For the first time in the Southeast Asian region, the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet launches a precision weapon at a target. To be precise, in the United States and the Philippines Bilateral Exercise "Balikatan 2023", a target was destroyed in the form of the ex-corvette BRP Pangasinan belonging to the Philippine Navy by taking a location in the South China Sea.
Using a JDAM laser-guided smart bomb, a US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 122 F-35B from USS Makin Island managed to sink BRP Pangasinan, a World War II-era corvette with precise shots. causing a huge explosion and dissecting the ship's hull.
Quoted from philstar.com (27/4/2023), using modern warfare weapons, joint forces of the United States and the Philippines fired rockets and sank a ship 12 nautical miles off the coast of San Antonio, Zambales overlooking the South China Sea yesterday, showing how troops The Philippines and America can work together to destroy an approaching ship. enemy ship.
However, the Wall Street Journal portal says otherwise, that the show for most of the weapons from the US is far from perfect. For example, the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) rocket, which made the first shot at a warship 12 miles from the launcher, missed six of its rockets, even though the HIMARS launcher was placed on the coast of a naval base.
Only after that, the known target was the former BRP Pangasinan corvette, destroyed by a precision strike from an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet.
Approximately 1,400 Marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Coast Guards from the two countries are participating in Balikatan 2023, which involves the detection, identification, targeting and attack of ship targets using a variety of ground and air-based weapon systems.
In this combat exercise, US and Philippine weapons platforms were deployed, such as HIMARS artillery, Avenger air defense systems, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, FA-50 Golden Eagle attack aircraft from the Philippine Air Force, US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, F USMC -35B and the US Air Force Special Operations Command's AC-130 Specter gunship.
The training is a true demonstration of the US-Philippines commitment to strengthening military capabilities and interoperability to meet shared modern security challenges.
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