Russia has offered to sell the Philippines a range of military hardware, including combat aircraft and attack helicopters, a military top official said last week.
“The Russian defense minister offered a lot of things – ships, submarines, aircrafts, and helicopters. We will look into that because we should buy in accordance with our modernization plan… We will buy smart,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenza said in a press conference on Thursday, January 26.
“We are interested in their specialized rifles, like the sniper rifles…. We are also thinking of buying… we’ll find out that they have good quality UAVs or drones. We might be able to consider those,” he said.
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