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MITSUBISHI
ELECTRIC

CORPORATION
TO COMPLETE

PHILIPPINE
RADAR ORDER

THIS YEAR

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
NORTHROP GRUMMAN, will complete the delivery of air
surveillance radars ordered by the
Philippines, later this year. Speaking
IHI TO COLLABORATE ON to Daily News at the ongoing DSEI,
a Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
official said the deliveries of the air
SMALL MANOEUVRABLE surveillance radars to the Philippine
Air Force (PAF) would be completed
this Spring. Mitsubishi Electric
SATELLITES FOR JAPAN Corporation is supplying four air
surveillance radar systems to the
PAF under the latter’s Horizon 2 Air
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) affordable and effective SDA solution for Surveillance Radar System (ASRS)
inked between IHI Corporation and Northrop Japan.” Acquisition Project. Deliveries of
Grumman at the ongoing show will result the radars to the Philippines began
in the companies working towards devel- Japan’s National Security Strategy and in 2022. The planned ASRS sites will
oping small, highly manoeuvrable satellites National Defence Strategy of December cover large areas of the Philippine
and other solutions for missions such as 2022 had called for strengthened SDA to Rise, Southern Areas of the coun-
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) for Japan. ensure sustainable economic activity and try, and the Southern portion of the
IHI and Northrop Grumman will jointly national security. “Northrop Grumman’s West Philippine Sea and allow the
collaborate on opportunities to provide demonstrated experience in this field and Philippine Air Force to provide opti-
small, highly manoeuvrable satellites to the long-standing cooperation between our mal airspace monitoring, aircraft
companies makes them our best partner
enhance awareness in an increasingly con- to pursue solutions to these problems. We control, perform its air defence
mission and enhance the security
tested Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) will cooperate together to contribute to the in Areas of Interest identified by
environment. stable use of space,” said Fumiharu Namiki, the DND. Japan and the Philippines
Vice President, Aero Engine, Space & had announced a Government-
“This collaboration combines IHI’s long Defense Business Area, IHI Corporation and to-Government for the radars in
heritage in Japan’s space business with concurrently President of IHI Aerospace. a deal worth USD 103 million in
Northrop Grumman’s unparalleled expe- IHI has provided space situational aware- August 2020. The deal includes
rience in SDA,” said Troy Brashear, vice ness data services for the safe operation of supply of three fixed long-range air
president, national security systems, satellites. In recent years, IHI has invested surveillance radars, each with build-
Northrop Grumman Space Systems. “We attention to the movement of satellites ing facilities and one mobile air
will rapidly work together towards an in GEO. surveillance radar.

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