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The Philippine Coast Guard is going to acquire the French P-400 class patrol craft La Tapaguese which is expected to arrive to the Philippines by April 2014, after the ship's refurbishment and refits. The Coast Guard is going to retain it's current equipments and is also expected to be installed with additional machine guns and fire cannons so that the ship will fit to Coast Guard duties. The ships' purchase is worth 6 million euros (about P345.5 million), including refurbishment works and refits. The ship doesnt have a name already, but we expect that the ship will be named after a province in the Philippines because it is the Coast Guard's custom to name their ships after certain provinces (example BRP Ilocos Sur).

Also, our PCG is going to acquire 10 brand-new Bizan class patrol vessels from Japan whose delivery is expected to arrive from 2015-2017. Four brand-new 24m vessels and an 82m multipurpose patrol vessel is also going to be acquired from France.

Looks good, though I'd remove double black lines near the rudder.

also im going to add the gregorio del pilar class, ill just modify the drawing of squizzy and add the current weapons installed in it [his drawing lacks some weapons installed bcoz i think he draw the ship bfor upgrades were carried on the ships] thanks!

Nice work!

This is the updated Gregorio del Pilar class:


4 12.7mm machine guns were installed on Gregorio del Pilar after drydock, and 6 on Ramon Alcaraz (i didnt see any picture suggesting where the last pair of machine guns were installed). 2 Mk38 Mod2 25mm autocannons are already in our country, we are only waiting on a US Coast Guard team to install the guns (first on PF-16), the position of the Mk38 in the drawing is exactly where the ship is going to have it. Also, the Navy already commissioned 3 AW-109s to operate aboard the ships....

Also, i will upload later the proposed upgrades on the ships...

The autocannon is the one at the stern right? What is the mount next to the stack?

Syzmo wrote:The autocannon is the one at the stern right? What is the mount next to the stack?

that is a pair of 12.7mm machine guns, placed on the helideck, i wonder why they placed such guns in wierd positions...beside the hangar is a mk38 mod2

Very nice!