Marcos OKs Military’s P2-trillion Wish List for Weapons, Equipment

30 Januari 2024

Re-Horizon 3 worth Php2 trillion (actually closer to Php1.894 trillion or US$34.4 billion) (photo: PDA)

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved the military’s revised wish list for new weaponry and equipment to shore up the country’s defenses against threats, in the face of a rapidly evolving regional security landscape.

The updated acquisition plan called “Re-Horizon 3” will focus on “an array of capabilities which will range from our domain awareness, our connectivity, our intelligence capabilities or C4iSTAR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, targeting acquisition and reconnaissance) … to our area denial and deterrence capabilities on both the maritime and the aerial domains,” Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said at an event hosted by the Manila Overseas Press Club last week.

Defense sources said the revised procurement plan would have a timeline of 10 years and cost around P2 trillion.

It replaces Horizon 3 — the supposed final stage of the three-phase modernization program that would have started last year and run until 2028 — consisting of equipment mostly geared for external defense.

The Re-Horizon 3 is anchored on a “comprehensive archipelagic defense concept,” through which the Philippines will be able “to project power into areas where we must, by constitutional fiat and duty, protect and preserve our resources,” Teodoro said.

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