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Japan to Deliver Remaining

Two FPS-3ME Radars in 2025

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is prepar- awareness, early warning detection, and
ing to complete the delivery of air surveil- precise target tracking capabilities. TPS-
lance radars ordered by the Philippines. P14ME is a mobile-type long-range air
Speaking to Daily News at the ongoing surveillance radar offering precise de-
DSEI, a Mitsubishi Electric Corporation tection and tracking of multiple aerial
official said the company will complete targets. Based on the highly-successful
deliveries of the remaining two fixed FPS- J/TPS-P14 operated by the Japan Ground
3ME air surveillance radar systems to the Self-Defense Force, the system is proven
Philippine Air Force (PAF) by next year. to be reliable in a wide range of operating
Japan and the Philippines had announced environments and conditions.
a Government-toGovernment deal in
August 2020, for three fixed long-range According to information provided by the
FPS-3ME air surveillance radars with Philippine Air Force at the ongoing ADAS,
building facilities and one TPS-P14ME the FPS-3ME can detect ballistic missiles
medium-range mobile air surveillance as far away as 540 nautical miles, mari-
radar in a deal worth US$ 103 million. time patrol aircraft at 350 nautical miles
and fighter class aircraft as far as 200
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has al- nautical miles away. Entirely developed
ready supplied two air surveillance radar and manufactured in-house by Mitsubishi
systems to the PAF, one FPS-3ME and the Electric, the FPS-3ME is a long-range
other, TPS-P14ME. The sole TPS-P14ME 3D AESA (Active Electronically Scanned
mobile radar inducted significantly en- Array) air surveillance radar system ca- system is a new and improved version
hanced the PAF’s operational capabil- pable of simultaneous detection and of the J/FPS-3, which has been in use by
ities by providing real-time situational tracking of multiple aerial targets. The the Japan Air Self-Defense Force for over
30 years. The Highly reliable L-band air
surveillance radar system offers superi-
or range and ballistic missile detection
capability.
The four radars are being acquired by
the Philippines under the Horizon 2
Air Surveillance Radar System (ASRS)
Acquisition Project.. The planned air
surveillance radar sites will cover large
areas of the Philippine Rise, Southern
Areas of the country, and the Southern
portion of the West Philippine Sea and
allow the Philippine Air Force to provide
optimal airspace monitoring, aircraft con-
trol, perform its air defence mission and
enhance the security in Areas of Interest
identified by the DND.

Phillipine Navy Shows-Off Strike Capabilities

The Philippine Navy is show-
casing its growing stand-off
capability at the ongoing show.
Occupying pride of place is the
LIG Nex 1 C-Star “sea-skim-
ming surface-to-surface an-
ti-ship cruise missile. Also on
display is a Blue Shark light-
weight torpedo from LIGNex1,
along with Rafael Spike NLOS
missiles. Spike NLOS missiles
are fitted on some Philippine
Navy OPVs.

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