Tailandia ofrece asociación para producir OPV para Filipinas
Thai Partnership Looks to Meet Philippine OPV Requirement Thailand’s Bangkok Dock and Defence Technology Institute (DTI) have teamed up to offer the Philippines a 90 m offshore patrol vessel (OPV), with a design similar to the Royal Thai Navy’s HTMS Krabi (photo : BAE Systems) Naval shipbuilder Bangkok Dock and the Thai Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) Defence Technology Institute (DTI) have signed an agreement to collaborate on meeting a requirement in the Philippines to procure offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), Jane’s has learned. Under the memorandum of agreement (MOA), which reflects growing efforts to expand defence industrial collaboration across Southeast Asia, the Thai partners will look to position for the Philippine Navy (PN) a modified version of the 90 m OPV that Bangkok Dock is building for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN). This vessel is based on BAE Systems’ 90 m OPV, the design for which the RTN acquired from the UK-headquartered defence group in 2009. According to a ...
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