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Philippine Coast Guard multirole vessel,
Teresa Magbanua
. The service is poised to receive five more similar vessels.
(Pieter Sinke)
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is poised to receive five more 97 m offshore patrol vessels (OPVs).
A ceremony to mark the exchange of diplomatic notes, which effects an official development assistance (ODA) loan from Tokyo to acquire the vessels, was held in Manila on 17 May, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) disclosed on the same day.

Saab, Inc builds the aft fuselage for the US Air Force’s T-7 jet trainer at a new facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. Above, the T-7 engineering and manufacturing development aircraft takes off from St Louis on its first flight in June 2023. (Boeing)

Saab continues to expand in the US through its Syracuse, New York-based subsidiary, Saab, Inc. In April, the company announced plans to build a new munitions facility in the US and unveiled the Skapa initiative to rapidly develop new capabilities and products, as
Janes
reported at the time.

Singapore Army’s new light machine gun. (Singapore Ministry of Defence/Janes)

The Singapore Army has initiated inducting

Colt’s Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 (IAR6940) as its new section automatic weapon (SAW) to replace ST Engineering’s 5.56 mm Ultimax 100 Mk2 light machine gun (LMG), which has been in service since 1982.

(photo by Eve Baker, Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office/U.S. Army).
A soldier based out of Fort Wainwright died on Saturday, May 18 when the car she was in crashed and suffered a rollover, the U.S. Army and Alaska State Troopers announced.
Pfc. Cierra Nglias Truce with the 11th Airborne Division died early Saturday morning. She and another soldier were driving down Parks Highway in Alaska when it crashed due to unspecified reasons. Truce, 19, was the passenger and was ejected from the vehicle. Alaska State Troopers received a call about the crash and responded shortly after 6 a.m.

Seen here firing weapons in the Red Sea in October 2023, USS
Carney
benefited from shoreside support for Aegis performance during recent successful operations in the region.

MV
Mentor,
seen here as it arrives at Changi Naval Base in May 2024.
(Singapore MINDEF)

Singapore has leased MV
Mentor,
a 193 m cargo vessel, to support its navy’s training requirements.

The vessel has been leased on a commercially owned and commercially operated arrangement, said a Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) spokesperson in a 21 May email response to questions from
Janes
.

Saab’s Sirius Compact passive manportable EW system has started series production. (Saab)
Saab has started series production of its new Sirius Compact passive electronic warfare (EW) system, Janes learnt at AOC Europe 2024, held from 13 to 15 May in Oslo.

Chinese Police in the Solomon Islands are engineering a shadow coup for the minority, pro-CCP politicals

Image by Burmesedays

This is what happened in Hong Kong. The pro-CCP elements inside Hong Kong engineered a stealth replacement of the long standing, British trained and conditioned Hong Kong Police Force with armed, CCP Para-Military police from the Mainland. They were thuggish and brutal in shutting down debate and asphyxiating Hong Kong into submission.
Cleo Paskal, the expert on CCP adventurism in the Pacific Island Republics has circulated this letter.

Naval N.
Lockheed Martin vertically launched a PAC-3 MSE for the first time in a test that downed a cruise missile target.

Geoff Ziezulewicz, Navy Times
After more than seven months deployed, most of it spent fighting off sustained missile and drone barrages fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the men and women…