PH to buy SoKor fighter jets

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The Philippines will buy 12 South Korean FA-50 fighter jets to strengthen the military. The move comes in the middle of increasing tensions with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda says the FA-50s will be the first fighter jets to be operated by the air force since it retired the last of its US-designed F-5 fighters in 2005. Lacierda says the jets will be used for “training, interdiction and disaster response.” He says the planned purchase was “not aimed at any particular country” despite the new tensions with China.

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