“We are moving forward no matter what
happens” Philippine modernization program marks a huge change to the
overall Philippine defense.
“President Aquino’s aggressive modernization
program changes how other country look at the capabilities of Philippine defense ”.
Defense Secretary Gazmin stated on a conference. Now we are in thorough
upgrade, Ph military is expected to obtain 50,000 Remington Firearms in which
this will replace the traditional M16 used by our military soldiers in
operations.
“Everything is being upgraded. It
is part of our modernization program,” said Gazmin. “The first batch of
100 Remington riffles has already been delivered for final testing and
checking.” He added. It is expected that the project will be completed December
of this year, 27,200 in August and the remaining 23,000 Remington riffles will
be on the last month of 2014 (December).
“All riffles from US” and it
is expected that this will replace old M16 used by Ph soldiers.
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