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Plans are also being laid out for the procurement of a gun-based air-defense systems, and medium-ranged air-defense systems, wherein both are part of the Horizon 3 phase of the AFP Modernization Program. Under the medium-ranged air-defense system acquisition program, the main contenders for the program are the SPYDER MR, the IRIS-T SLM, and the ...
On December 11, 2012, President Benigno Aquino III amended by Republic Act No. 10349, also known as the Revised AFP Modernization Act, which extends the modernization program for another 15 years with an initial budget of ₱75 billion for the first five years in order to continue modernizing all the branches of the AFP.
The following is a list of active military aircraft of the Philippines. Air Force Main article: List of equipment of the Philippine Air Force § Current inventory
Air surveillance radar: 1 mobile radar system delivered free under the Air Surveillance Radar Phase 1 Project. [24] Mitsubishi Electric J/FPS-3ME Japan: Air surveillance radar: 3 fixed radar systems to be delivered under the Air Surveillance Radar Phase 2 Project. [26] [27] [28] The first unit was fully delivered in October 2023. [29]
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]
The US has approved a $2 billion arms sale to Taiwan that includes missile and radar systems. The potential sale would include three NASAMS air-defense systems. NASAMS have been used by Ukrainian ...
Specifically, Section 12 of this Act mandates that "the government arsenal shall be utilized in the production of basic weapons, ammunition and other munitions for the use of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police (PNP), as well as for the sale and export of products in excess of AFP/PNP requirements." [4]
Foreign governments submit a Letter of Request (LOR) to a U.S. government Security Cooperation Organization (SCO), typically the Office of Defense Cooperation within the U.S. embassy in that country or directly to the DSCA or to a U.S. military department (Department of the Army, Department of the Navy or Department of the Air Force) or another Defense Department agency. [4]