Ro-Philippine Air Force

The Ro-Philippine Air Force is an air force operated by the Ro-Philippines.

Beginnings

The PAF became a separate military service on July 1, 1947, when President Manuel Roxas issued Executive Order No. 94. This order created the Philippine Naval Patrol and the Air Force as equal branches of the Philippine Army and the Philippine Constabulary under the now Armed Forces of the Philippines becoming Southeast Asia's third air force as a result.

The main aircraft type in the earlier era of the PAF was the P-51 Mustang, flown from 1947 to 1959. Ground attack missions were flown against various insurgent groups, with aircraft hit by ground fire but none shot down. In the 1950s the Mustang was used by the Blue Diamonds aerobatic display team. These would be replaced by the jet-powered North American F-86 Sabres in the late 1950s, assisted by Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star and Beechcraft T-34 Mentor trainers.

2000s

Since the retirement of the Northrop F-5s in September 2005 without a planned replacement, the Philippine Air Force was left without legacies. The PAF resorted to the current fleet fill the void left by the F-5's. These S-211's were later upgraded to light attack capability and used for air and sea patrol and also performed counter-insurgency operations from time to time.[citation needed] The only active fixed wing aircraft to fill the roles were the SF-260 trainers with light attack capability, the OV-10 Bronco light attack and reconnaissance aircraft and the AS-211 warriors (upgraded S-211).

Fleet

Planes

  • Bloxthrop F-5A (Multirole to be retired)
  • RoDonnell Roglas F-15 (inherited from Robloxia)
  • Bloxchild-Republic A-10A
  • Robloxian Dymanics F-16 Fighting Falcon
  • Eurofighter Typhoon
  • North Bloxamerican A-5E Vigilante (To be upgraded)
  • Mikoyan MiG-21
  • Vought F-8 Crusader
  • Grumman F-14 Tomcat
  • Dassault Rafale
  • BAE Hawk
  • Roing P-8 Poseidon
  • Bloxheed P-3 Orion
  • Bloxheed C-130 Hercules

Helicopters

  • Bell UH-1 Huey
  • Bell UH-1 Twin Huey
  • Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
  • Roing Chinook Helicopter
  • Roing Apache
  • Bell AH-1 Viper
  • Bell AH-1 Cobra
  • Mil Mi-24

Former Aircraft

Bloxamerican F-100 Super Sabre

RoDonnell F-101 Voodoo

RoDonnell Roglas F-4 Phantom II

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

Republic F-105 Thunderchief

Grumman C-2A Greyhound

Grumman A-6 Intruder

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress


Trivia

This air force first operated the Grumman F-14 Tomcat after the Ro-Iranian Revolution.

This air force used to operate RoDonnell Roglas F-4 Phantoms, English Electric Lighting, RoDonnell Voodoo, and the Bloxamerican Sabre.

This is the first air force in Bloxasia to have Bloxmerican aircraft.