The vast majority of the Philippines' weapons and equipment are also obtained from military purchases, including BrahMos cruise missiles purchased from India, and in the process of delivering this type of cruise missiles to the Philippines, India has used the country's C-17 strategic transport aircraft and Il-76 strategic transport aircraft, which are also strategic transport aircraft produced by Russia and United States, respectively. In recent years, India is constantly seeking overseas exports of weapons and equipment, but due to the well-known performance reasons and unreliability of India's weapons and equipment, there are very few countries seeking India's equipment, and now the Philippines has purchased BrahMos cruise missiles, and also claims that these cruise missiles can cover China's Scarborough Shoal in range, while posing a threat to a large number of ships in the waters near Ren'ai Jiao on the mainland.
Although China has signed an understanding with the Philippines on the Ren'ai Jiao issue, the Philippine side is still very tough and is maliciously taking advantage of China's goodwill. Philippine President Marks Jr. pointed out that he would not make concessions on the South China Sea issue, and the War Research Institute believes that such a statement actually shows that the Philippines will continue to argue with China to the end. Nowadays, more and more NATO members are currently strengthening their force projection capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region, including sending aircraft carriers to the Indo-Pacific region, the Italy Navy's aircraft carrier Cavour is scheduled to dock in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, in the coming period.
The strong support for the deployment of aircraft carriers and the backing of medium-range ballistic missiles have actually emboldened the Philippines to come to China with confidence. Judging from the current number of troops sent by the mainland to the vicinity of Ren'ai Jiao, the mainland is currently mobilizing a large number of coast guard forces, and the coast guard is also called the mainland's second navy, but in fact, the main task of the coast guard is to complete the task of safeguarding maritime rights and law enforcement, not military combat missions, so in terms of weapons and equipment, the coast guard and the navy are also obviously different. Although the coast guard is currently equipped with Type 056 frigates, a large number of lethal weapons have been dismantled on such frigates, including air defense weapons, so the mainland's coast guard air defense combat strength is relatively weak, but according to media reports, the mainland coast guard ships have been only 35 nautical miles away from the western coast of the Philippines in recent days.
Philippine media currently reported a news that a 056 type frigate transferred from the coast guard ship and a 3000-ton coast guard ship appeared on the western coast of the Philippines to patrol, unlike before, the two coast guard ships have arrived close to the Philippines about 35 nautical miles, which also makes the Philippine media call China is carrying out an intrusive patrol, in fact, China's change of offensive and defensive posture is also to better warn the Philippines.
At present, the PLA has been slow to use a large number of 052D missile destroyers and Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyers to carry out operations, and the war research believes that the PLA still believes that these high-end weapons are not necessary for the Philippines, and the main purpose of these high-end weapons is to complete the regional denial against United States and deal with high-end opponents of equal strength. Text/Iris