MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy officially commissioned its second missile-capable frigate, BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151), on Friday, in what Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana called as “the advent of our future fleet towards having a modernized and multi-capable Navy.”
NOW: Commissioning and christening of BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151), the Navy’s second missile-capable frigate built by South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industrieshttps://t.co/tW1Kj9BQCn pic.twitter.com/phTNqpCEPA
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“Malaki ang kahalagahan nito dahil noong una, noong nakaraang panahon, wala man lang tayong pang-patrolya sa West Philippine Sea. Noon kasi pang-patrolya natin yung mga World War 2 vintage,” Lorenzana said on the sidelines of the commissioning ceremony at South Harbor.
(This is significant because, in the past, we didn’t…
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