00:00The Philippines and the United States will conduct a joint military exercise in February.
00:06And the Typhoon Missile Launcher that was transferred to a secret location in Luzon will be used there.
00:13Chino Gaston was on the scene.
00:19The location in the Philippines is just a secret.
00:21But the Philippine Army confirmed that the medium-range Typhoon Missile Launcher of the United States
00:27will be used in the Salaknib Joint Philippine-U.S. Military Exercise in February.
00:31In fact, another Philippine Army platoon will teach how to use the payload delivery system of the missile launcher.
00:39Last year, there was already a platoon of the army that was used to transferring and deploying it.
00:46It was also not specified where the Salaknib Joint Military Exercise will be conducted.
00:51The Typhoon Missile Launcher of the United States in Luzon was transferred several times by China.
00:57If it will be placed in a good location, its missile can reach any part of the EEZ of the Philippines
01:04as well as the part of Southern China and Southern Russia near the sea.
01:09Since it will be the second platoon to learn how to use the Typhoon,
01:13the AFB was asked if the Philippines plans to buy a long-established weapon of China.
01:20It's more of the familiarization of any new advanced weapons system for the armed forces, basically.
01:29And of course, our interoperability with this kind of weapons.
01:33As mentioned previously by the Commander-in-General of the Philippines,
01:36we are proposing for the same capabilities.
01:39So, as long as the MRC is here, we will maximize its utilization to train our personnel in these new technologies.
01:47The AFB previously stated that no country has the right to dictate to the Philippines
01:52if it will choose to place missiles in Luzon to defend itself.
01:58For GMA Integrated News, Chino Gaston, Akatutok, 24 Hours.
