotiation standpoint let it be noted that it isn't over until an official release from the Department of National Defense confirms it and the contract for twenty (20) units of this MRF have signed. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #KF21Boramae #PhilippineAirForce

Para Bellum @ReHorizon3

a day ago

🇵🇭🇰🇷✈️ | So it's confirmed. The Philippines and the Korean government has reached an agreement for the export of KF-21 Boramae fighter Jets, according to a Korean journalist that MaxDefense asked. The 20 KF-21 Boramae fighter jets for the @PhilAirForce is already a done deal.

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Presented here is the complete timeline of the BRP Ilocos Norte's assembly, in which it spans from its keel laid in the drydock floor until the pieces gets assembled before its launching that took place on June 30. It shows how fast the assembly was made to the Philippine Navy's landing dock, although it might still take time for the fitting and finalizations to take place before it even considers sea trial operations. Tentative delivery of the ship will likely happen some time in 2027. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #LandingDocksAcquisitionProject #PhilippineNavy #BRPIlocosNorte #LD603 (c) PT PAL

Feiferiz @MightyWar3

2 days ago

Heh, hobby banget ganti topik ini Nguyen. Jawab aja dulu, galangan kapal lu bisa kaga bangun kapal LPD 124 meter dengan bobot 7.200 ton dalam waktu kurang lebih 6 bulan? Terus, negara lu bisa kagak, habis launching proses fitting out, harbour acceptance test, sea acceptance test

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The ex-USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) has been listed as a live-fire SINKEX target for #RIMPAC2026. This 9,600-ton Aegis cruiser has been turned into a highly rare, high-end target. This highly unusual sacrifice is aimed at testing the power of modern weapons against complex warship. #US

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This puts an affirmative to the previous reports.

DefenArt @DefenArt

3 days ago

BRP ILOCOS NORTE (LD-603)

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This means two things for the current BRP Ilocos Norte (SARV-3501): a. It would be renamed. (If it is in the process of being reactivated as previous news hold true) b. It has been (un)officially withdrawn from use. (If the material condition of the ship isn't worth repairing)

Frances Mangosing 🇵🇭 @Frances_Mng

3 days ago

Names of future 🇵🇭 Philippine Navy LDs — BRP Ilocos Norte (LD-603) and BRP Leyte (LD-604)

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So 🇨🇳@globaltimesnews has parachuted in from Beijing with its own direct reply to @jaytaryela's latest post about the 2016 Arbitral Award. #China's arguments are as bad today as they were 10 years ago, but let's review shall we? ⚖️ "Illegal, null and void." Whatever dude. You've said this countless times, but repetition is not legal analysis. The tribunal confirmed its jurisdiction, considered China's published objections & issued a final, binding award under international law. You boycotted the case. You lost it anyway...because your position is the legal equivalent of a self-licking ice cream cone.🍦 "UNCLOS doesn't cover sovereignty." Correct. And the 🇵🇭 #Philippines never asked it to. Manila asked the tribunal to rule on maritime entitlements, the status of features & China's so-called "historic rights" under UNCLOS. It did, and said your preposterous dashed-line claim has no legal basis. Then comes Beijing's favorite contortion: "Settle this bilaterally. Honor the agreements you signed." Fine. Start with the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the #SouthChinaSea. 🇨🇳China signed it with all of #ASEAN. It pledged peaceful resolution of disputes, freedom of navigation & self-restraint — including, in its own words, refraining from inhabiting uninhabited reefs, shoals & other features. Then China dredged and filled thousands of acres of pristine reef. It seized control of Scarborough Shoal. It created an exclusion zone. It swarmed, water-cannoned & rammed 🇵🇭Philippine vessels in waters where it has no lawful right to impose its will. Beijing wants the sanctity of agreements ... under its own tortured interpretations ... until it doesn't. That's the pattern. Beijing invokes its favorite part of the DOC it actually likes to discredit the award, while blatantly violating the rest of the DOC to render its argument laughable. It papers over bad arguments with worse ones. And it demands bilateral talks bound by rules it systematically breaks. "But the situation has only worsened since 2016." 😲Golly, why do you suppose that is? Could it be because China answered the Philippines' legal victory with accelerated aggression? Sorry, but that's not a flaw in the award. That's a confession. If China defies a binding ruling under UNCLOS and abrogates the pledges it made to all of ASEAN under the DOC, why should Manila trust it alone, one-on-one, bound by no rule Beijing is willing to accept above its own coercive will? The award didn't create this dispute. China's behavior did. #BadPanda

Global Times @globaltimesnews

4 days ago

#Comment: Regrettably, some Philippine politicians have completely missed the point we made. No matter how hard they try to tout the so-called South China Sea arbitration award, it has ended up being nothing more than a "sticky note" – a political label whose only purpose is to

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Four Chinese vessels—one People’s Liberation Army Navy frigate and three China Coast Guard ships—were monitored in the vicinity of a Philippines-United States bilateral maritime cooperative activity near Bajo de Masinloc or Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea on Sunday. The Chinese ships followed participating vessels but did not interfere with the activity. #SelfiePatrol @ABSCBNNews

Ten years on, more nations than ever recognize the 2016 Award as final and binding — and Filipinos from Luzon to Mindanao stand behind the West Philippine Sea. The important thing this decade exposed is a China that breaks its treaty commitments, disregards international law and violates its neighbors’ maritime rights. And I hope the Chinese Communist Party can remember this: in the next 100 years, even if China ignores it, it can never diminish the legal authority and power of the 2016 Arbitral Award.

Still on the news surrounding the Philippine contingent taking part on the Rim of the Pacific exercises or the RIMPAC 2026, the Philippine Coast Guard held a multinational luncheon onboard the BRP Gabriela Silang (OPV-8301), as they showcase the best traits of Filipino hospitality and promotes camaraderie as this is the first time the Philippine Coast Guard takes part in this multinational naval event. As to take note, the State of Hawaii comes with its large Filipino community living there, and it is not surprising that they are delighted to the sight of both the BRP Miguel Malvar (FFG6) and BRP Gabriela Silang docking within the piers of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, where in its process it strengthens the bond of belonging for the Filipinos based in Hawaii while it also strengthens the interoperability among like-minded countries that take part in the event. Lasting until July 31, the Rim of the Pacific multilateral naval exercise will compose of multiple drills and activities that will put those capabilities in the test, while sharing and learning new experience, which the likes of the BRP Gabriela Silang and its crew is willing to share and learn, same with the crew of BRP Miguel Malvar and its crew. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #PhilippineCoastGuard #BRPGabrielaSilang #PearlHarbor #RIMPAC2026 #FriendsPartnersAllies #Hawaii Shared via DVIDS - U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Andrew Herwig

Video: Here is a full video clip of the arrival of the BRP Gabriela Silang (OPV-8301) of the Philippine Coast Guard, where it forms part of the Philippine contingent alongside the BRP Miguel Malvar (FFG6) of the Philippine Navy as its official participants for the Joint Multilateral Exercise RIMPAC 2026. Being the first coast guard outside of the United States that will take part in this event, the BRP Gabriela Silang and its crew will share interoperability and exchange skills and expertise with its counterparts in the United States Coast Guard, especially on its actual role as a deterrent against intrusive actors in the West Philippine Sea. This will also improve the coast guard to coast guard relations between the two countries all throughout this event. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #PhilippineCoastGuard #BRPGabrielaSilang #RIMPAC2026 #FriendsPartnersAllies From DVIDS by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lordin Kelly

Here is a clear image of one Marine Protector class vessel that the United States Coast Guard will transfer to the Philippine Coast Guard. Named as the BRP Pag-Asa (PATS-MPC 2701), it will serve both at the lead ship of this new class of ships that will augment the almost similar-sized Boracay-class patrol boats already serving the Philippine Coast Guard fleet. This ship is among the vessels transferred under the Excess Defense Articles arrangement between both coast guards, which comes alongside Beechcraft King Air turboprop reconaissance aircraft. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #PhilippineCoastGuard #PagAsaClassPatrolVessel #MaritimeProtectorClass #UnitedStatesCoastGuard Image from Reniel Ragudo.

China steals our resources, our islands and anything that falls in our EEZ. And then blames us for all the mess. China is a bully that refuses to accept its wrongdoings. @leisbeth_recto @RommelFLopez

Four days (4) before the actual launching date set by PT PAL Persero, this is the current status of the first landing dock under the Philippine Navy's Landing Docks Acquisition Project, and the third one in the overall fleet inventory as of today, June 26. As seen on the image below, the ship is currently covered with scaffolding, finalizing the painting and welding of the ship's hull as the launch date gets near, with the shipbuilder's aim to finalize and complete the landing platform dock before it gets launched. Looking at its hull, while it shares the same DNA with the Tarlac-class Landing Platform Docks given that it comes from the same shipbuilder, but with minor modifications on its bow and other areas of the ship makes this a different variant of the same design. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #PhilippineNavy #PTPAL #LandingDocksAcquisitionProject Image from FMI&M.

PDM Report: Posted on FMI&M showing the Philippines Landing Platform Dock with complete superstructure in PT PAL, showing that the delay orders are nearing completion. PDM expected the #3 LPD to undergo sea test before the year's end.

Aside from the marketing of KF-21 Boramae to the Philippine Air Force, Korea Aerospace Industries or KAI is also currently managing the production and delivery of twelve (12) additional FA-50PH lead-in fighter trainers to the service branch, with the first deliveries likely starting by 2028. This will help augment the eleven (11) FA-50s currently serving the Philippine Air Force, which then further expand its implementation of the Philippine Air Defense Identification Zone or PADIZ in anticipation to the eventual awarding and delivery of the first multirole fighter jet that the service branch might get, whichever among the candidates will be the winner aside from the marketed KF-21 Boramae. The ongoing purchase of FA-50PH come as the result of discussions that have started way back 2022, and even further into the first deliveries made to the first squadron of the aircraft and its eventual introduction to the Philippine Air Force's Fifth Fighter Wing. For more information about the acquisition project for twelve (12) additional FA-50s, kindly access this article in a link below. pitzdefanalysis.net/2022/08/additi… #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #PhilippineAirForce #FA50PH #KoreaAerospaceIndustries #LeadInFighterTrainerJet pna.gov.ph/articles/12781…

Over the past few months, several Korean outlets provides development information on prospective export for the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet recently developed and introduced by the Korea Aerospace Industries for the Republic of Korea Air Force, of which they see the Philippines as one of the potential future customers of the fighter aircraft. Discussed from 2023, it was already in the plans for the Korean aerospace company to market the aircraft to the Philippine Air Force, as it is actively competing to the multirole fighter jet acquisition program, which is now against another dual-engine multirole fighter aircraft marketed by the Italian defense company Leonardo in the form of Eurofighter Typhoon 2000 Tranche 5. Apparently, the purchase of at least forty (40) multirole fighter jets are now broken down into two (2) batches, enabling both jets as mentioned to get the portion of the entire program that might help the service branch operate without disruptions in any case one aircraft type gets grounded due to the mishap. For more information about the KF-21 Boramae aircraft, kindly access the article provided in a link below. #PDA #PitzDefAnalysis #PhilippineAirForce #KF21Boramae #KoreaAerospaceIndustries #KAI #MRF #MultiroleFighterJetAcquisitionProgram pitzdefanalysis.net/2023/08/k-21-b…

(UPDATED) Philippine Navy then (2013) and now (2026) fleet infographic. 1/2

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