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BRP Dioscoro Papa (PC-381)
The BRP ''Dioscoro Papa'' (PC-381) is the eleventh ship of the ''Jose Andrada'' class coastal patrol boats of the Philippine Navy. It is part of the second batch of its class ordered through US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) in 1993, and was commissioned with the Philippine Navy on 1 June 1995.''GlobalSecurity.org'PG Jose Andrada Class''Manokski's ORBAT @ Hueybravo.' It was initially designated as Fast Patrol Craft, and was numbered "DF-381", but later on was re-designated as a Patrol Gunboat, and was finally re-numbered as "PG-381". Another round of reclassification was made in April 2016, which re-designated the patrol gunboat as the coastal patrol craft "PC-381". Technical Details The ship was built to US Coast Guard standards with aluminium hull and superstructure. She is powered by two Detroit Diesel 16V-92TA Diesel Engines with a combined power of around 2,800 hp driving two propellers for a maximum speed of . Maximum range is at , or alternatively at . The ship origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Navy
The Philippine Navy (PN) ( tgl, Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas, , Sea Army of the Philippines) ( es, Armada de Filipinas, , Ejército del Mar de las Filipinas) is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It has an estimated strength of 24,500 active service personnel, including the 8,300-strong Philippine Marine Corps. It operates 82 combat vessels, 14 auxiliary vessels, 25 manned aircraft and 8 unmanned aerial vehicles. It shares the responsibility of patrolling the maritime borders with the Philippine Coast Guard, a formerly attached unit which became a separate maritime law enforcement agency in 1998. History Pre-colonial period Before the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines the ancient native people were already engaging in naval warfare, raiding, trade, piracy, travel and communication using various vessels including balangay. A flotilla of balangay was discovered in the late 1970s in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte. Native Philippine wars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the principal naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM, RAN. CN is also jointly responsible to the Minister of Defence (MINDEF) and the Chief of Defence Force (CDF). The Department of Defence as part of the Australian Public Service administers the ADF. Formed in 1901, as the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), through the amalgamation of the colonial navies of Australia following the federation of Australia. Although it was originally intended for local defence, it became increasingly responsible for regional defence as the British Empire started to diminish its influence in the South Pacific. The Royal Australian Navy was initially a green-water navy, and where the Royal Navy provided a blue-water force to the Australian Squadron, which the Australian and New Zealand governments helped to fund, and that was assigned to the Australia Station. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Glenelg (ACPB 96)
HMAS ''Glenelg'' (ACPB 96), named for the city of Glenelg, South Australia was an Armidale-class patrol boat, ''Armidale''-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Design and construction The ''Armidale''-class patrol boats are long, with a Beam (nautical), beam of , a draught of , and a standard Displacement (ship), displacement of 270 tons.Saunders (ed.), ''IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2012–2013'', p. 33 The semi-displacement vee hull is fabricated from aluminium alloy, and each vessel is built to a combination of Det Norske Veritas standards for high-speed light craft and RAN requirements.Kerr, ''Plain sailing'' The ''Armidale''s can travel at a maximum speed of , and are driven by two propeller shafts, each connected to an MTU Friedrichshafen, MTU 16V M70 diesel. The ships have a range of at , allowing them to patrol the waters around the distant States and territories of Australia, territories of Australia, and are designed for standard patrols of 21 day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Albany (ACPB 86)
HMAS ''Albany'' (ACPB 86), named for the city of Albany, Western Australia, is an ''Armidale''-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Design and construction The ''Armidale'' class patrol boats are long, with a beam of , a draught of , and a standard displacement of 270 tons.Saunders (ed.), ''IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2012–2013'', p. 33 The semi-displacement vee hull is fabricated from aluminium alloy, and each vessel is built to a combination of Det Norske Veritas standards for high-speed light craft and RAN requirements.Kerr, ''Plain sailing'' The ''Armidale''s can travel at a maximum speed of , and are driven by two propeller shafts, each connected to an MTU 16V M70 diesel. The ships have a range of at , allowing them to patrol the waters around the distant territories of Australia, and are designed for standard patrols of 21 days, with a maximum endurance of 42 days. The main armament of the ''Armidale'' class is a Rafael Typhoon stabilised gun mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BRP Filipino Flojo (PC-386)
BRP ''Filipino Flojo'' (PC-386) is the fifteenth ship of the coastal patrol craft of the Philippine Navy. It is part of the second batch of its class ordered through US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) in 1993, and was commissioned with the Philippine Navy on 22 May 1996.''Manokski's ORBAT @ Hueybravo.'Jose Andrada class page She is currently in active service with the Littoral Combat Force, Philippine Fleet. t was initially designated as Fast Patrol Craft, and was numbered "DF-386", but later on was re-designated as a Patrol Gunboat, and was finally re-numbered as "PG-386". Another round of reclassification was made in April 2016, which redesignated the patrol gunboat as the coastal patrol craft "PC-386". History In 1989, the Philippines placed an order of 4 fast patrol craft with Trinity-Equitable (formerly Halter-Marine Equitable) for USD9.4 million. The first of the four vessels, arrived on August 20, 1990, was named . The lead ship of the class was named after Jose Andrada, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BRP Cebu (PS-28)
BRP ''Cebu'' (PS-28) was a of the Philippine Navy. She was originally built as USS ''PCE-881'', a for the United States Navy during World War II and patrolled the Alaskan coast during that war. She was decommissioned from the U.S. Navy and transferred to the Philippine Navy in July 1948 and renamed RPS ''Cebu'' (E-28) after the Philippine province of the same name. The ship was decommissioned on 1 October 2019. Along with other World War II-era ships of the Philippine Navy, ''Cebu'' was considered one of the world's oldest fighting ships during her active service. History Commissioned in the US Navy as USS ''PCE-881'' in 1944, and patrolled the coast of Alaska during World War II. The ship was decommissioned after World War II. She was then transferred and commissioned into the Philippine Naval Patrol and was renamed RPS ''Cebu'' (E-28) in July 1948. She was carried on to the Philippine Navy in 1951, and in the 1960s she was renamed as RPS ''Cebu'' (PS-28) using a new ship n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BRP Anastacio Cacayorin (PC-387)
BRP ''Anastacio Cacayorin'' (PC-387) is the sixteenth ship of the coastal patrol craft of the Philippine Navy. She was commissioned in 1996 and is currently in active service with the Littoral Combat Force, Philippine Fleet. It was initially designated as Fast Patrol Craft, and was numbered "DF-387", but later on was re-designated as a Patrol Gunboat, and was finally re-numbered as "PG-387". Another round of reclassification was made in April 2016, which re-designated the patrol gunboat as the coastal patrol craft "PC-387". History In 1989, the Philippines placed an order of 4 fast patrol craft with Trinity-Equitable (formerly Halter-Marine Equitable) for USD 9.4 million. The first of the four vessels, arrived on August 20, 1990, was named . The lead ship of the class was named after Jose Andrada, who was one of the original officers of the Offshore Patrol of the Philippine Commonwealth government. In April 1990, the Philippines ordered an additional ship and 3 more ships in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BRP General Mariano Alvarez (PS-38)
BRP ''General Mariano Alvarez'' (PS-38) is the lead ship of its class of three coastal patrol ships currently in service with the Philippine Navy. She was the lead ship of the US Navy's prior to being transferred to the Philippine Navy. History Launched as the first of fourteen ships of the , the primary mission of was to serve as a platform for conducting maritime special operations, including interdiction, escort, noncombatant evacuation, reconnaissance, operational deception, intelligence collection, and tactical swimmer operations. Her small size, stealthy construction and high speed were tailored to performing long-range Special Operations Forces (SOF) insertion and extraction as well as other SOF support duties as needed. As good a design as it is, ''Cyclone'' had barely gone into service in the mid-1990s when the Special Operations Command rejected them as too big for commando missions, and the regular surface Navy dismissed them as too small for any of its mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M60 Machine Gun
The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links. There are several types of ammunition approved for use in the M60, including ball, tracer, and armor-piercing rounds.The M60 Federation of American Scientists. It was adopted in 1957 and issued to units beginning in 1959. It has served with every branch of the and still serves with the armed forces of other states. Its manufacture and continued upgrade for military and commercial purchase continues into the 21st century, although it has been replaced or supplemented in most ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jose Andrada Class Patrol Craft
The ''Jose Andrada'' class is a ship class of twenty-two coastal patrol boats currently in service with the Philippine Navy. History In 1989, the Philippines placed an order of 4 fast patrol craft with Trinity-Equitable (formerly Halter-Marine Equitable) for USD9.4 million. The first of the four vessels, arrived on August 20, 1990, was named . The lead ship of the class was named after Jose Andrada, who was one of the original officers of the Offshore Patrol of the Philippine Commonwealth government. In April 1990, the Philippines ordered an additional ship and 3 more ships in August 1990. In March 1993, eleven more vessels were ordered. A total of 22 ships were acquired by the Philippines by 1999. It was initially designated as Fast Patrol Craft, and was classified with a hull initial "DF", but later on was re-designated as a Patrol Gunboat, and was finally re-designated as "PG". Technical Details The class was built to US Coast Guard The United States Coast Guard ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M2 Browning
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. Its design is similar to Browning's earlier M1919 Browning machine gun, which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge. The M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm) cartridge. The design has had many designations; the official U.S. military designation for the current infantry type is Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .50, M2, HB, Flexible. It is effective against infantry, unarmored or lightly armored vehicles and boats, light fortifications, and low-flying aircraft. The gun has been used extensively as a vehicle weapon and for aircraft armament by the United States since the 1930s. It was heavily used during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Soviet–Afghan War, the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the War in Afghanistan. It is the primary heavy machine gun of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M242 Bushmaster
The M242 Bushmaster chain gun is a 25 mm (25×137mm) single-barrel chain-driven autocannon. It is used extensively by the U.S. military, such as in the Bradley fighting vehicle, as well as by other NATO members and some other nations in ground combat vehicles and various watercraft. Hughes Helicopters in Culver City, California was the original designer and manufacturer. McDonnell Douglas Helicopters acquired Hughes Helicopters in 1985, and merged into Boeing Corporation in 1997. In 2002, it was sold again to Alliant Techsystems, which merged with Orbital Sciences Corporation in 2015 to form Orbital Science ATK and was, in turn, bought out by Northrop Grumman in 2018. , Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems produces the gun. It is an externally powered, chain-driven, single-barrel weapon, that may be fired in semi-automatic, burst, or automatic modes. It is fed by a metallic link belt and has dual-feed capability. The term "chain gun" derives from the use of a roller cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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