The recent situation in the Middle East has attracted the attention of many military fans, but some glamorous rays on the ocean are still about to move, yes, the Philippines. On October 17, the 122nd anniversary of the Philippine Coast Guard, the new commander of the Philippine Navy and President Marcos joined the celebration at the port of Manila to announce plans to expand patrol boats. And the new commander has recently clamored for the expansion of the army, and in a short period of time, he is ready to rely on Japanese and domestic production to expand dozens of patrol ships.
According to social media reports, on October 19, the new commander of the Philippine Coast Guard, Gavan, took office, and after the handover ceremony of the old and new commanders, he responded to the media that he had coordinated with Japan and was ready to propose to Japan the idea of assisting five large patrol vessels.
According to the details, Gavan said that Japan has given the Philippines the opportunity to expand its fleet, and it hopes to get 5. In fact, as early as 2022, the Philippines received a yen loan from Japan to build two 97-meter-long patrol boats. These 2 are also the largest patrol vessels owned by the Philippine Coast Guard. However, the new commander also said that the new batch of five patrol ships has not reached an agreement with Japan this year and may require long-term preparations, but said it is moving forward smoothly. It seems that the landlord's family has no surplus food, and as far as the level of crotch pulling in the Philippines, the Japanese definitely do not want to give it for free.
In addition to requesting Japanese assistance, Marcos announced that the Philippines would purchase 40 locally produced patrol boats to strengthen the Philippine coast guard's ability to defend maritime territory. However, these patrol boats are small boats of 15 meters, which is difficult to influence large coastal patrol vessels. This is no way, after all, the Philippines' shipbuilding capacity cannot manufacture large patrol ships, and Malaysia's coastal ships are all imported from "armed ships", is it possible to also let the Philippines order large coastal patrol ships from China? That would be humiliating.
At present, the Philippine Coast Guard has only three ships (above 90 meters) that can be called large patrol vessels, of which two were built with a loan in yen in 2022. Looking at this situation, it seems that he wants to use the numerical advantage to make up for the tonnage problem, and it is necessary to compare the quantity with the China coast guard.
However, even if the so-called 40 small boats are added, it is difficult to compete with Chinese coast guard ships, such as the coast guard 5402 that appeared in the South China Sea after the implementation of the coast guard No. 1 order, which is a 4,000-ton patrol ship, and the 056 frigate has been transferred to 1,300 tons, and it is a warship specification, not to mention the latest 054 version of the coast guard ship. In addition, there is also the 12,000-ton domestic largest coastal patrol ship 2901 in the South China Sea, which is aimed at Japan's "Shikijima-class" 9,300-ton base construction of large coastal patrol ships, the tonnage has exceeded the largest ship of the Philippine Navy, which is indeed too difficult for the Philippines, and it is not an order of magnitude opponent at all.
Of course, we cannot ignore the bad influence of the Philippines' active collusion with the United States and Japan, especially whether the United States and Japan will directly provide some large patrol ships in the Philippines, such as some patrol ships retired early by Japan and the United States, and provide them to the Philippine coast guard on the grounds of assistance. Then this may greatly increase the tonnage of its maritime official ships in a short period of time, creating some trouble for our future maritime rights protection, which we have to prevent.
Generally speaking, the initiative in protecting the Philippine's maritime rights is now in our hands, and at present, it not only has effective control over Ren'ai Jiao, but also waits for the beach boat to collapse on its own. The situation on Huangyan Island is also gratifying. What's more valuable is that for Thitu Island, the second largest island in the South China Sea that the Philippines has occupied for decades and is known as the Philippines' command center in the South China Sea, we have also begun to use means, and 056A directly intercepted the supply of landing ships of the Philippine Navy. In this way, the navy to the navy, law enforcement ships to law enforcement ships, the Philippine side is passive everywhere, this corresponds to a sentence, not not to report, the time has not come, eat me will spit it out!