Military-grade lasers are used for fixing targets' exact locations in modern high-tech warfare.
I CERTAINLY hope it is just coincidental, but a Chinese coast guard's recent blocking of a Philippine Coast Guard ship delivering supplies to a platoon of Marines stationed at the Ayungin Shoal could be China's first response to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s recent moves to place the country in alliance with the United States.Marcos on February 2 agreed to allow the US to use as it pleases four more of our military camps under the 2014 Enhanced Cooperation Defense Agreement.
However, China's rule was that the Philippines cannot supply the contingent with any material they could use to protect it from degradation, much less repair the ship. Thus, exposure to the elements and especially rust have made the BRP Sierra Madre over the years look like a phantom ship.Ignorant US and Filipino writers have romanticized it as a poor country's heroic defiance of a superpower.
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