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Marines, Army deploying missile systems to Luzon Strait
« on: June 01, 2025, 11:45:21 am »
Marines, Army deploying missile systems to Luzon Strait
By Todd South
 Wednesday, May 28, 2025
 
 
Marine Corps and Army missile systems are set to deploy to a key chokepoint in the Philippine Island chains for anti-ship drills during the military exercise known as KAMANDAG.

The unmanned, anti-ship Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, and the Army’s High Mobility Rocket Artillery System will feature prominently in the exercise with their emplacement between Luzon and Taiwan, U.S. Naval Institute reported.


The 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment’s NMESIS is heading to Batanes, the northernmost portion of Philippine territory. The platform first reached the island of Basco and Batan for Balikatan 2025, a maritime security exercise.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2025/05/28/marines-army-deploying-missile-systems-to-luzon-strait/
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Re: Marines, Army deploying missile systems to Luzon Strait
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2025, 11:48:28 am »
I don't know what it's like today, but in 1974, on my first trip through the islands at night, you could see people cooking over campfires on most of the islands.  To say it was backward would be an understatement, and it wouldn't surprise me if it hasn't changed much. **nononono*
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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