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This is a list of equipment used by the Philippine Air Force (PAF), the branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that specializes in aerial warfare. It covers active equipment, such as aircraft, ordnances, air defenses, and retired aircraft inventory.
On 23 March 1970 the No.603 Research Institute was tasked with developing a strategic bomber to be designated H-8, to reduce costs and development time the Xian H-6 airframe was used as a baseline. The first working sample was expected to be completed in 1973, and production was expected to be as early as in 1974. [1]
This order created the Philippine Naval Patrol and the Air Force as equal branches of the Philippine Army and the Philippine Constabulary under the now Armed Forces of the Philippines [8] becoming Southeast Asia's third air force as a result. The main aircraft type in the earlier era of the PAF was the P-51 Mustang, flown from 1947 to 1959 ...
Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes Fixed-wing Aircraft BN-2 Islander: United Kingdom: SAR: BN-2A 2 Cessna 208 Caravan: United States: SAR: 208EX 1 [14] 1 on order. [14] Helicopters MBB Bo 105: Germany: SAR: Bo 105C 1 1 of 2 grounded. [15] Airbus H145: Germany SAR: H145 2 [16] [17]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday backed a decision by his predecessor to cancel a deal to buy 16 Russian military heavy-lift helicopters and said ...
H8, H08 or H-8 may stand for: H-8 bomber, a 1970s Chinese military aircraft; H8 Family, a 1990s large family of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers made by Hitachi (Renesas Technology) H08 microcontroller from Hycon Technology; H-8, a 1958 Yugoslav movie; H-8, a sector in Islamabad, Pakistan; H8 Standing Way, a road in Milton Keynes grid road system
An Italian carrier strike group on its first deployment to the Indo-Pacific region will sail through the South China Sea to the Philippines after participating in war games with U.S. allies in ...
The Xi'an H-6 (Chinese: 轰-6; pinyin: Hōng-6) [a] is a twin-engine jet bomber of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The H-6 is a license-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 and remains the primary bomber aircraft of the People's Republic of China.