Welcome

We commit this site to the spirited Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), visionary Filipinos on the web and optimistic Filipinos who presently dreamt of having armed forces who can secure its utmost freedom. The Filipino soldier is sincere in its job, but sincerity is not enough, he needs to be fully mission-effective, credibly equipped, versatile and highly responsive to technological change.

This site is a compilation of photos, and descriptions of past and present arms and equipment of the armed forces of the Philippines from different web sites dedicated to the same cause we have. Thus, this site aims to collect numerous Philippine military sites fragmented within the net and link them to us as our sources.  

We hope readers will be more informed and sympathetic instead of embarrassed.


History

The origin of the AFP could be traced to the Tejeros Convention in 1897-where the revolutionary government of General Emilio Aguinaldo created the Philippine Army under Captain General Artemio Ricarte. This Army was the off-shoot of the Revolutionary Forces, which took arms against the Spanish Government from 1896 - 1898 when the treaty of Paris was entered into by the United States of America and Spain. The same Army engaged the Americans during the hostilities between the Philippines and the United States which began on 1899 - 1903 - when the last of Filipino Generals, General Simeon Ola surrendered to the Americans. During the Phil-American War the Philippine Scouts  was established in 1901 by the United States to assist in combating the Philippine revolution. The AFP was formally organized during the American Commonwealth era through Commonwealth Act No. 1 or the National Defense Act of December 21, 1935.