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Philippines to bolster airborne COIN capabilities

with Broncos, potentially Baslers
Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

24 July 2018

The Philippine Air Force is set to receive four additional OV-10 Bronco aircraft from the United States to help bolster its COIN
capabilities. Source: US DoD

The Philippines is to bolster its airborne counterinsurgency (COIN) capabilities with Related IHS Products
the receipt of four surplus Rockwell OV-10 Bronco ground attack aircraft from the IHS Jane's Defence:
United States, and potentially two BT-67 gunships that are being offered by Basler Platforms
Turbo Conversions.
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A US Air Force (USAF) sources sought notification for the transfer of two OV-10A
and two OV-10G+ aircraft to an unspecified Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customer IHS Jane's Defence:
was first seen by Jane’s on 23 July, while Basler Turbo Conversions told Jane’s on Land
24 July that it was offering the BT-67 gunships as part of a wider package that IHS Jane's Defence:
includes a pair of BT-67 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) aircraft also. Sea

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In terms of the OV-10s, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) is currently the only military
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operator of the type with a single OV-10A and four OV-10C aircraft in its inventory.
The USAF did not respond to a Jane’s request for information on the transfer of the IHS Jane's All the
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four surplus aircraft, but regional sources identified the PAF as the customer to
Defense News’ Mike Yeo. The PAF is due to replace its existing OV-10s with the IHS Jane's All the
Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano from 2019, but with the transfer of the additional World's Aircraft: In
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aircraft set to take place at about the same time it is likely that the service will
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Conversions previously offered the platform to the Philippines in late 2016, but the

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offer was not taken up at that time.

Should both of these procurements go through, the additional OV-10s and the
BT-67s would join the six new Super Tucanos that will arrive from late 2019, as well
as two Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX aircraft modified to carry out intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and potentially ground attack missions, and
12 Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light attack aircraft that the Philippines
has recently received.

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