DND Wants More Modern Radars
DND Wants More Modern Radars 11 Maret 2017 More radars needed in AFP modernization program (image : PAF) Lorenzana wants more modern radars to beef up PHL maritime domain situational awareness MANILA (PNA) --- Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is keen to get more modern radar systems to improve the country"s maritime domain situational awareness capability. Such capability is needed in the Sulu and Celebes Sea, which is being threatened by piracy and kidnapping attacks from Abu Sayyaf and other lawless elements, and the eastern seaboard of the Philippines where incidents of poaching and intrusions are rife. Lorenzana said he planned to include the acquisition of modern radars in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Program"s Second Horizon. Maritime domain situational awareness refers to the capability to detect, monitor and if necessary, drive away intruding water craft from one"s territorial waters. The AFP Modernization...