{"id":95082,"date":"2017-03-22T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95082"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:18:19","slug":"lima-2017-to-provide-pn-with-view-on-modern-naval-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/22\/lima-2017-to-provide-pn-with-view-on-modern-naval-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"LIMA 2017 to provide PN with view on modern naval technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95083\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95083\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n.jpg\" alt=\"This was stressed by PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph Mercado who was present in the opening ceremonies of LIMA 2017 held Tuesday (March 21). (Photo: PHILIPPINE NAVY\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-768x674.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was stressed by PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph Mercado who was present in the opening ceremonies of LIMA 2017 held Tuesday (March 21). (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\/\">PHILIPPINE NAVY\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013The ongoing Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) will provide the Philippine Navy (PN) an opportunity to see first hand modern naval technologies.<\/p>\n<p>This was stressed by PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph Mercado who was present in the opening ceremonies of LIMA 2017 held Tuesday (March 21).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(This is) an opportunity for us to widen our knowledge particularly on modern maritime technologies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Such assessments are needed as the PN is now undergoing modernization with various modern naval platforms undergoing bidding, construction, and delivery within the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Mercado, also attending LIMA 17 was the BRP Andres Bonifacio (FF-17), the country&#8217;s third Hamilton-class cutter in service and 206 naval personnel, who will participate in the LIMA Sea Exercise, a half-day multi-national naval exercise among participating countries.<\/p>\n<p>LIMA is one of the most influential exhibitions in Asia since this is a dedicated maritime and aerospace exhibition for defense, civil and commercial aviation, shipbuilding and ship repair.<\/p>\n<p>LIMA 2017 started on March 21 and will end on the 25th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013The ongoing Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) will provide the Philippine Navy (PN) an opportunity to see first hand &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,95],"tags":[16964,16965,11004],"class_list":["post-95082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-langkawi-international-maritime-and-aerospace","tag-naval-technologies","tag-philippine-navy","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95082","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}