Weapons Systems for the newest Multi-Purpose Attack Craft of the Philippine Navy has arrived!

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Installation of Spike ER Missiles to the latest MPAC Mk III Vessels moved to Q1 of 2021

Side view of a Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) Mk 3 (BA-488) of the Philippine Navy (PN). Photo taken at the Naval Station Jose Andrada in Manila. Photo all rights reserved © 2019 rhk111. High Definition, no Watermark version available for Personal and Editorial purposes. Contact the Page Administrator for details.

The installation of Spike ER Missiles to the latest batch of Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) Mk III Vessels has been moved to the First Quarter of 2020.

The original schedule for equipping these Vessels with the Spike ER was initially the First Quarter of this Year or 2020, but it was later moved to the Last Quarter of 2020.

Now it has been moved again, could be because of the effect of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Pandemic, hopefully this will be the final schedule so we can have more missile-equipped Vessels in our Navy.

SOURCES:
* PH Navy to have 3 more Missile-armed MPACs by Q1 2021
* LIVESTREAM: Pres. Duterte leads 121st PHL Navy anniversary | Replay
* 3 more PN Assault Craft fitted with Spike-ER Missiles this Year

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No Mk 4 version for the PN’s MPAC Yet

I was browsing thru the Philippine Navy’s (PN) “Rough Deck Log” Gazettes when I noticed that in their issue last September 2019, they called the latest batch of Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) commissioned that month as “Mk III” instead of “Mk IV” that I thought it was going to be.

Hence I will be relabeling the pictures of these MPACs from Mk IV to Mk III on my page. It seems they decided there wasn’t enough changes in the boats to justify calling it a Mk 4 version.

By the way, the January 2020 edition of the Rough Deck Log is now available here.

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MPAC Arming Schedule and Plan Changes

Some changes related to the arming of the Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) of the Philippine Navy (PN) are as follows:

First off is that the schedule for arming the latest batch of MPACs with Spike ER missiles has been pushed out to the last quarter of 2020. Previously the schedule was to be the first quarter of this year (2020).

Second is that the previous batches of the MPAC, the Mk 1 and Mk 2 will now only be up-armed with Mini-Typhoon Remote Weapons Station (RWS). The Department of National Defense (DND) previously studied the possibility of arming the older batches with Spike ER missiles also.

SOURCES:
* 3 more PN Assault Craft fitted with Spike-ER Missiles this Year
* LIVESTREAM: Pres. Duterte leads 121st PHL Navy Anniversary | Replay
* DND studying possibility of arming Navy Craft with Spike-ER Missiles

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PN hopes to get 16 more AAVs and 12 more MPACs

Just some important highlights I’ve summarized from the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s (PDI) article about the Philippine Navy’s (PN) plans:

* 16 more Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV) are planned for acquisition which if realized will bring the total number of AAVs to 24.

* Six AAVs are planned for deployment to each Landing Dock (LD) of which we already have two (the Tarlac class vessels) plus another two LDs are up for rebidding.

* The manufacturer of the Korea Assault Amphibious Vehicle KAAV-7A1 that we bought, Hanhwa Defense, donated Php 20 million worth of Mission Essential Equipment for the Vehicles.

* An additional 12 Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) are planned for acquisition in the current horizon (Horizon 2).

* The MPAC Mk 4 will be assigned to the 4th Boat Attack Division of the Philippine Fleet

SOURCE: Philippine Navy hopes to get 16 more AAVs, 12 Fast Attack Craft

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MPAC Mk III and IV at the PN HQ

One of the Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) Mk III of the Philippine Navy (PN) with Hull Number 488 was at the PN Headquarters along Roxas Blvd. today (Mon., Sep. 23, 2019) and I was able to see and take pictures and videos of it.

Those vessels are very historic, they are the very first missile armed vessels to go into service with our Navy. Not sure how long that boat will stay there, though.

I also saw parts of the MPAC Mk IV, and they don't have their Remote Weapons Stations (RWS) and Spike ER Missile Launchers yet, those are scheduled for installment on the First Quarter of 2020.

They only have two 7.62 mm caliber Machine Guns on either side of the rear part of the Bridge as of now.

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