pinoys getting awacs?

do they know how much money they need for that?? 

Philippine troops retake town after 12-hour standoff with Islamists

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine soldiers backed by armoured vehicles have retaken a southern town held for 12 hours by pro-Islamic State militants, the army said on Wednesday, with four rebels killed in urban clashes reminiscent of a five-month siege last year.

The clashes followed warnings by President Rodrigo Duterte that remnants of pro-Islamic State militant groups had been recruiting and still planning attacks on several southern cities to set up an independent and separate Islamic state.

Troops pursued militants from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) group, who fled to the hills after trying to occupy a marshland town, Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Cabunoc, an army battalion commander, said in a statement.

The military will continue to “disrupt the BIFF’s plan to sow terror in communities” in the troubled south, Cabunoc said.

There was no immediate comment from the Islamist militants’ group.

Hundreds of residents have remained in shelter areas and not been allowed to return home after troops retrieved improvised explosive devices and other booby traps in the town of Datu Paglas.

Cabunoc said four Islamist militants were killed and two others were wounded. A soldier and a local militia official were also wounded.

The army said the Datu Paglas attack could be a test case, since the area was near the militants’ marshland base.

Since March, the military has shifted its combat operations from Marawi, a battered lakeside town in Mindanao embroiled in last year’s five-month conflict, to the island’s marshes where other pro-Islamic State militants operate.

More than 40 BIFF militants have been killed in the last four months by troops in air and ground assaults the military described as preemptive moves to thwart militant attacks on cities.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trade...n-idUKKBN1JV1JK

they have much more pressing matters to be concerned about.. like rebels capturing towns on regular basis   
2nd marawi averted..

do they know how much money they need for that?? 

Why you guys love to talk about guns and bombs so much? You know what they are used for right? 80% of war casualties are civilians.

they have much more pressing matters to be concerned about.. like rebels capturing towns on regular basis   

Why you guys love to talk about guns and bombs so much? You know what they are used for right? 80% of war casualties are civilians.

Why you guys love to talk about guns and bombs so much? You know what they are used for right? 80% of war casualties are civilians.

An Army Cessna 182 light aeroplane on a routine air patrol with four officers on-board, on Thursday crashed in a remote area in Mae Hong Son province four kilometres from the Myanmar border.

The fate of the officers onboard was unknown at press time.The cause of the aircraft’s crash in Muang district – reportedly during “open sky” conditions – is under investigation, said Third Region Army commander Lt-General Vijak Siribansop. 

The four officers onboard were identified as two pilots – Lieutenant Nareupol Pookthong and Lieutenant Wiroj Taengkratok – and two officers – Lieutenant Khemarat Doungkaew and Sgt-Major 1st Class Chatchanan Kheunkaew.

A source at the 7th Infantry Regiment’s Special Task Force, which dispatched a helicopter to scout the target area, spotted the crashed aircraft on a mountainous area near Ban Huai Sai Khao in Tambon Huai Pha of Muang district at about 5pm.

Officers were dispatched to the crash site to deliver aid but had not yet reached it as of press time.

The six-seater aeroplane had gone off the radar around 11am in the Thai-Myanmar border area in the province’s Pang Mapha district, prompting the army unit’s search. 

An earlier attempt to locate the missing plane also led to a request to the Shan State Army to search their territory in Loi Tai Lang, Myanmar, opposite to the province’s Tambon Pang Mapha.

Thai cave rescue: Former Navy diver dies while exiting flooded tunnels





A former Thai Navy diver who had volunteered to help rescue 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand has died, according to government officials.

Former Sgt. Samarn Kunan, an ex-SEAL, died at 2:00 a.m. Friday local time (2 p.m. Thursday ET) due to a lack of air while attempting to return to a command center deep underground, Deputy Governor Passakorn Boonyalak said.
The command center is located two kilometers (1.2 miles) inside the cave, where the young soccer team and their coach have been trapped for almost two weeks.



Kunan, who was in his mid-30s, was returning from delivering oxygen tanks to the cavern where the boys when are he ran out of air while underwater.
"Diving is always full of risks," Navy SEAL chief Rear Adm. Aphakorn Yookongkaew said. "He may have passed out," causing him to drown, "but we have to wait for the autopsy," he added.
A military aircraft will carry Unan's body from Chiang Rai to Satthahip Navy Base Friday evening. A funeral service will take place there, and then at his home town in the province of Roi Et, northern Thailand.





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Thai cave rescue: Former Navy diver dies while exiting flooded tunnels





A former Thai Navy diver who had volunteered to help rescue 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand has died, according to government officials.

Former Sgt. Samarn Kunan, an ex-SEAL, died at 2:00 a.m. Friday local time (2 p.m. Thursday ET) due to a lack of air while attempting to return to a command center deep underground, Deputy Governor Passakorn Boonyalak said.
The command center is located two kilometers (1.2 miles) inside the cave, where the young soccer team and their coach have been trapped for almost two weeks.



Kunan, who was in his mid-30s, was returning from delivering oxygen tanks to the cavern where the boys when are he ran out of air while underwater.
"Diving is always full of risks," Navy SEAL chief Rear Adm. Aphakorn Yookongkaew said. "He may have passed out," causing him to drown, "but we have to wait for the autopsy," he added.
A military aircraft will carry Unan's body from Chiang Rai to Satthahip Navy Base Friday evening. A funeral service will take place there, and then at his home town in the province of Roi Et, northern Thailand.





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A MiG-29 fighter jet crashed near the town of Pasłęk in northern Poland in the early hours of Friday, public broadcaster Polish Radio's IAR news agency reported.

Krzysztof Sobków, from the Government Security Centre, told IAR that the pilot died in the crash.

The causes of the tragic incident at around 2 am CET were not immediately known, IAR said.

The aircraft, which was part of the 22nd Tactical Air Base in the town of Malbork, hit the ground and burst into flames, the news agency reported.

The pilot had ejected from the plane some 18 km from Malbork but was found dead near the wreckage.

Poland’s air force fleet includes 31 MiG-29 fighter jets, some of which entered into service in 1989.

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Wtf? main assault rifle 11 inches barrel only? any military ppl can weigh in here