{"id":165430,"date":"2018-05-29T04:34:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165430"},"modified":"2018-05-29T04:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T08:34:23","slug":"army-now-equipped-with-new-communication-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/29\/army-now-equipped-with-new-communication-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Army now equipped with new communication platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165434\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Army-new-communication-equipment-May-29_5b0cead203f7b8_53147913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165434\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Army-new-communication-equipment-May-29_5b0cead203f7b8_53147913.jpg\" alt=\"The equipment being referred to is the &quot;Blue Force Tracking System&quot; that was developed by the Army Signal Regiment under its situational awareness capability program. (Photo courtesy: Philippine Army Public Affairs Office\/PNA photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Army-new-communication-equipment-May-29_5b0cead203f7b8_53147913.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Army-new-communication-equipment-May-29_5b0cead203f7b8_53147913-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The equipment being referred to is the &#8220;Blue Force Tracking System&#8221; that was developed by the Army Signal Regiment under its situational awareness capability program. (Photo courtesy: Philippine Army Public Affairs Office\/PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Army (PA) is now equipped with platforms that can provide situational capability and secure communication to its units in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment being referred to is the &#8220;Blue Force Tracking System&#8221; that was developed by the Army Signal Regiment under its situational awareness capability program.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is equipped with a global positioning system, allowing it to provide critical information to ground units, PA spokesperson Lt. Col. Louie Villanueva said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from its &#8220;Blue Force Tracking System&#8221;, the Army is also equipped with Mobile Command Centers (MCC) 1 and 2, tasked to provide communication support to all field units.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva said communication capability upgrades, such as MCC 1 and MCC 2, enable the commanders and planners to see the battlefield with real-time picture to come up with comprehensive and accurate plans and timely decisions, particularly during the conduct of focused military operations, and humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations.<\/p>\n<p>Both platforms are capable of communicating through voice and data since they are equipped with dipole and aerial antennas, telephone extender, and satellite dish antenna, with uninterruptible power supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Army (PA) is now equipped with platforms that can provide situational capability and secure communication to its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":165434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[51427,51426,22883],"class_list":["post-165430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-army-signal-regiment","tag-blue-force-tracking-system","tag-philippine-army-pa","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165430","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=165430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}