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  2. List of equipment of the Philippine Air Force - Wikipedia

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    Air surveillance radar: 1 mobile radar system delivered free under the Air Surveillance Radar Phase 1 Project. [23] Mitsubishi Electric J/FPS-3ME Japan: Air surveillance radar: 3 fixed radar systems to be delivered under the Air Surveillance Radar Phase 2 Project. [25] [26] [27] The first unit was fully delivered in October 2023. [28]

  3. 14th Bombardment Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The air echelon of the squadron was evacuated to Batchelor Field, Australia on 24 December 1941, while the ground echelon stayed to fight at Clark Field, as infantry in the Philippines as part of the Battle of the Philippines under the command of 5th Interceptor Command.

  4. Military history of the Philippines during World War II

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    The air echelon squadrons of the 7th were en route to the Philippines and arrived in Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941. They consisted of 9th, 463rd, 492nd, and 493d Heavy Bombardment Squadrons. The air echelon was diverted back to the US and then routed to Java through Australia.

  5. Philippine Air Force - Wikipedia

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    Former F-5A Freedom Fighter of the Philippine Air Force The AS-211 Warrior jet trainer/light attack aircraft, which served as "gap stopper" for the PAF in its air defense operations Since the retirement of the Northrop F-5s in September 2005 without a planned replacement, the Philippine Air Force was left without fighter jets.

  6. 523d Fighter Squadron - Wikipedia

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    Re-equipped with Douglas A-24 Dauntless dive bombers, then in late 1941, ordered to Philippine Air Force in response to the growing crisis in the Pacific. Ground echelon arrived in Philippines in late November 1941, however outbreak of World War II in the Pacific caused A-24 aircraft to be diverted to Australia.

  7. Philippine Army Air Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Air Corps was created by the Philippine National Assembly's National Defense Act of 1935 in its first legislative act. [1]General Douglas MacArthur, convinced by his friend Philippine President-elect Manuel L. Quezon and with President Roosevelt's agreement to leave his position as Chief of Staff, become Military Adviser to the Commonwealth Government in 1935. [2]

  8. List of equipment of the Philippine Army - Wikipedia

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    651 units of KM-450 trucks were purchased by AFP in 2007 (603 for Army, the rest shared by General Headquarters and Philippine Air Force), and 137 units in December 2010. [41] [42] 190 more were delivered in 2013. 60 units of KM-451 were purchased by AFP in 2012, of which 48 went to the Army.

  9. 17th Weapons Squadron - Wikipedia

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    Air echelon operated from Lubao Field, Luzon, Philippines, 25–31 December 1941 Air echelon operated from Del Monte Airfield, Mindanao, Philippines, c. 8 April–May 1942. Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 1 December 1971 – 15 November 1974; Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, 1 July 1982 – 31 December 1993