00:00The PNP Maritime Group in the Senate confirmed that the underwater drone found in Masbate in December was made in China.
00:10However, it is hard to say where it came from because no country promises it.
00:18Ma'am Gonzales was right.
00:21These fishermen thought it was a buoy or a bomb that they caught in the sea of San Pascual, Masbate on December 30.
00:30We passed by it. I thought it was just a buoy.
00:36When we got closer, I saw that there was a big body.
00:44My sister said it was a bomb.
00:49My friend told me not to touch the antenna because it might explode.
00:56I didn't touch it.
00:58When it was turned over to the PNP and the Philippine Navy, it became a submersible drone.
01:03It is a Chinese-made submersible drone.
01:06In our commercial enterprises, no one uses such submersible drones.
01:12That's why we surmise that this is not commercially available but of a military grade.
01:19This is a copy of what the Senate Special Committee on Philippine Maritime and Admiralty Zones found in a Chinese Sea Wing Haiyi Glider.
01:27The drone has a marking of HY-119 that was caught by fishermen in Masbate.
01:33I already mentioned the meaning of HY-119 or Sea Wing Glider from Taijin, China.
01:47That's an option. That's for sure. We can file a diplomatic protest.
01:51But the diplomatic protest needs to be supported by a formal result that came up by our Philippine Navy.
01:59This drone is considered as a civilian vessel, autonomous vessel, or just a part of a reconnaissance from a mothership.
02:10This drone is a part of the invasion of other countries in our ocean.
02:18Paniniktik. Espionage.
02:22Based on the open source, it's a data gathering equipment.
02:28All information that this equipment can gather has commercial, scientific, and military use.
02:37It can conduct mapping of the subsurface.
02:40All of those are important for any countries that has subsurface capability, subsurface warfare capability.
02:48We are treating it as a national security matter.
02:52But our government hasn't filed a case or protest yet because no country is admitting that this is their drone.
02:58We have not received any information as expected from any foreign state to claim ownership of the submersible.
03:05If China asks it, well, we're going to protest instead.
03:11If you admit that this is your drone.
03:14According to the DND, it's hard to determine where the drone came from because they don't know when it was released and it only follows the waters.
03:22Before this, there were four similar incidents that were monitored by the government.
03:27There may be more, but the Philippine Navy's anti-submarine warfare capability is limited while the Philippine Coast Guard has no capacity here.
03:36Can this be from a monster ship?
03:41The monster ship that is loitering in Baudi, Mazinloc.
03:45All platforms, sir, like what you said, can be dropped from the air.
03:49It can be launched probably from another submarine or from a surface vessel.
03:54So everything, sir, is a possibility.
03:57The Philippine Navy's investigation is still ongoing.
03:59It's taking a long time because they are being careful not to damage the drone while destroying it.
04:04The Department of Foreign Affairs is convinced that China will not ask for it.
04:08If they ask it back, it means that there may be data hidden inside.
04:14Maybe there's something dangerous there.
04:17If they withdraw from the Scarborough Shoal, if they withdraw the monster ship,
04:22if they withdraw the ships that are harassing us for supplying the Sierra Madre,
04:29we might consider it, but they're not going to ask it back, sir.
04:33Because it's admitting that they're violating a territorial sea.
04:38For GMA Integrated News, Mav Gonzales speaking for 24 Hours.
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