{"id":113469,"date":"2017-08-23T01:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113469"},"modified":"2017-08-23T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:07:59","slug":"ph-navy-gets-new-radar-system-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/23\/ph-navy-gets-new-radar-system-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PH Navy gets new radar system from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104606\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104606\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine Navy (PN) will be greeting its 119th founding anniversary Wednesday with a brand-new strategic sealift vessel and three multi-purpose assault craft with missile provisions. (Photo: PHILIPPINE NAVY\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2-768x674.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Navy (PN) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\/photos\/a.424449817955.232024.190479452955\/10152539189862956\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\">PHILIPPINE NAVY\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Navy&#8217;s (PN) maritime domain awareness capability got a much-needed boost as it formally accepted a US-donated tethered aerostat radar system (TARS) Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Lued Lincuna, Navy spokesperson, said the 28-meter TARS was handed over by US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission to the Philippines, Michael Klescheski, to PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph S. Mercado.<\/p>\n<p>Turnover ceremonies took place at the Naval Education Training Command (NETC), Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui, San Antonio, Zambales.<\/p>\n<p>TARS is a large fabric envelope filled with helium, and can rise up to an altitude of 5,000 feet while tethered by a single cable.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the 28-meter class TARS is a self-sustained, rapidly deployable, unmanned lighter-than-air platform to be utilized by the PN to bolster its maritime domain awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The NETC in Zambales was chosen to be the staging point since, as the largest real-estate property of the PN with flat terrain, it fits the minimum space of 300 ft x 300 ft open area requirement for the launching of the aerostat.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as the premiere training institution of the PN, personnel here can be trained using this system as one of the new competencies.<\/p>\n<p>Lincuna said TARS will enhanced the PN&#8217;s capability to detect intrusion in the country&#8217;s territorial waters via its sensors and help in the conduct of humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes a weather station that provides telemetry data to the ground station for the monitoring of ambient temperature, pressure, wind speed and other pertinent parameters in the operation of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Lincuna said the donation is part of the US Maritime Security Initiative (MSI) Program (2016-2020), a capacity-building assistance for Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines that aims to improve the ability of these countries to address a range of maritime challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Navy&#8217;s (PN) maritime domain awareness capability got a much-needed boost as it formally accepted a US-donated tethered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[11004],"class_list":["post-113469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-philippine-navy","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}