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Duterte to Purchase Night-Capable Helicopters and Patrol Boats for AFP.

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<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="hidepic" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_ll-0dtwDMzlkO6qlObz1HKhSO-sH688wPTxFJSpSvqiveeYZB1PZNG2thBBPJGSuqgvW_-OlX9FDGw62eh-Rv2XHM7b9eSMyP-K7Ekgld1JVZux3cIQ1a0Xye-Ykelj_6rynfqdozY/s1600/Night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_ll-0dtwDMzlkO6qlObz1HKhSO-sH688wPTxFJSpSvqiveeYZB1PZNG2thBBPJGSuqgvW_-OlX9FDGw62eh-Rv2XHM7b9eSMyP-K7Ekgld1JVZux3cIQ1a0Xye-Ykelj_6rynfqdozY/s1600/Night.jpg"/></a></div><br/> <div style="text-align: justify;">While the Aquino administration pursued <b>Military Modernization</b> to boost the country’s stance against China’s threat with the <b>Scarborough Shoal conflict</b>, <b>Duterte’s</b> <b>Administration </b>focuses on modernization for <b>internal security</b>. The newly appointed <b>AFP Chief Lt</b>. <b>General Ricardo Visaya</b> said in a Press Conference, that President Duterte plans to purchase equipments to focus on internal security threat. </div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Duterte to Purchase Night-Capable Helicopters and Patrol Boats for AFP. " height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOn8Itrpxeu_G9GzOmnfCnY50a6IWY9EUsz8ZGKwVsjF3qoXWpcIcofqjUfPeCga9_k5T80akQ2D2kZT0agqOS6pVXIvPjfP3lsiE98DNMVO36lULsd4ZXPef2o39krNcaCWLs4A5rcHs/s640/Water.png" title="Duterte to Purchase Night-Capable Helicopters and Patrol Boats for AFP. " width="449"/></div><br/></div><br/> <div style="text-align: justify;">Currently, the country is in constant conflict with the <b>Abu Sayaff</b> Group who recently beheaded two Canadian Nationals, John Ridsel and Robert Hall. New People’s Army, also posts threats in Mindanao together with some other bandits like Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). </div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Visaya shared that they are pursuing to futher the AFP Modernization Program including acquisition of equipments. They will be procuring a night-capable AW-109 attack helicopters of the Philippine Air Force and Philippine Navy. This can improve the government’s response to different terrorist attack. The lack of these helicopters and other equipments such as patrol boats , is the reason why the AFP wasn’t able to immediately perform operations when the ASG attacked Samal Island and kidnapped the Canadian Nationals together with Marites Flor who is now released, and a norweigan hostage which is still in the ASG’s premises and waiting for a release. </div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">However, Visaya claimed that albeit prioritizing internal security operations, the modernization program will not halt in serving the external security of the country.<br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">Source: </span><a href="http://viralnews-ph.blogspot.com/2016/06/duterte-wants-to-buy-night-attack.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">ViralNews-PH</a></div><br/></div><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p><a href="http://www.trendingnewsportal.net/2016/06/while-aquino-administration-pursued.html" rel="nofollow">trendingnewsportal.net</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

While the Aquino administration pursued Military Modernization to boost the country’s stance against China’s threat with the Scarborough S...