UK’s $1 billion AUKUS support request signals strong ongoing US collaboration
The latest foreign military sales request from the UK has implications for the future of the programme and collaboration between the three nations.
ADAS 2018: Corvettes and OPVs attract attention
The Philippine Navy (PN) has great ambitions, listing six OPVs, two corvettes and even submarines under its Horizon 2 modernisation plan covering the 2018-22 timeframe. It was therefore unsurprising that shipbuilders were out in force at ADAS 2018 in Manila.
Austal zoomed into the headlines as an OPV contender when Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said last month: ‘By the way, we have an offshore patrol vessel order, six of which would be built here in the country. It will be built by Austal – which is a subsidiary of Austal in Australia – in Balamban, Cebu.’
However, Lorenzana took everyone
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