Shaldag Mk V, Anti-Air and Anti-Ship Missiles for the Philippine Navy

Image taken from the PN 2020 Calendar

The Philippine Navy (PN) showed a number of items they intend to acquire for their modernization in their 2020 Calendar, and among these are the Submarine, Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) and the Fast Attack and Interdiction Craft (FAIC) which they had extensively discussed before in public.

The PN had announced in previous news reports that they intend to get the Shaldag vessels from Israel for their FAIC, the picture from the Calendar says it will be the latest version, the Shaldag Mk V.

The PN though showed in the Calendar two items they had not discussed much about before, the Shore-based Anti-Ship Missile (AShM) System and the Shore-based Anti-Air Missile System.

Featured in the image for the Shore-based AShM is the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) made by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace while for the Shore-based Anti-Air Missile System they showed the Sky Sabre made by the European company MBDA.

Since the PN has not talked much about these two Projects, we are not sure if these are what they really intend to buy, hopefully they will be discussing these more like they did with the Submarine, OPV and FAIC.

By the way, the picture used for the Submarine in the Calendar is for the Lada class Submarine, an improved version of the Kilo class Submarine made by Russia.

The PN did say before that they considered Submarines from Russia, but the last year or so had stated preference for the Scorpene class Submarines from France.

And the OPV picture is of course the one that Austal is proposing to build for the PN.

SOURCE: Philipine Navy 2020 Calendar

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