00:00In other news, the flagship of the Philippine Navy Vessel, BRP Unserizal,
00:06was caught in the 8th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity
00:10in Bajo de Masinloc in the West Philippine Sea.
00:13This is Patrick de Jesus live. Patrick?
00:18Maan, the warship of China, which was monitored and killed
00:23by the Philippine Navy Vessel,
00:26was caught in the 8th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity in Bajo de Masinloc in the West Philippine Sea.
00:35The ships of the Philippines, US and Japan,
00:39were caught in the 8th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity or MMCA
00:43in the West Philippine Sea,
00:45which was carried out 31 nautical miles from the eastern part of Bajo de Masinloc.
00:49This is the 3rd MMCA carried out this year.
00:53The flagship of the Philippine Navy Vessel, BRP Unserizal,
00:57was caught in the Philippines while the guided missile destroyer,
01:00USS Shoup in the US, and the multi-mission frigate JS Noshiro of Japan.
01:04Another warship was spotted, but it was from China.
01:09Here in Division Tactics, the formation of the ships was formed.
01:13First, the flagship vessel of the Philippine Navy,
01:16this BRP Unserizal that we are driving now.
01:19At the back, the guided missile destroyer of the US Navy,
01:23the USS Shoup, while at the front, the JS Noshiro of Japan.
01:27If you will notice, there is another ship that is far away.
01:31It is not part of the MMCA
01:33because it is from the People's Liberation Army or PLA Navy of China
01:39that continues to carry out activities here.
01:43It did not approach the ships that covered 8 nautical miles
01:47from the training area and was referred to as a Junkie-class frigate with a bow number 574.
01:54Because of our constant challenge to them,
01:56they responded that they are just conducting normal navigation.
02:00There was a time around midnoon,
02:02they actually attempted to maneuver closely,
02:07but again we challenged them and we asked of their intent
02:12and then they altered their course.
02:14Despite the presence of the warship of China,
02:16which continues other activities in the MMCA,
02:20such as personal exchange,
02:22or the temporary exchange of ships' personnel,
02:25one of the participants from the US Navy
02:28is the bloodthirsty Filipino, QMC Mark Rufo,
02:31where he participated in the BRP Unserizal.
02:34The ship here is beautiful.
02:37Everything here is fantastic.
02:39It's good that I saw the Navy here.
02:43Various aerial assets were also transferred
02:45for Rotary Flight Operations and Intelligence,
02:48Surveillance and Reconnaissance or ISR operations,
02:51including the Augusta Westland 109 helicopter of the Philippine Navy.
02:56The MMCA was successful in not having a toward incident.
03:00This kind of exercise,
03:02we are trying to test out the capabilities that we have now,
03:07given our new platforms.
03:09And I think we are at par with other countries
03:12now that we have modern platforms.
03:14And second, we were able to inter-operate with them.
03:21Despite the activities that were conducted in the MMCA today,
03:25the communications exercise and the maneuvering exercise,
03:29will be shown by the Philippines, the US and Japan
03:33in a rules-based order and freedom of navigation here in the West Philippine Sea.
03:38And Maan, now let's ride this BRP Unserizal,
03:44which is a guided missile and anti-submarine capable frigate.
03:50Maan.
