US missile to remain in PH

By Francisco Tuyay

Sep 26, 2024 12:30 am

AMERICAN and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a US mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrence despite China's expressions of alarm, two Philippine officials said on Wednesday.

The US Army transported the Typhon missile system, a land-based weapon that can fire the Standard Missile-6 and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, to the northern Philippines as part of combat exercises in April with Philippine troops and to test its deployability aboard an Air Force aircraft.

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro. EPA-EFE/FRANCIS R. MALASIG

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