MANILA, Philippines — The Department of National Defense (DND) reported yesterday that the delivery of AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air m1ssiles would start within the year and would be fitted onto the Philippine Air Force (PAF)’s new supersonic jets FA50 Fighting Eagles. The air-to-air m1ssiles were procured from Diehl Raytheon of Germany for P1,016,734,088 as the PAF transitions from rockets and bombs to missile fighting capabilities.
“The (Sidewinder m1ssiles) would be delivered within the year,” DND spokesman Arsenio Andolong said.
Andolong, however, declined to say how many Sidewinders were purchased from Diehl Ratheon.
PAF is already flying one squadron of FA50 Fighting Eagles that would soon be armed with air-to-air AIM-9 Sidewinders in addition to the 20 mm automatic cannons.
The AIM-9 sidewinders, developed for the US Navy in the 1950s, is one of the world’s most reliable and effective air-to-air m1ssiles that became popular in the 1982 Falklands War, when British Harrier jets and French-made Mirage fighters of the rival Argentine Air Force saw action.
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