Philippine Defense News

27/12/2025

Pumirma ng kasunduan ang Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) at ang Department of National Defense para sa pagpapalakas ng kakayahan ng FA-50 fighter jets ng Pi...

11/12/2025

Opisyal nang itinurn over ng Department of Science and Technology sa Philippine Army ang prototype ng C.O.B.R.A. (Controller Operated Battle Ready Armament)....

11/12/2025

04/12/2025

25/11/2025

South Korea Hyundai Heavy Industries finalising deal to deliver two more Miguel Malvar-class frigates to the Philippine Navy, contract due before December 2025

12/11/2025

125 years ago, Spain and the United States of America (USA) signed a treaty which clarified the territory of the Philippine archipelago. It states that Spain cedes to USA "any and all islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago, lying outside the lines described in [the Treaty of Paris]."

This treaty serves as legal basis for the Philippines' ownership of Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) and Kalayaan Island Group (Spratlys), which both appears in the 1734 Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas and the 1875 Carta General del Archipielago Filipino. The latter was reissued by the Americans in 1898, 1900, 1901, and 1902 with minimal modification.

The Treaty of Washington was among the international documents mentioned as the basis of Philippine territory in the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines.

This treaty was negotiated after Spanish garrisons located in Cagayan de Sulú and Sibutú refused to turn over their positions to the Americans, as the islands were beyond the lines drawn by the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

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10/11/2025

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30/10/2025

The Philippines hosted its inaugural Drone Warfare Summit at Subic Bay, showcasing cutting-edge unmanned systems across air, land, sea, and underwater domain...

27/10/2025

Binuksan ngayong umaga ang tatlong araw na Drone Warfare Summit ng Philippine Navy.Layunin nito na palakasin ang kakayahan ng sandatahang lakas sa makabagong...

08/10/2025

13/09/2025

Thanks Uncle Sam 😀

The United States stands with our ally the Philippines following China's destabilizing plans to establish a “national nature reserve” at Scarborough Reef.

Read: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/09/on-scarborough-reef/

13/09/2025