Philippines eyes US cutter amid wider buying plan

摘要

1. The PN is expected to take delivery of USCGC Hamilton in the first half of 2011 2. Propmech has been selected as prime contractor for three Multipurpose Attack Craft and an LCU The Philippine Navy (PN) has entered talks with the United States with a view to acquiring the first of the US Coast Guard's (USCG's) soon-to-be decommissioned Hamilton-class high-endurance cutters. The USCG confirmed to Jane's on 11 February that it has offered USCGC Hamilton and that a letter of request had been received from the PN. A formal transfer announcement is expected within two months via the US Foreign Military Sales route; if it proceeds the 378 ft- (115 m-) long vessel will become, by a considerable margin, the largest combatant in PN service.