The SPYDER-MR Ground-based Air Defense System (GBADS) will be the primary weapon of the PAF's 960th Air and Missile Defense Group.

"The newly acquired GBADS or specifically called SPYDER Philippines Air Defense System (SPADS) is a mobile air and missile defense system designed to protect critical installations, land-based fixed assets, mobile platforms, and friendly forces from aerial threats, such as combat aircraft, attack helicopters, unmanned air vehicles, incoming missiles, guided munition, and rockets. In certain cases, it may also be used to neutralize surveillance threats," PAF spokesperson Col. Ma. Consuelo Castillo said.

Castillo also said the GBAD batteries that are in service are the first modern surface-to-air missile defense system of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Having the SPYDER-MR GBADS in the PAF inventory gives the service a "layered defense" against intruding and hostile aircraft.

Also known as SPADS, it is classified as a "medium-range air defense missile system" and is capable of low-level, quick-reaction interception.

The GBADS is also the PAF's "secondary air defense cover after manned fighter aircraft" with the role currently being undertaken by the Air Force's FA-50PH LCA fleet.

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