{"id":462456,"date":"2026-10-26T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/?p=462456"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:43:01","slug":"usa-japan-philippines-conduct-maritime-cooperative-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/usa-japan-philippines-conduct-maritime-cooperative-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"USA, Japan, Philippines conduct Maritime Cooperative Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armed Forces of the Philippines, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and U.S. Coast Guard conducted a multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone on October 24, according to the U.S. Pacific Command Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 14th MCA of 2026, which lasted five days and focused on tactical interoperability, including maritime domain awareness, maritime law enforcement, and search and rescue to build at-sea proficiency. This iteration complemented the work developed and refined in prior MCAs.<\/p>\n<p>Participating units included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one AW159 Wildcat helicopter and one C208 Caravan aircraft from the Philippine Air Force;<\/li>\n<li>Parola-class patrol vessel BRP Suluan (MRRV 4406) from the Philippine Coast Guard;<\/li>\n<li>Miguel Malvar-class guided-missile frigate BRP Diego Silang (FFG 07) from the Philippine Navy;<\/li>\n<li>Murasame-class destroyer JS Kirisame (DD 104) from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force;<\/li>\n<li>Legend-class maritime security cutter USCGC Bertholf (WMSL 750) from the U.S. Coast Guard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This activity continues to showcase our demonstrated, collective commitment to strengthening regional and international cooperation in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armed Forces of the Philippines, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and U.S. Coast Guard conducted a multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone on October 24, according to the U.S. Pacific Command Public Affairs. This was the 14th MCA of 2026, which lasted five days and focused on tactical interoperability, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":462463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4509],"tags":[67310,67313,67312,67311,67314,67315],"sektor":[],"urun":[],"sehir":[],"class_list":["post-462456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines-en-tr","tag-aw159-wildcat","tag-brp-diego-silang","tag-brp-suluan","tag-c208-caravan","tag-js-kirisame","tag-uscgc-bertholf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462456"},{"taxonomy":"sektor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sektor?post=462456"},{"taxonomy":"urun","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/urun?post=462456"},{"taxonomy":"sehir","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sehir?post=462456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}