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A committee is now evaluating the best and most affordable missile which will be hopefully installed on the country's two Hamilton-class cutters now in service at the Philippine Navy (PN). The Department of National Defense (DND) observer said that missiles being evaluated are the anti-ship type which will give the BRP Gregorio Del Pilar (PF-15) and BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16) more capability in protecting the country's maritime domain. Having the anti-missiles will also give the two ships more firepower in engaging would-be poachers and intruders. The DND official declined to identify the exact type of missile being studied and stressed that the matter is "top secret". Some defense officials earlier said that the Harpoon is the ideal missile system for the PN's Hamilton-class cutters as the weapon was already deployed aboard the USCGC Mellon, the sister ship of the BRP Gregorio Del Pilar and BRP Ramon Alcaraz, in January 1990. The USCGC Mellon also re...

He started playing darts to while away time. But after barely four years in the sport and earning the recognition as the seventh best player in the world, Filipino Bryan Elibar III is advocating the throwing of the tiny spear to help kids learn the game and excel in math as well. The Quezon City-born Eribal who now calls Barangay Balubad in Porac town in Pampanga his home, is, in fact, embarking on a Darts Game Clinic-School Caravan province-wide for the purpose. "In playing the sport, which people believe to be only a parlor game played mostly in dark corners of beer houses, I've realized, like the Europeans, most particularly the British did, that it, indeed, is a great way for kids to learn math even without them realizing it," the 33-year-old triggerman bared during the recent SCOOP session at the Kamayan Restaurant in Manila. "Habang naglalaro ka kasi, players have to make instant mental calculations quickly -- adding, multiplying and subtracting the...