 The ships, designated as "Mk 3" versions, arrived without their armaments and were commissioned into service on May 22, 2017 as part of the Philippine Navy's "Third Boat Attack Division" of the Philippine Fleet's "Littoral Combat Force".The armaments for the Mk 3 were initially set to be delivered by December 2017, but were only actually delivered in May 2018.In September 2017, the Department of National Defense (DND)" released a tender to procure an additional three MPAC vessels based on the Mk 3 platform which will be fourth batch.