Aquino bares blueprint to modernize AFP July 27, 2010, 12:16pm

Aquino bares blueprint to modernize AFP

July 27, 2010, 12:16pm

MANILA (PNA) — President Benigno C. Aquino III on Monday bared a blueprint to modernize the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), particularly the Philippine Navy (PN), which has only 31 aging ships of World War II vintage in its arsenal to guard the country’s vast 36,000 square nautical miles of territorial waters.

In his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) before a joint session of Congress at the Batasan Pambansa complex in suburban Quezon City, the President said that a plan is afoot to lease the Navy’s headquarters at Roxas Boulevard in Manila for US$ 100 million with the money to be used to buy new equipment for the Navy.

The President said the Navy’s headquarters will be relocated to Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City..... MORE

Source:  The Manila Bulletin

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