Armament of the Philippine Army. Insurance Collector

The Philippine Army (or as it is officially known in Tagalog as Hukbong Katinan n'Philipinas) is the oldest and largest part of the country's armed forces.

Nowadays, Army Day in the Philippines is celebrated on March 22, when in 1897 the Filipino rebel forces united to fight against Spanish colonial rule.

This first army was destroyed during the war with the Americans, who replaced Spain as the mother country at the turn of the century. Already during the war with the partisans, the Americans formed Philippine Scout units from the local population in 1901, which became part of the American army. Beginning in 1910, the Philippine Scouts had their own quota at West Point of 1 cadet per year.
With the Philippines gaining autonomy in 1935, a separate Philippine army was formed under the command of American senior officers; General Douglas MacArthur, historically associated with the Philippines, became the Philippine field marshal.

However, due to a lack of funds, the army's preparations were not going well. By the time of the Japanese invasion, up to 100 thousand reservists had been trained; the only real combat unit continued to be the 12 thousand strong Philippine scouts. All of them ceased to exist during the capture of the Philippines by Japanese troops in 1942.
After the return of the Americans to Luzon in 1944, 4 infantry regiments of the Philippine Scouts were re-formed - the 43rd, 44th, 45th and 57th, as well as artillery and engineering units, which took an active part in the battles with Japanese.

Moreover, these units were part of the US Army and were given a choice when the Philippines was granted independence in 1946. Most of their military personnel chose American citizenship and continued service in the American army.
So after independence, the Philippine army had to be created anew on the basis of those scouts who agreed to serve the new state. Moreover, we immediately had to fight against the communist Huk rebels.
The Philippine battalion fought as part of the UN forces in the Korean War.

In the 1970s, the army again had to fight insurgents—communist insurgents in Luzon and Islamic separatists in Mindanao. The latest war continues intermittently to this day, now taking the form of a fight against the local affiliate of the Islamic State.
The army has 66 thousand regular personnel and 40 thousand reservists, is formed on a voluntary basis, and now women can also serve.

Thanks to history, the army was created according to the American model and is armed with American weapons, although some of them, like the M-16, have long been produced under license in the Philippines.

Of something specific nationally colorful, the equipment of a Filipino soldier includes only the curved kris blade, famous in the island world of the South Seas.
The army currently consists of 10 infantry divisions (numbered 1 through 10) and the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, equipped with second-hand American M-113s.

Plus a separate special operations command.
Each division is based in a specific region, includes from 2 to 4 brigades, in which from 6 to 12 battalions, which, in addition to numbers, have their own names and recruitment regions. The oldest is the 1st Infantry Division, with its own name "Tabak", first formed in 1935. It is she who is now fighting the Islamists in Mindanao.

The Philippine Navy has its own Marine Corps (in Tagalog - Hukbong Kaval Pandagat n'Filipinas) with 7,500 troops. It was created in 1950 and now consists of 4 battalions (including one special forces) and a dozen commands with special functions.

Marines now serve on disputed islands in the South China Sea.

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Insurance collector. The Philippine army is only capable of repelling guerrillas

Having received official independence from the United States immediately after World War II, the Philippines maintained very close ties with the former mother country, including in the military field. Most of the aircraft's equipment is American-made. Although there were deliveries from Europe, Australia, Israel. Recently, military-technical cooperation with the Republic of Korea has been actively developing.

In the Philippines there were two of the largest American military bases outside the United States - the airborne Clark Field and the naval Subic Bay, but both were liquidated in the early 90s. The country is one of the most active participants in the dispute over the Spratly Islands and surrounding waters.

The Marine Corps is considered a “branch” of the ground forces and is designed to fight partisans / Photo: armscom.net

Located in Southeast Asia, the Philippines has significant similarities with Latin American countries in a number of ways. We are talking about an unconditional orientation toward the United States, Catholicism as the dominant religion, a very high level of corruption and crime, and a very peculiar structure of the armed forces. The Philippine Armed Forces are large in number, but at the same time they are focused exclusively on counterinsurgency operations and have accumulated good experience in this area.

“The Marine Corps is considered a “branch” of the ground forces and is intended to fight partisans”

At the same time, the army is completely unprepared for a classical war, since it does not have the equipment for this. The Armed Forces do not have main tanks, self-propelled guns, MLRS, full-fledged combat helicopters, ground-based air defense systems, submarines, ships or boats with any missile weapons. The available equipment of other classes, as a rule, is very outdated, its quantity is insignificant.

The ground forces are divided into joint commands - Northern Luzon (5, 7th Infantry Divisions), Southern Luzon (2, 9th Infantry Divisions), Western, Central (3, 8th Infantry Divisions), Western Mindanao (1st infantry division, SOF and Ranger regiments), Eastern Mindanao (4th, 6th, 10th Infantry Divisions). There are 10 infantry divisions and 32 infantry brigades. In addition, the ground forces include a motorized infantry division and five engineering brigades. There is also an Army Reserve Command, which includes 27 infantry divisions.

In service are 45 British Scorpion light tanks, 45 Dutch YPR-765 infantry fighting vehicles and 6 Turkish ACV-300s, more than 500 armored personnel carriers and armored vehicles - American M113 and V-150 (268 and 137 units, respectively), British Simba (133) , Portuguese V-200 (20). Artillery includes up to 300 towed guns - mostly American M101 and Italian M-56, as well as 570 mortars - Serbian M-69B (100), American M-29 and M-30 (400 and 70). Army aviation has up to 11 American light aircraft (3–4 Cessna-172, 1 Cessna-150, 2 Cessna-R206A, up to 2 Cessna-421, up to 2 Cessna-170).

The Air Force has only 12 full-fledged combat vehicles, however, the latest South Korean FA-50 fighters. There are 2 basic patrol aircraft (1 Dutch F-27-200MPA, 1 Australian N-22SL), up to 16 American OV-10 reconnaissance aircraft. Transporters: American C-130 (5), Commander-690A, Cessna-177, Cessna-210 (one each), Dutch F-27 (2) and F-28 (1), the latest Spanish C -295 (3). Training aircraft: Italian S-211 (3) and SF-260 (22), up to 36 American T-41. The S-211 can theoretically be used as light attack aircraft. Multi-purpose and transport helicopters: American AUH-76 (up to 8), S-76 (2), Bell-412 (up to 14), MD-520MG (up to 16), S-70A (1), Bell-205 "(up to 11), UH-1 (up to 110), as well as Italian AW-109E (6) and Polish W-3A (7). AUH-76 and W-3A can be used as drums.

The Navy has 4 old American-built frigates with purely artillery weapons: 1 Raja Humabon (Canon class), 3 Gregorio Pilar (Hamilton class, from the US Coast Guard). But there are a lot of patrol ships and boats: 1 “General Alvarez” (American “Cyclone”), 3 “Emilio Jacinto” (English “Peacock”), 5-6 “Miguel Malvar” (old American minesweepers “Admirable”), 2 “ Rizal" (old American minesweepers "Ok"), 2 "Conrodo Yap" and 6 "Tomaz Batilo" (South Korean "Sea Hawk" and "Chamsuri", respectively), 2 "Kagittingan" (German built), 22 "José Andrada", 2 Alberto Navarette (Point type), 29 Swiftship. In addition, the coast guard has more than 20 patrol ships and boats. 2 Tarlac type DVKDs of Indonesian construction, including 15 TDKs - 2 Bacolod types (American Besson landing transports), up to 5 Zamboan del Sur (American LST-1/542), 1 Tabganua and 1 “Manobo” (own construction), 5 “Ivatan” (Australian “Balikpapan”).

As was said, the ships and boats of the Philippine Navy do not have any missile weapons, not even short-range air defense systems.

Naval aviation includes up to 13 aircraft (up to 8 English BN-2A, American Cessna-172 and Cessna-421) and up to 14 helicopters (up to 7 German Vo-105, 1 American R-22, 6 Italian AW-109 ).

“Russia should become an additional argument against the United States, Japan should become a counterweight to China”

The Marine Corps consists of four brigades (one is reserve), is considered a “branch” of the ground forces and is intended for counterinsurgency warfare. In addition, the Philippine Navy can only conduct limited amphibious operations within its archipelago. It is armed with 45 American armored personnel carriers (23 LAV-300, 18 V-150, 4 LVTN-6) and 56 towed guns (30 M101, 20 M-56, 6 M-71).

In June 2016, Manila won a case against Beijing in the Hague arbitration over the ownership of a number of islands and reefs in the South China Sea, but the opponent expectedly ignored this decision. On the southern island of Mindanao, the war against Islamic radicals has been going on for many years, who in 2014 swore allegiance to the Islamic State, which is banned in our country. If the terrorist bases in Iraq and Syria are completely eliminated, a significant part of the surviving militants will move to Southeast Asia, primarily to Mindanao. The battles against caliphate militants for the city of Marawi, which lasted from May to October 2017, although formally won by the Philippine army, showed the extreme limitations of its potential.

Today, the PLA Navy can organize a large-scale landing in the Philippines without any problems. Paradoxically, this would be much easier for the Chinese than for Taiwan. But its armed forces are much stronger than the Philippine army, and are also initially focused on repelling such aggression.

As the experience of the last decade shows, hopes for a military alliance with the United States have become suicidal for a number of countries and non-state actors (Georgia, Ukraine, the Syrian “opposition”). Apparently, in the near future this ranks will be joined by the Kurds, and then Taiwan, since Washington’s gigantic military power is formal. Opponents of comparable strength are too tough for him. In these cases, he turned out to be unprepared for war with Russia, and also obviously incapable of armed confrontation with China. The United States may deliberately expose its allies to attack without providing them with any real assistance.

Apparently, the new Philippine President Duterte drew certain conclusions from these facts and began a significant diversification of foreign policy. It is worth noting that many modern national leaders are still incapable of such awareness, continuing to believe that the alliance with the United States guarantees them something.

The impossibility of a military confrontation with the PRC and interest in economic cooperation with this country are forcing Duterte to move towards a significant rapprochement with Beijing. At the same time, the Philippine president is not ready for a complete break with the United States due to the presence of too close ties in the economic and military fields, as well as the need to insure against the influence of China. And in order not to be squeezed between two giants, Duterte will strengthen ties with other centers of power. Russia should become an additional argument against the United States, Japan – a counterweight to China.

In general, we can say that Duterte has, to a certain extent, changed the geopolitical situation in Southeast Asia. However, Manila's influence is limited due to its low economic, political and military potential. Coupled with internal instability, this automatically reduces the value of the Philippines as a potential ally for major powers. In particular, for Russia the country will obviously remain on the distant periphery of interests, although in words Moscow will in every possible way welcome rapprochement with Manila. For the United States and for the close neighbors of the Philippines, interest in this country will be somewhat higher, but it will not be in the center of their attention unless a new “Islamic Caliphate” arises on the territory of the Philippines. However, Manila itself hardly needs such an option.

Alexander Khramchikhin, Deputy Director of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis

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Philippine generals ask to increase the size of the army by another 20 thousand people

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, at the insistence of the generals, asked Congress for consent to increase the size of the army by another 20 thousand people to combat the growing resistance of Muslim rebels in the south of the country. As a RIA Novosti correspondent reports, there are currently 68 thousand people serving in the Philippine army and an increase in its strength by another 20 thousand will lead to an increase in budget expenditures for the maintenance of the armed forces by almost 30 percent. According to the army leadership, Muslim armed rebel groups now number at least 25 thousand militants, of which 23 thousand belong to the formations of the Muslim Moro movement. This, according to the generals, explains the fact that until now government troops in the south of the country, consisting of 5 thousand people, have not been able to suppress the resistance of the rebels. Military experts believe that in order to successfully end the war in the southern provinces, it is necessary to send up to 40 additional...

KUALA LUMPUR, December 3. /Corr. RIA Novosti Konstantin Slyusarenko/. Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, at the insistence of the generals, asked Congress for consent to increase the size of the army by another 20 thousand people to combat the growing resistance of Muslim rebels in the south of the country.

As a RIA Novosti correspondent reports, there are currently 68 thousand people serving in the Philippine army and an increase in its strength by another 20 thousand will lead to an increase in budget expenditures for the maintenance of the armed forces by almost 30 percent.

According to the army leadership, Muslim armed rebel groups now number at least 25 thousand militants, of which 23 thousand belong to the formations of the Muslim Moro movement.

This, according to the generals, explains the fact that until now government troops in the south of the country, consisting of 5 thousand people, have not been able to suppress the resistance of the rebels. Military experts believe that in order to successfully complete the war in the southern provinces, it is necessary to send up to 40 additional battalions there.

The user antinormanist talked about it quite a long time ago, so we need to talk about the main part of the Philippine ground forces.
The Philippine Army (or as it is officially known in Tagalog as Hukbong Catinan n'Filipinas) is the oldest and largest part of the country's armed forces.

Nowadays, Army Day in the Philippines is celebrated on March 22, when in 1897 the Filipino rebel forces united to fight against Spanish colonial rule.

However, due to a lack of funds, the preparation of the army was neither shaky nor slow. By the time of the Japanese invasion, up to 100 thousand reservists had been trained; the only real combat unit continued to be the 12 thousand strong Philippine scouts. All of them ceased to exist during the capture of the Philippines by Japanese troops in 1942.
After the return of the Americans to Luzon in 1944, 4 infantry regiments of the Philippine Scouts were re-formed - the 43rd, 44th, 45th and 57th, as well as artillery and engineering units, which took an active part in the battles with Japanese.

In the 1970s, the army again had to fight insurgents—communist insurgents in Luzon and Islamic separatists in Mindanao. The latest war continues intermittently to this day, now taking the form of a fight against the local branch of the Islamic State.
The army has 66 thousand regular personnel and 40 thousand reservists, is formed on a voluntary basis, and now women can also serve.

Thanks to history, the army was created according to the American model and is armed with American weapons, although some of them, like the M-16s, have long been produced under license in the Philippines.

Plus a separate special operations command.
Each division is based in a specific region, includes from 2 to 4 brigades, in which from 6 to 12 battalions, which, in addition to numbers, have their own names and recruitment regions. The oldest is the 1st Infantry Division with its own name “Tabak”, first formed in 1935. It is she who is now fighting the Islamists in Mindanao.

The Philippine Navy has its own Marine Corps (in Tagalog - Hukbong Kaval Pandagat n'Filipinas) with 7 and a half thousand troops. It was created in 1950 and now consists of 4 battalions (including one special forces) and a dozen teams with special functions.

Marines now serve on disputed islands in the South China Sea.

armed forces of the philippines, armed forces of the philippines st.
1897 - September 25, 1903
from December 21, 1935 A country

Philippines Philippines

Subordination

Philippine Department of National Defense

Type

Armed forces

Participation in

Philippine Revolution 1896-1898
Philippine-American War 1899-1903
World War II 1941-1945
Korean War
Vietnam War
Gulf War
Iraq War
Internal armed conflict in the Philippines

CommandersActing commander

Lieutenant General Delfin Bangit

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (Tagalog: Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas) is a military organization of the Philippine Republic designed to protect the freedom, independence and territorial integrity of the state. Consists of ground forces, navy and air forces.

1. History
2 General information
3 Composition of the armed forces
- 3.1 Ground forces
- 3.2 Naval forces
- 3.3 Air force
4 Notes
5 Links

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After the revolution of 1896, the Philippines began an armed struggle against Spanish colonial rule. At a meeting in the city of Tejeros, the revolutionary government, led by Emilio Aguinaldo (Tagalog Emilio Aguinaldo), announced the creation of the Philippine Army, the basis of which was the Philippine revolutionary forces, which took up arms against the Spanish troops on August 30, 1896. The war with the Spanish continued until December 10, 1898, when, under the Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all rights to the Philippines to the United States.

Because the United States refused to recognize the independence of the Philippines, the Philippine Republic declared war on the United States in 1899, which officially lasted until September 25, 1903, when the last Filipino troops, under the command of General Simeon Ola, surrendered to the Americans.

After the Philippine-American War, the Philippines became a territory dependent on the United States, and only in 1935, with the granting of greater autonomy, the formation of a new Philippine Army began, which also included the Coast Guard and the Army Air Corps.

Another armed force was the Philippine Constabulary, subordinate to the Department of the Interior.

On September 7, 1950, the Philippine government decided to send the Philippine Expeditionary Force to South Korea to help repel aggression from the North. The Philippines sent five battalions of infantry, totaling 7,420 soldiers.

On December 23, 1950, the Philippine Army received its modern name - the Armed Forces of the Philippines. They originally consisted of four main components: the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Police Force. The territory of the country was initially divided into four military districts, however, in the early 80s of the 20th century, the aggravation of the situation in the country forced the national armed forces to be reorganized again. Instead of 4 military districts, 12 regional commands were created.

General information Armed Forces of the PhilippinesTypes of armed forces: Conscription age and recruitment procedure: Human resources available for military service: Human resources suitable for military service: Human resources reaching military age annually: Military spending - percentage of GDP:

Philippine Ground Forces (Philippine Army) (Tagalog: Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas);

Philippine Navy (Tagalog: Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas), including the Marine Corps; Philippine Air Force (Tagalog: Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas)

The Armed Forces of the Philippines are composed of conscripts and volunteers aged 18 - 25 years (officers 21 - 29 years old), single and unmarried men and women, citizens of the Philippines.

men aged 16-49: 25,079,262

women aged 16-49: 24,556,912 (2010 estimate)

men aged 16-49: 19,650,825

women aged 16-49: 21,029,243 (2010 estimate)

men: 1,039,679

women: 1,001,448 (2010 estimate)

0.9% (2005 estimate), 140th place in the world

Composition of the Armed Forces Ground Forces Main article: Philippine Army Naval Forces Main article: Philippine Navy Air Force Main article: Philippine Air Force Notes

Leadership

National Defense Act.

History of the Armed Forces of the Philippines

Military of the Philippines, CIA - The World Factbook

According to data for 2010.

Based on data for 2007.

Philippines

Links

Official page of the Philippine Department of National Defense (English)
Official page of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (English)

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