The Philippines is due to receive its third frigate by November this year under the United States programme to transfer excess defence articles.
According to the US Coast Guard news website, the US government was to transfer the cutter, Boutwell, on Thursday.
The US Coast Guard base in Alameda, California, was mentioned as the venue for the tranfer ceremonies. “The decommissioned cutter was declared an excess government asset and is being transferred to the Philippines through the Excess Defence Articles programme,” the website said.
Upon its transfer to the Philippine government, the Boutwell would be named after one of the country’s most famous sons, Andres Bonifacio, who fought against Spanish colonialists during the latter part of the 1800s.
The Boutwell was decommissioned on March 16 after serving the US Coast Guard for 50 years. It is the US Coast Guard’s longest-serving cutter and was named after the former Secretary of the Treasury, George Sewall Boutwell.
الفليبين ستستلم ثالث فرقاطه في نوفمبر 2016 تحت برنامج تحويل الفائض الامريكي من السلاح حسب الموقع الاكتروني لحرس السواحل الامريكي
وقالت قاعده حرس السواحل الامريكي في المادا / كاليفورنيا بان القطعه البحريه Boutwell الخارجه عن الخدمه اعتبرت فائضا وسيتم تحويلها للفليبين تحت برنامج تحويل الفائض الامريكي من السلاح
هذه القطعه البحريه خرجت من الخدمه في 16 مارس الماضي بعد خدمه ل 50 سنه
موضوع: الفليبين ستستلم قريبا قطعه بحريه من الولايات المتحده 
الخميس يوليو 21 2016, 15:29
