Hanoi, (VNA) –The Republic of Korea (RoK) on March 29 transferred two more FA-50 PH fighterjets to the Philippine military, bringing its total number of fighter jets toeight.
The Philippine AirForce announced that the two new fighter jets are now parked at a hangar inClark Air Base in Pangpanga province, north of Manila.
Under the Philippinemilitary’s modernisation programme, the two fighter jets are part of 12supersonic trainers bought for 376.9 million USD in 2014 from the RoK aircraftmaker Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) by the Benigno Aquino administration.
The first batch offighter jets arrived in the Philippines in November 2015. The RoK will transferthe rest to the Philippines in September.-VNA