Is it true FA-50 Philippines air craft will be upgrade with Russia Smart Weap0ns HD
Aside from China, the other country that this new Administration under President Rodrigo Duterte is “pivoting” to is Russia, and as part of that initiative, the Department of National Defense (DND) is considering the possibility of using Russian made Precision Guided Munitions (PGM) on our FA-50PH Fighting Eagles.1 A PGM or “Smart Weap0n” is a weap0n that is able to adjusts its flight path to hit its target. It can either be guided towards the target, or has its own independent guidance system.2 Note that this is at least the second time that the DND was reported to be pursuing such possibility,3 so they seem to be really serious about doing it. The big question now though is whether this is even possible at all? This is because the FA-50PH is entirely made by the United States (US) and its allies, and Russia has had a long history of rivalry with them that continues to this day. Hence their weap0ns might not be compatible at all with western aircraft. One way to study this possibility would be to look at actual, real-world examples of Soviet or Russian weap0ns being used on western aircraft, and it turns out that there is quite a number of such examples. the technically it air craft is integrate Russian PGMs into western made aircraft like the FA-50PH. But there is another, perhaps more critical consideration before this can be done, and that is the political aspect of such an integration.