Tag: "philippine navy mpac"
Philippine Navy locally made Attack Craft and Landing Craft Utility
Philippine spyplanes - our own version of drones
Yesterday we published the latest update of the Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force modernization program and as I was expecting, there are several Filipinos who can't appreciate the current development and acquisition of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Some of them said that even some of those equipments are brand new still those aren't locally made.
I can't remain silent to those ridiculous crab mentality. So today I will present to you some of the locally made ships for the Philippine Navy.
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin on Saturday said that local shipyards will be given contracts to build additional ships for the country's naval force under the Philippine Navy's modernization program.
In fact, Manila-based Propmech Corporation recently presented two (2) brand new Multi-Purpose Attack Crafts(MPACs), military gun boats, to the Philippine Navy headquarters in Manila.
It took the names, BA 486 and BA 487 (see photo below) which are classified as landing assault craft and are "capable of providing a platform for fast interdiction of hostile targets, and rapid deployment and insertion of troops anywhere in the Philippines," the Navy Public Affairs Office said.
