{"id":132590,"date":"2017-11-20T03:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=132590"},"modified":"2017-11-20T03:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T08:29:28","slug":"navy-to-have-missile-system-by-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/20\/navy-to-have-missile-system-by-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy to have missile system by Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127542\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ronald-Joseph-Mercado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127542\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ronald-Joseph-Mercado.jpg\" alt=\"The three MPACs, with hull number BA-488, BA-489, and BA-490, were activated last May 22. (Photo: PHILIPPINE NAVY\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ronald-Joseph-Mercado.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ronald-Joseph-Mercado-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ronald-Joseph-Mercado-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three MPACs, with hull number BA-488, BA-489, and BA-490, were activated last May 22. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\/photos\/rpp.190479452955\/10155193271467956\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\/\">PHILIPPINE NAVY\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0If everything goes as planned, the Philippine Navy (PN) will be mounting its first-ever missile system on three brand-new multi-purpose attack craft (MPAC) this Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed Monday by PN flag-officer-in-command, Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph Mercado, when asked on the delivery and mounting of the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd&#8217;s Spike ER (extended range) missile systems on its three MPACs.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons are on anti-ship mode or can engage surface vessel targets. It is capable of penetrating 1,000 mm (39 inches) of rolled homogeneous armor and has a maximum range of five miles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pre-delivery inspection is already scheduled. Then an Air Force plane (from the Philippines) will go Israel to transport the missiles to the Philippines, all expenses paid by the proponent,&#8221; Mercado said. Tentative fitting out date is within December, the PN chief added.<\/p>\n<p>The three MPACs, with hull number BA-488, BA-489, and BA-490, were activated last May 22.<\/p>\n<p>These MPACs are the Mark III models and considerably more advanced that the six Mark I and IIs currently in the Navy inventory that was constructed by Subic Bay-based Propmech Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Contract for the three ships are worth PHP270 million which was sourced from the Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Act Trust Fund of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The contract includes mission essential equipment which includes day\/night electronic navigation systems, communication suites, safety-of-life-at-sea, propulsion system and seamanship and ship-handling gears.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0If everything goes as planned, the Philippine Navy (PN) will be mounting its first-ever missile system on three brand-new multi-purpose &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":127542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[34093,34092,20239],"class_list":["post-132590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-missile-system","tag-navy-to-have-missile-system-by-christmas","tag-philippine-navy-pn","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132590","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=132590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}