Japan on 21/6 was first put P3-C aircraft of maritime defense forces to the city of Palawan Island of the Philippines in the South China Sea to participate in joint exercises.

According to the news on Kyodo News, the P3-C included 20 members of the MSDF stationed in Kanoya Air Base to the Philippines' Puerto Princesa City.

From 23/6 to, the Filipino soldiers will board the plane to perform flights over international waters in the South China Sea.



According to Kyodo, the exercise this time aimed at humanitarian, focusing on improving the capacity of search and rescue at sea when there is a disaster.

Tomohisa Takei Admiral, Commander MSDF stressed, exercise does not include operating and monitoring alerts.
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P3-C aircraft equipped cruise sensitive sensor capable of detecting enemy submarines operating in the sea.

The exercise is seen as a chance to express the cooperation between Tokyo and Manila in the context of China is promoting the rehabilitation and construction of infrastructure on the rocks in the sea.

P3-C aircraft equipped cruise sensitive sensor capable of detecting enemy submarines operating in the sea, especially the submarine is considered extremely noisy as Chinese submarine Korea. P3-C has been put to use in decades and remains one of the submarine hunting aircraft most efficient in the world.

Before that, earlier this month, and Philippine President Benigno Aquino Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to discuss the treaty transfer equipment and defense technology related to disaster relief and maritime security.

Together with the maneuvers with Japan, the Philippines today (22/6) will be carried out joint naval exercises with the United States in east Palawan.

A helicopter protect Japanese coast guard ships fly over coast of the Philippines.

Although not on the side of the South China Sea dispute, but both the US and Japan have expressed concern that China will change the status quo in the South China Sea by force.

16/6 Today, China announced a nearly finished renovating the rocks in the Spratlys belong to Vietnam, and announced a series of lists of upcoming infrastructure construction. Vietnam protests China repeatedly violated the collective agreement and request to immediately stop this illegal activity.

The US side also voiced that the move constantly renovated on South China Sea does not prove China wants to scale tensions in the region, and expressed concern that Beijing will build military facilities on artificial islands .