Philippines Takes Delivery of First Air Defense Radar

KUALA LUMPUR—The Philippines is preparing to reintroduce ground-based air defense radar coverage, 26 years after it lost such surveillance capability with the withdrawal of U.S. forces from its territory. The country has received the first of three Elta Systems ELM-2288 air defense radars that it...
Marhalim Abas

Marhalim Abas, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, covers Southeast Asian defense. He has worked as a journalist specializing in Southeast Asia defense and security since 1994, initially with the New Straits Times newspaper.

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