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Official: The Philippine Navy has just renamed the BRP 'Ilocos Norte' into BRP 'Laoag City', corroborating previous repo...
08/10/2026

Official: The Philippine Navy has just renamed the BRP 'Ilocos Norte' into BRP 'Laoag City', corroborating previous reports presented on our social media channels.

This come as a Philippine Coast Guard vessel already bears the name of BRP Ilocos Norte, which likely prompted the necessary change of the name on the Philippine Navy's third landing platform dock.

Bearing LD603, Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL aims to accomplish the construction of this ship before the year ends.



(C) Andy Febriand, X (formerly Twitter)

Images: After 2 years of intensive maintenance and repairs, the sole ship BRP Conrado Yap (PS30) of the Pohang class cor...
08/10/2026

Images: After 2 years of intensive maintenance and repairs, the sole ship BRP Conrado Yap (PS30) of the Pohang class corvettes bought from South Korea is seen mooring in Macabalan Port, Cagayan de Oro.

This suggest that the vessel is now returning back to service after its two years of inactivity, and is now active and ready to serve the Philippine Navy's offshore combat force fleet.

There are no details on its area of responsibility for its patrolling, the fact that it is now operational increases the availability of ships needed for deployment.



Images from CDODev.Com page.

After months of maintenance overhaul, the lead ship of its class BRP Emilio Jacinto (PS35) has returned back into servic...
06/10/2026

After months of maintenance overhaul, the lead ship of its class BRP Emilio Jacinto (PS35) has returned back into service and is now assigned into the Western Mindanao area for its operations.

Given the Western Mindanao is an area of low intensity compared to highly heated and contested areas like the West Philippine Sea, its deployment fits its purpose as a patrol vessel, which at one point served as a mainstay of the Philippine Navy fleet before newer naval assets introduced in the Revised AFP Modernization Program surpassed its capabilities.

A Peacock-class patrol boat from the United Kingdom, the Philippine Navy maintains three (3) of the said vessels, the other being the BRP Apolinario Mabini (PS36) and BRP Artemio Ricarte (PS37).



Image from the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM), Facebook.

06/10/2026

The LD603, which might bear its future name of BRP Laoag City, now undertakes fitting process in PT PAL's Surabaya shipyard.

This form one of two (2) ships of the Landing Docks Acquisition Project, itself an improvement over the Tarlac-class Landing Platform Dock, which are also a product made by PT PAL.

Apparently, the Indonesian shipbuilder aims to have this ship delivered before the year-end.



Video from MARKICAP on X, formerly Twitter.

Images: The Philippine Coast Guard has just commissioned its newest ship, the BRP Sarangani (6177).Contrary to the previ...
02/10/2026

Images: The Philippine Coast Guard has just commissioned its newest ship, the BRP Sarangani (6177).

Contrary to the previous reports, the actual vessel transferred by Taiwan to the Philippines through the WPS Foundation was actually the Kinmen (CG123) and not its sistership the Lienchiang (CG125).

The turnover took place on September 21, 2026 as per official disclosure made by WPS Foundation on its X (formerly Twitter) Account, with the commissioning ceremony only took place earlier today, October 2.

This development is significant in Taiwanese-Philippine ties since the incident involving a Philippine Coast Guard vessel and a Taiwanese fishing vessel near Batanes in 2013, signifying growing cooperation between both nations.

Prior to commissioning, the WPS Foundation reportedly donated this ship as a training vessel to the Philippine Coast Guard, serving as a stepping stone for future PCG personnel that will likely get assigned on other vessels in the maritime law enforcement agency'a white hull fleet.



Images from the Philippine Coast Guard, shared via WPS Foundation X (formerly Twitter) account.

There were rounds circulating the Indonesian defense webs lately that the Philippine Navy might have renamed the LD603 i...
01/10/2026

There were rounds circulating the Indonesian defense webs lately that the Philippine Navy might have renamed the LD603 into something else other than its original name - BRP Ilocos Norte.

It is not surprising as there is another ship in service that still bear the same name, which is the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Ilocos Norte (SARV-3501), which is a lead ship of its class of search and rescue vessels (as for its official classification or SARV).

Apparently, sources shared to Pitz Defense Analysis that LD603 will likely bear its new name, which will be the future BRP Laoag City.

It is still not final given that it lacks added verification from other sources, although it is not surprising if the leadership in the Philippine Navy will chose it as its new name as Laoag City itself is the provincial capital of Ilocos Norte.



Image from Kristian Lobo.

While the headlines in the Philippine media usually comes with the country's perspective in actively monitoring Chinese ...
30/09/2026

While the headlines in the Philippine media usually comes with the country's perspective in actively monitoring Chinese activity in the West Philippine Sea, this is actually what it looks like when looked from their perspective.

Monitored by China's Combat Patrol that is stationed illegally in Bajo de Masinloc well within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone, they detected the BRP Antonio Luna (FFG15) of the Philippine Navy, a single Fokker F-27 aircraft of the Philippine Air Force, and a PA-31 most likely belonging to the Philippine Coast Guard.

This is the latest posture of the Chinese forces in their recent incursions well within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone particularly in the Bajo de Masinloc, where their objective is to keep hold of the shoal for as much as possible.



From China Combat Patrol, shared by Aaron-Matthew Lariosa on X (formerly Twitter).

Size difference: Philippine Navy's BRP Rajah Lakandula (PS21) moors aside a Jacinto-class patrol vessel in a port somewh...
30/09/2026

Size difference: Philippine Navy's BRP Rajah Lakandula (PS21) moors aside a Jacinto-class patrol vessel in a port somewhere in Eastern Mindanao.

It is a testament of how far the Philippine Navy have become, given that the Jacinto-class patrol vessels were considered the most advanced warships in the fleet at the turn of the century, where the bulk still composed of old World War 2 era hulls.

Additional Rajah Sulayman class OPVs will likely soon the fleet once delivered to the Philippine Navy before this year comes to an end, while the plans for additional Chamsuri-II PKMRs will help the Jacinto-class patrol vessels and the Acero-class FAIC-Ms patrol the country's littoral waters.



Image from 723rd NROTC Unit AFP FB Page.

Recent reports unfolded developments involving both China and the Philippines, where this time it does not involve the W...
30/09/2026

Recent reports unfolded developments involving both China and the Philippines, where this time it does not involve the West Philippine Sea itself.

The overflight conducted by the Philippine Coast Guard detected a Chinese research vessel off the coast of Itbayat, Batanes, suspiciously loitering within the Philippine exclusive economic zone.

An ideal chokepoint between Taiwan and the Philippines, the Bashi channel sits right near the province of Batanes where the spotting of the said research vessel occured.

Recently, the so-called 'Chinese scholars' claim that the said Philippine province were part of China, through Taiwan. This was then refuted by both the Philippine government and scholars in the University of the Philippines.

The detections took place are just the recent incidents that took place involving Chinese vessels intruding Philippine territory.



The Philippine Coast Guard has challenged a China Coast Guard vessel near Cabra Island in Occidental Mindoro and tracked a Chinese research ship off Batanes.

This is a short service advisory. Full activity will return once attributive factors as mentioned gets resolved.For now,...
29/09/2026

This is a short service advisory. Full activity will return once attributive factors as mentioned gets resolved.

For now, there will be less cadence in posting defense updates from all of our social media sites during the hiatus.

Thank you for understanding.

This is an important announcement from the management entity of Pitz Defense Analysis, which includes this update website that it associates. It is usually hard to provide announcement like this, but our avid readers like you who currently stumble on this webpage deserves to know this development.

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