Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 08:15:21 +0000
A US F-35 stealth bomber suffered millions of dollars in damage after colliding with a bird during take-off from an air base in Japan.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 07:49:01 +0000
Japan said Tuesday it had recovered some debris from a stealth fighter jet that crashed in April, but was still looking…
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 00:43:37 +0000
U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan warned Friday that the Pentagon will halt manufacturing support for the F-35
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:26:11 +0000
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte’s travel warning in Zamboanga was only meant as his “way of looking out for the safety of tourists visiting the Philippines.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:14:20 +0000
President Duterte has ordered the transfer of the PADC from the Department of Transportation to the Department of National Defense.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:58:59 +0000
China will raise military spending by 7.5 percent in 2019, lower than the increase last year, according to a government report.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:10:33 +0000
Britain’s top diplomat has urged Germany to relax its ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia because they are affecting U.K. sales of weapons to — and by extension its influence with — the oil-rich kingdom.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:11:05 +0000
South Korea and the United States signed a provisional agreement Sunday on the sharing of costs to maintain US troops here, with South Korea raising its share by 8.2 percent.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 05:00:37 +0000
The Trump administration is pulling the plug on a decades-old nuclear arms treaty with Russia, lifting what it sees as unreasonable constraints on competing with a resurgent Russia and a more assertive China.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 05:36:02 +0000
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana condemned the deadly bombing that hit a Roman Catholic church in Jolo, Sulu, adding that the “full force of the law” will be used to bring those behind the incident to justice.
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