“This is a welcome development for the AFP … We can say that the more, the merrier. The more assets we have, the more that we are able to train more personnel,” Colonel Francel Margareth Padilla, the spokeswoman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), told reporters on Tuesday.
The US deployed one Typhon unit – also known as the Mid-Range Capability – to Northern Luzon in April last year as part of joint military drills, and it has remained there since. The Philippines has previously urged the US to further bolster its defence capabilities by adding a second Typhon unit.
Capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500km (1,550 miles), the Typhon can reach areas in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
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