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Philippines slams 'high-risk' Chinese naval actions near contested reef
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
The Scarborough Shoal -- a triangular chain of reefs and rocks in the contested South China Sea -- has been a flashpoint between the countries since China seize...
Second plane falls off US aircraft carrier in 10 days
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
The F/A-18F Super Hornet -- which cost about $67 million -- went overboard Tuesday due to a failure in the procedure for aircraft to catch a wire with a hook to...
Second U.S. fighter jet falls off USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier
May 07, 2025 (UPI)
The F/A-18 Super Hornet fell off the deck of the ship and was lost in the Red Sea, CBS News, NBC News and CNN reported. The pilot and weapons systems officer we...
Warship sinks before it can be sunk in US-Philippine drills
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
The 80-year-old vessel, however, would not quite make its own funeral. Onlookers instead watched as the ship, which once chased Japanese submarines and ferried ...
Vietnam protests China, Philippines claims on South China Sea reef
May 03, 2025 (AFP)
Manila and Beijing traded barbs last week over Sandy Cay, a group of small sandbanks in the waterway's Spratly Islands, after a Chinese state media report sugge...
'Loss of confidence in ability to command' cited as Navy commander relieved of duties
May 02, 2025 (UPI)
The Navy said Dearing was relieved of command "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command." The Navy said in statement, "Cmdr. Joseph Dearing was rel...
Russia may have helped North Korea with new warship, Seoul says
May 01, 2025 (AFP)
Pyongyang recently unveiled a 5,000-ton destroyer-class vessel named Choe Hyon that some analysts said could be equipped with short-range tactical nuclear missi...
Chinese national arrested with surveillance device near Philippine election commission
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
The man was allegedly using an "IMSI catcher", a device capable of mimicking a cell tower and snatching messages from the air in a one-to-three-kilometre (about...
China, Philippines trade barbs over disputed reef
Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)
The Sandy Cay reef lies near Thitu Island, or Pag-asa, where the Philippines stations troops and maintains a coast guard monitoring base. Chinese state broadcas...
Lost at sea: $66M F/A-18E Super Hornet goes over side of USS Harry S. Truman
Apr 28, 2025 (UPI)
All personnel are accounted for with just one sailor aboard the Super Hornet jet sustaining a minor injury, the Navy said in a news release. The jet was being t...
China says handled Philippine 'infringement' at disputed reef
Apr 27, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing claims sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea and has waved away competing assertions from other countries in the region as well as an inter...
Philippines, US test air defences as China seizes reef
Apr 27, 2025 (AFP)
The Philippines and China have been engaged in months of confrontations over the South China Sea, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite an interna...
North Korea launches new destroyer
Apr 26, 2025 (AFP)
The announcement comes about a month after Kim oversaw the test of new suicide and reconnaissance drones featuring AI technology, adding to concerns over North ...
U.S. Navy's newest oiler to honor Black civil rights activist Sojourner Truth
Apr 25, 2025 (UPI)
The ship is named in honor of Sojourner Truth, a 19th-century civil rights abolitionist and activist from New York. "This ship honors the legacy of a woman of g...
Sidus Space advances real-time maritime vessel detection via LizzieSat satellite AI
Apr 23, 2025 (SPX)
At the core of the initiative is the integration of the OrbitfyEdge software from LPL with Sidus Space's Orlaith AI Ecosystem, which includes the FeatherEdge ed...
'Shared adversity', new weapons as Philippine, US forces launch 'Balikatan'
Apr 21, 2025 (AFP)
Around 17,000 troops are expected to take part in the annual "Balikatan", or "shoulder to shoulder" drills, which for the first time will include an integrated ...
'Shared adversity' as Philippines, US launch joint military drills
Apr 21, 2025 (AFP)
As many as 17,000 personnel are expected to take part in the annual "Balikatan", or "shoulder to shoulder" drills, which for the first time will include an inte...
Japanese warships dock at Cambodia's Chinese-renovated naval base
Apr 19, 2025 (AFP)
The United States has said the Ream Naval Base, located off Cambodia's southern coast, could give China a key strategic position in the Gulf of Thailand near th...
Captured underwater drone sent messages to China: Philippine military
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
The revelation follows months of confrontations between the Philippines and China in the disputed South China Sea and comes as Manila prepares for large-scale m...
Trump resurrects ghost of US military bases in Panama
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
After Trump vowed to reclaim the interoceanic waterway from Chinese influence, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an agreement with the Mulino administrat...
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