FACT CHECK: ZERO budget for AFP Modernization Program is FALSE
The AFP Modernization Program received P27.5 billion in 2023, P40 billion in 2024, and P35 billion in 2025.
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FACT CHECK: NO warships from Japan
A YouTube video bore a clickbait headline and thumbnail claiming that Japan has given the Philippines two destroyer warships.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: The British Royal Navy is NOT gifting a warship to the PH
A YouTube video claims that the UK’s Royal Navy recently handed over its warship HMS Dauntless to the Philippine Navy. This is not true.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO bomber plane ‘gift’ from U.S.
A YouTube channel uploaded old clips from an aerospace exhibition and falsely claimed that the bomber planes from the United States are now in the Philippines.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video DOES NOT show Philippines’ ‘newly-acquired’ submarine in Palawan
A YouTube channel claimed to show a video of the Philippines’ first-ever nuclear submarine. This is false. The Spanish Navy owns the submarine in the clip.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video shows US aircraft, NOT ‘Pinoy-made’ fighter jet
A YouTube channel published a video that claims to show a P30-million fighter jet manufactured by a Filipino. This is false. It passed off as locally-made an aircraft manufactured by Boeing, an American aerospace corporation.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Arrival of Philippines’ first nuclear submarine NOT TRUE
A YouTube video claimed the Philippines’ first nuclear submarine has arrived. This is not true. The Philippines has not acquired any submarine recently.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post praising Duterte, Marcos Jr. for AFP modernization MISLEADS
Only one photo in the collage featured a ship currently in the AFP’s fleet inventory.
