Modern weapons systems worth $1.8 million (Php 74.2 million) will be installed on the BRP Ramon Alcaraz, the latest refurbished navy ship the Philippines recently acquired from the United States. The Alcaraz, the second Hamilton-class cutter the country has acquired from the US, will be fitted with two Mk38 Mod 2 autocannon systems as part of a US$24-million (P988 million) contract the Pentagon awarded to BAE Systems Land and Armaments Inc., the Philippine Embassy said in a statement Saturday, October 27. The contract for the Kentucky-based BAE Systems involves the purchase of 21 units of the remotely controlled naval gun systems and spare parts for both the US and Philippine navies," the embassy said, quoting Capt. Elson Aguilar, Naval Attache at the Office of the Defense and Armed Forces Attache at the Philippine Embassy. The Alcaraz was first commissioned in 1968 as the USCGC Dallas. It was decommissioned and turned over to the Philippines last May, and is currently being refurbished and refitted at a cost of $15.15 million (P618 million)....
The BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF16) is moored at the United States
Coast Guard station in Charleston , South Carolina , in this photo provided by the Office of
the Naval Attache, Philippine Embassy in Washington
DC Washington ,
DC
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