Скачать или смотреть PHILIPPINE NAVY GETTING TWO FRENCH SUBMARINES ALONG WITH THE FULL TRAINING OVER YEARS

“We’re getting two French submarines along with the full training over years of several rotations of crew,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said in a Twitter post on December 21.

The foreign affairs secretary made the statement commenting on the recent interactions of French Navy Rubis-class nuclear powered submarine (SSN) FS Émeraude with United States and Japanese naval forces in Western Pacific.

Secretary Locsin added that “only now is a government making the red in our flag stand for something real: the wherewithal to make w4r in the national defense.”

In November, Naval Group, a French naval systems provider and integrator, announced that it is opening a “representation office in the Philippines to be operated in Manila.”