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Nov 21, 2024 9:21 PM by
The Maritime Executive
The U.S. has supplied the Philippine Navy with unmanned drone boats to help with surveillance tasks in the South China Sea, according to the Pentagon.
During outgoing defense secretary Lloyd Austin's fourth and final trip to the Philippines this week, he visited a base on Palawan to meet a forward-deployed U.S. training unit - dubbed Task Force Ayungin, after the Philippine name for a hotly-contested shoal in the Spratly Islands.
Philippine sailors walked Austin through their inventory of American-built Mantas...
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