{"id":155553,"date":"2018-03-07T07:42:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155553"},"modified":"2018-03-07T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:42:52","slug":"hanhwa-cms-compliant-to-pn-specs-navy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/07\/hanhwa-cms-compliant-to-pn-specs-navy-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanhwa CMS compliant to PN specs: Navy chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The chief of the Philippine Navy (PN) on Wednesday defended the choice of picking South Korean firm Hanhwa for the combat management system of the procured frigates over the widely-preferred Thales Tacticos.<\/p>\n<p>During the House hearing on the multibillion-peso frigate project, PN flag-officer-in-command Rear Admiral Robert Empedrad said Hanwha&#8217;s Naval Shield Integrated Combat Management System (ICMS) complies with the specifications set by the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Empedrad said both Hanhwa CMS and Thales Tacticos are equally capable to be put into the two newly-acquired frigates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no basis to say that Tacticos is far superior than the Naval Shield ICMS,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wala pong kayang gawin ang Tacticos na hindi kayang gawin ng Naval Shield ICMS (There&#8217;s nothing Tacticos can do that Naval Shield ICMS can&#8217;t). Both CMS satisfy the Philippine Navy&#8217;s requirement,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Emepdrad also insisted that the frigate acquisition project (FAP) is above board and &#8220;within the pulse&#8221; of Government Procurement Reform Act (Republic Act 9184).<\/p>\n<p>He, however, warned that further delays in the project&#8217;s implementation could cause &#8220;financial repercussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FAP has a contract of PHP18 billion including the weapon systems and munitions.<\/p>\n<p>The frigates, presently being built by HHI, will be armed with weapons capable of neutralizing surface, sub-surface and air threats aside from its electronic warfare ability.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA with reports from Priam Nepomuceno)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The chief of the Philippine Navy (PN) on Wednesday defended the choice of picking South Korean firm Hanhwa for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[47818,11004,47817,47816],"class_list":["post-155553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-hanwhas-naval-shield-integrated-combat-management-system","tag-philippine-navy","tag-rear-admiral-robert-empedrad","tag-thales-tacticos","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155553","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=155553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}