{"id":278044,"date":"2020-12-08T22:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=278044"},"modified":"2020-12-08T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:13:58","slug":"paf-to-accept-6-brand-new-combat-choppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/08\/paf-to-accept-6-brand-new-combat-choppers\/","title":{"rendered":"PAF to accept 6 brand new combat choppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_278045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278045\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0-02-08-c6b8c5c84b2a94c2087b1c2864916e1ea5ebf369baaaf1746bb1643d65a4625d80c9d712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278045\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0-02-08-c6b8c5c84b2a94c2087b1c2864916e1ea5ebf369baaaf1746bb1643d65a4625d80c9d712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0-02-08-c6b8c5c84b2a94c2087b1c2864916e1ea5ebf369baaaf1746bb1643d65a4625d80c9d712.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0-02-08-c6b8c5c84b2a94c2087b1c2864916e1ea5ebf369baaaf1746bb1643d65a4625d80c9d712-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-278045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Polish-made Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk combat utility helicopter (Photo courtesy of Department of National Defense via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Air Force (PAF) will formally accept into service on Thursday six Polish-made Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk combat utility helicopters delivered last month.<\/p>\n<p>The acceptance, turnover, and blessing ceremonies will be held at 9 a.m. at the Haribon Hangar, Clark Air Base, Angeles City, Pampanga, PAF spokesperson Lt. Col. Aristides Galang said in an advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana will be the guest-of-honor, Galang said.<\/p>\n<p>The first five units of S-70i were delivered via the Antonov An-124 heavy aircraft to Clark Air Base last November 9 while the sixth arrived aboard a ship on November 27.<\/p>\n<p>The six helicopters are part of 16 units acquired from Polish company Polskie Zaklady Lotnicze Sp.z.o.o and manufactured under license from Sikorsky USA for a contract price of USD241 million.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopters were procured through a government-to-government transaction with Poland. The negotiations were completed in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of the Polish-made S-70i Black Hawk combat helicopters is part of Horizon 2 of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Program.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, DND spokesperson Arsenio Andolong said the remaining 10 units of the Polish-made S-70i Black Hawks would be delivered in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The remaining 10 units are expected to be delivered within the first quarter of 2021,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Andolong added that the S-70i would boost the AFP&#8217;s capability to conduct various operations, including combat missions, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response, and help in the government efforts against the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Hawk, designated as a medium transport helicopter, is capable of flying at speeds of 224mph\/361kph and has a range of 290 miles\/460 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Air Force (PAF) will formally accept into service on Thursday six Polish-made Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk combat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":278045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278044","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278047,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278044\/revisions\/278047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}