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The Philippine Air Force is acquiring four Elbit Systems
Hermes 900 Kochav (Star) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
under the Revised Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)
Modernization Program Second Horizon, this was
con rmed by defense observer and analyst MaxDefense
Philippines in an article dated August 8.

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Hermes 900 is a next-generation multi-role medium LOOK: US, UK aircraft carriers,

altitude long endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial system warships sail together
(UAS). It is capable of performing missions for area
Faeldon not part of Magdalo
dominance and persistent intelligence, surveillance, target
Trillanes
acquisition and reconnaissance also known as ISTAR, Elbit
said. Espenido to narco-o cials:
Resign na, para humaba buhay
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Hermes 900 has a max speed of 220 km/h, cruise speed:

Chief Insp. Espenido grateful to
112 km/h, 36 hours endurance, and service ceiling of 9,100 President Duterte
m (30,000 ft).
Duterte orders training of 7,000
MaxDefense said the project named as PAF Unmanned elite soldiers, cops

Aerial Vehicle acquisition has an approved budget for

Cebu BRT project put on hold
contract (ABC) worth PHP8.47 billion.
PH frigates main engines to be
Four UAVs are to be acquired under Horizon 2 phase, and supplied by Korean builder
it appears that based on the quantity and ABC, each
2 PH-made Multi-mission
complete set of Hermes 900 including the undetermined
O shore Vessels launched
sensors package, integrated logistics support (ILS), today
training, support equipment and other ancillaries will cost
around Php 2.12 billion (US$41.93 million) each,
MaxDefense said. UPDATE.PH ON FACEBOOK

It added that the acquisition will be through government-

to-government contract with Israel, which means no
bidding will be conducted.

Elbit conducted a demonstration of Hermes 900 in July.

Based on latest information, the approval from the

Secretary of National Defense was only made on the 3rd
week of July 2017, and was submitted for approval by
President Duterte on the same week, MaxDefense added.

On July 24, during the press conference after delivering his

SONA speech, President Duterte said he will be acquiring
drones.

I will buy drones, yung high altitude. Na kung mag patrol

ang Army or the police, they will have to spend time
almost half the day studying the what is below, by
drones, he said.

Bibili ako ng marami, yung hindi na nila mabaril. Yung sa

mga Marawi, ang ginamit amateur lang man yun. Yun ang
gawin ko. I will prepare my Armed Forces on war footing.
Kasi may giyera eh [against terrorists], he added.

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