The Japan Air Self-Defense Force will send two F-15 fighter jets to the Philippines next week for a joint training on integrated air defense—the first between the two countries—as both seek to strengthen their military cooperation. | FMangosingINQ /PDI
PAF chief Lt. Gen. Connor Anthony Canlas told the Inquirer that the training would focus “mainly on integrated air defense systems.”
The Armed Forces of the Philippines and Japan have been stepping up bilateral engagements in recent months after their foreign and defense ministers met in Tokyo in April to expand defense cooperation amid concerns over the situations in the East and South China Seas and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was the first “2+2” meeting between the two US allies.
Just a week ago, Philippine senators said they would endorse a VFA with Japan, making it only the third nation with which the country has such an extraordinary agreement, next to the United States and Australia.
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