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Philippines receives final Israeli air surveillance radars

18th March 2019 - 11:33 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Hong Kong

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In January the Philippines received the final two of three Elta ELM-2288-ER AD-STAR long-range air surveillance radars from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

These radars should be integrated into the Philippine Air Defense Control Center imminently.

Under the government-to-government contract signed in December 2014, the second and third radars were supposed to have been delivered by May and November 2018 respectively, but the cause of the delivery delay by IAI is not certain.

At the time of the contract, IAI also offered an ELM-2106NG tactical air defence radar to the Philippines free of charge. This radar as well as the first

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Gordon Arthur was the Asia Pacific editor for Shephard Media. Born in Scotland and educated …

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