{"id":17920,"date":"2014-07-03T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17920"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:31:51","slug":"ill-equipped-philippine-military-to-get-2-of-12-new-fighter-jets-next-year-to-defend-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/ill-equipped-philippine-military-to-get-2-of-12-new-fighter-jets-next-year-to-defend-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ill equipped Philippine military to get 2 of 12 new fighter jets next year to defend territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17921\" style=\"width: 1704px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/F-8H_Crusader_of_the_Philippine_Air_Force_in_flight_c1978.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17921\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/F-8H_Crusader_of_the_Philippine_Air_Force_in_flight_c1978.jpeg\" alt=\"A Vought F-8H Crusader (ex U.S. Navy BuNo 148649) of the Philippine Air Force in flight. Photo from U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/F-8H_Crusader_of_the_Philippine_Air_Force_in_flight_c1978.jpeg 1704w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/F-8H_Crusader_of_the_Philippine_Air_Force_in_flight_c1978-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/F-8H_Crusader_of_the_Philippine_Air_Force_in_flight_c1978-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Vought F-8H Crusader (ex U.S. Navy BuNo 148649) of the Philippine Air Force in flight. Photo from U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0president said Tuesday his country\u2019s ill-equipped military will receive its first new fighter jets in nearly a decade next year to help defend the country\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n<p>President Benigno Aquino III said two of 12 FA-50 multi-purpose fighters will be delivered by their South Korean manufacturer next year and the rest are expected to follow in the next three years. The\u00a0Philippines\u00a0has scrambled to modernize its military, one of Asia\u2019s weakest, amid increasingly tense territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino said the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0has had no fighter jets for territorial defence since a fleet of F-5 jets was decommissioned in 2005. The anemic air force is being strengthened with the purchase of new assault helicopters, long-range patrol aircraft and C130 cargo planes, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s saddening to think about the state of the air force that we inherited: Once regarded as among Asia\u2019s strongest, the air force seemed to have failed to take off from decades of anomalies, abuse and neglect,\u201d Aquino said in a speech at Clark freeport north of Manila marking the anniversary of the\u00a0Philippine\u00a0air force.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino said with the acquisition of the FA-50s, \u201cwe can again defend our territory in a more effective way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0military signed a contract with Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. in March to buy 12 FA-50s for 18.9 billion pesos ($420 million), the biggest deal so far under a military modernization program that has been repeatedly stalled by a lack of funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0president said Tuesday his country\u2019s ill-equipped military will receive its first new fighter jets in nearly a decade next year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}