Ships of the Teresa Magbanua class also has that same structure but no cannon since Japanese law is reportedly prohibited to export such weapons.

Aside from underwater search and rescue missions, they will also come in handy for intercepting near-sea-surface submersibles carrying drugs or other smuggled items.

This include vessels having their freeboards and superstructures so low that the usual 2D marine radars, cameras (optical, infrared, night vision), and other surface-search-oriented sensors will have a hard time detecting them.

In general, such ROVs will serve as force-multipliers (supporting the navy) in expanding the Philippines' overall domain awareness of their underseas to whatever subsea target detectable.

[8] According to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the MRRV has a length of 96.6 meters (316 ft 11 in), a maximum speed of not less than 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph), and has a complement of 67 crew members.They have two 6,600 kW (8,900 hp) diesel engines.

In addition, they will be equipped with a maritime integrated communications system known as NAVICS, which will be provided by Rohde & Schwarz in collaboration with NTT.

[13] It calls for five additional multi-role response vessels with a five-year integrated logistics support under a PHP 29.3 billion contract, which is financed under a Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan.