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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Philippine navy to rearm 2nd US-made cutter

BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16)The government has allotted funds to buy artillery to rearm the second Hamilton-class cutter that was sold by the United States government to the Philippines without its weapons system, Navy chief Vice Admiral Alexander Pama said Friday.

The US government had agreed to sell the cutter but stripped it of its artillery such as missiles, search radars and a close-in weapons system, leaving only a 76mm gun attached to the ship.

The government, through Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, had appealed to their counterparts in a recent visit to the US to retain the weapons system and restore the same artillery that were also removed from the first cutter, but their request was denied.

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