Israel's state-owned rafael advanced
defence systems is supplying spyder, a
ground-based air defense system to the
philippines. The philippines selected the
israeli company to supply the
much-needed equipment to the philippine
air force, according to a report by
israel defense. Israel has supplied the
same ground-based air defense system to
singapore.
Once acquired the philippines
will make a significant leap in its
coastal defenses. Particularly of the
west philippine sea, it will be the first
time the country will have ground-based
air defense missiles. Raphael is the same
company that developed and manufactured
israel's famed iron dome which is a 90 percent success rate in intercepting enemy
projectiles.
Since its installation in
2011 the iron dome has downed 2,400
rockets fired from Gaza. The acquisition
project will cost the philippines P6
billion for three batteries of raphael's
spider. A ground-based mobile air defense
system that can be installed on
strategic locations facing the west
philippine sea. The air defense system is
expected to be delivered within 202. Military officers training for spider
and 10 officers from the philippine air
force were selected to train with Raphael. The first missile system officer
course started last march 1 at the basa
air base in Florida, Blanca Town Pampanga
province, according to a report by the
enquirer.
According to the report the
training aims to equip the officers with
operational knowledge to produce capable
missile system officers to lead in the
performance of the air and missile
defense system's mission capabilities. The training will cover comprehensive
courses on strategy, nature and use of
the three batteries, radars missiles, as
well as the command and control unit, spyder missiles, spyder stands for
surface-to-air python and derby. Python
and derby refer to a family of missiles
developed by israel's raphael advanced
defence systems.
It is a quick-reaction
surface-to-air missile system designed
to take down enemy aircraft such as
fighters unmanned aerial vehicles, drones
and missiles from the makers of iron
dome israel to supply the ph air defense
missiles. It is not the famous and highly
dependable iron dome but for now this
would do.
Finally the philippines will have its
own ground-based air defense system as
israel's state-owned raphael advanced
defense systems is supplying spider. The
philippines recently selected raphael
advanced defense systems to supply the
much needed equipment to the philippine
air force, according to a report by
according to a report published by
israel defense.
Once acquired the
philippines will make a significant leap
in its coastal defenses. particularly of
the West Philippine Sea (WPS). It will be
the first time the country will have
ground-based air defense missiles. Raphael is the same company that
developed and manufactured israel's iron
dome which was reported to have a 90
success rate in intercepting enemy
missiles.
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| The Iron Dome TM |
Per report since its
installation in 2011 the iron dome has
downed 2,400 rockets fired from gaza. For
the philippines it would cost us P6
billion for three batteries of raphael's
spider. A ground-based mobile air defense
system that can be installed on
strategic locations facing the west
philippine sea. The air defense system is
expected to be delivered within 2021.
Philiipines will only buy military equipment from
israel. President Rodrigo Duterte on baird that he has ordered
the military to purchase equipment only
from israel. My orders to my military is that in
terms of military equipment particularly
intelligence gathering. We only have one
country to buy from, that is my order specifically israel
detert said during his bilateral meeting
with israeli president Reuven Rivlin in
his official residence in Jerusalem.
Duterte also thanked Rivlin for
extending help during the Marawi siege
last year. You have extended us critical assistance
during the Marawi siege against the
extremists
and the equipment that you lent us
helped us a lot to win the war and
shortened the period of fighting, detert
said. It behooves israel and the philippines
to cooperate more than ever to defeat
one enemy which i think could never
disappear within the next 10 years, he
added.
Detert meanwhile assured that the
philippines would be a good country to
invest in, noting that there are a lot of
business, opportunities there that have
yet to be explored. you will not find yourself a stranger
there in the philippines. Detert told Rivlin we intend to explore
further in the field of investments and
trade and there are a lot of
opportunities. Israel can help us on this and of course
to set up investments business in my
country, he added.
He also expressed confidence that the
philippines and israeli governments
would not have any problems since the
two countries shared common ideologies
including love for peace. I do not see any reason that there would
be a problem in our relationship. We side on what is morally right and you
can be sure that the philippines will
remain loyal to the tenets of democracy
and the right of a nation to exist
peacefully detert sai.
Rivlin for his part vowed to strengthen
the long-standing diplomatic ties
between israel and the philippines. We know that we have a very very strong
relationship now with you and your
people. We are both trying to protect and to
defend our people against fundamentalism
against terrorism rivlin said.
He also thanked the philippine
government for its assistance to israel
during the holocaust by providing safe
haven to jewish refugees. I must say that all those people who
have found safe haven in your place are
very much appreciated by us, he added.
Rivlin emphasized the need to cooperate
with every country especially in terms
of security. We are doing that and we are cooperating
with every country that is trying to do
the same to protect their own people and
to carry the burden of security
and we do that with the idea and the
values that we are holding, the values of
democracy and the human rights rivlin
said.
