Philippines received six US ScanEagle UAVs

The United States supplied the Philippine Air Force with six ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles as part of military assistance, estimated at 13,76 million dollars, according to local information portal Rappler.

As stated by the official representative of the military department Aristides Galang, Drones "capable of participating in multiple missions, such as counter-terrorism operations, homeland security and maritime patrols." In addition, aircraft can be used in humanitarian missions and during the assessment of the consequences of disasters, the portal writes.

All in all, the Armed Forces of the Philippines will receive a package in the number of 15 drone.

ScanEagle is an aircraft made according to the "tailless" scheme. The UAV is equipped with a swept wing with a 3,1 span of a meter with flaps folded up. Almost the entire rear edge of the wing is equipped with mechanization. A relatively small fuselage (about 1,4 meter length) contains a piston engine with an 1,5 horsepower, driving a pushing propeller. The take-off weight of the ScanEagle UAV does not exceed 20 kg.

A reconnaissance drone has flight data that is optimized to perform long-term patrol missions for specified areas. It can fly at speeds up to 130 km / h and climb to heights up to 4900 meters.

Comments

[siberalt]

They did not write about the most important thing. Now Filipinos will be able to count all of their islands.

[Herculesic]

Then the Chinese will say that there are three extra islands that Chinese guest workers secretly poured a million years ago at night! And now the islands must either be torn down or returned to China!

[Herculesic]

And what, the Filipinos didn’t buy such on the Internet - it would have turned out cheaper than American junk!

[rotmistr60]

$13,76 million

This is what saying means - money does not smell. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was an enemy of the United States yesterday, publicly unflattering about Obama, trolling Americans, threatening to feed UN observers to the crocodiles. And it smelled, albeit with small money by the standards of the United States, and the Americans immediately forgot about it.

[Hottabych]

Quote: rotmistr60

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was an enemy of the United States yesterday,

Some kind of lure was for Russia. But no one was indulged.

[Sverdlov]

Cool dragster. And with the lifting guide, there is no shortage of bother. Gazanul and rearing ...

[BOPOH50]

When the authors learn to understand between-received and bought. Phillipins-bought, Americans-sold. Do not learn from the American media, this is a lie, and the site is a direct path to the yellow press.

[APASUS]

I rummaged through half of https://www.rappler.com/ I didn’t find such information, for which there are no drugs, politics, Chinese phones, but there’s not even a mention about this deal.