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Multi-Nation Combat Drills
The Philippine holds the annual military Exercise Salaknib 2026 with the United States Army, the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force, the Australian Army, and the New Zealand Army participating.
Footage filmed at Fort Magsaysay on Thursday, shows troops disembarking from a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, firing different kinds of weapons, including a heavy machine gun, bazooka, grenade launcher and sniper rifle, as well as flying drones.
Boosting Regional Readiness
Running through mid-June, the drills leverage the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center-Exportable (JPMRC-X) framework to rigorously evaluate troop readiness. The multi-nation convergence is a strategic response to reinforce the principles of a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ amid rising regional geopolitical tensions.
First conducted in 2016, the Exercise Salaknib has transitioned from a bilateral US-Philippine event into a large-scale operation.
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