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partner for a wide subject matter expertise exchanges. Part of the joint military exercises will see both sides cooperating to sink a decommissioned Philippine Navy replenishment tanker off the waters of Zambales.

Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) spokesperson Captain. Jarald Rea, in an interview with reporters on Wednesday, said this activity is known in military circles as a “maritime strike” and will take place in San Antonio, Zambales on July 13. He identified the decommissioned Navy ship as the ex-BRP Lake Caliraya. This tanker was earlier donated by the then Philippine National Oil Corporation to the Philippine Navy sometime in 2014 and decommissioned in 2020.

Rea said the scenario for this maritime strike exercise is focused on “coastal defense” and aimed at disrupting invading or hostile landing or “counter-landing” in military parlance. With Vince Lopez