Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced on 1 September that it has secured a contract worth about USD80 million to supply a “comprehensive naval warfare systems suite” for Shaldag Mk V fast patrol boats being built by Israel Shipyards for a Southeast Asian country.
The Tel Aviv-based firm said in a statement that the contract, which is to be fulfilled over the course of three years, includes the supply of a combat management system (CMS), Typhoon and Mini-Typhoon remotely controlled weapon systems (RWCS), Naval Spike Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) missile systems, the Sea-Com shipborne communication system, the BNET tactical data link, and other components with full maintenance and support services.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has secured a contract to supply a naval warfare systems suite for Shaldag Mk V fast patrol boats being built by Israel Shipyards for a Southeast Asian country. Among other things, the contract includes the supply of Typhoon and Mini-Typhoon RWCSs (the latter of which is shown here) as well as the Naval Spike NLOS missile system. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)
No further details were provided about the contract, but Janes understands that the warfare systems suite is likely to equip the eight Shaldag Mk Vs ordered earlier this year by the Philippine Navy (PN), which on 14 May revealed it was expecting to receive the first three of these boats from Israel Shipyards in the first quarter of 2022.
The boats, which are meant to meet a PN requirement for missile-capable fast attack interdiction craft (FAIC-M), will be initially deployed in the ‘Mindanao area of responsibility' where there are “continuous operations against LTGs [local terrorist groups] and CTGs [communist terrorist groups]”, the state-owned Philippine News Agency (PNA) reported on 14 May, citing then-Chief Vice Admiral Giovanni Carlo Bacordo.
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