With Black Hawk Helicopters Drones Sniper US Allies Train Near South China Sea in Philippines

The Philippine Army is hosting Exercise Salaknib 2026, a major multinational military drill involving the United States, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand at Fort Magsaysay. Footage shows troops disembarking from UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, conducting live-fire exercises with heavy machine guns, sniper rifles, grenade launchers, mortars, and deploying armed drones. The drills, running through mid-June under the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center framework, aim to boost interoperability and combat readiness amid growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region. First held in 2016 as a bilateral exercise, Salaknib has now evolved into a significant multi-nation operation supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific.
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