The state-run Philippine News Agency quoted Philippine Navy chief Rear Adm. Robert Empedrad as saying that the two frigates from South Korea will be employed as anti-air platforms.
By Roakr (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“In the current inventory of the PN, we don’t have capability for aerial denial. Wala pa tayong (We do not have) anti-air missile capability na ship that can hit an incoming aerial object. But except for our frigates supposedly kung ma-deliver (once delivered), ito lang iyong (this will only be the) first time that we will have that capability for aerial denial,” Empedrad was telling the Senate during a hearing on the Frigate Acquisition Project.
The two ships are from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and based on the HDF-3000 frigate design.
Then, buy KVLS and KSAAM 🙂