The United States is deploying units of its NMESIS (Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System) to the island ...

Beijing warned against "playing with fire" following reports that U.S. Marines' NMESIS launchers will deploy to Taiwan-facing ...

Thousands of allied American and Filipino forces have opened annual combat drills that will include simulating the defense of ...

The United States is sending powerful anti-ship missiles to a very important area close to Taiwan. The Luzon Strait is the ...

Balikatan military exercises between the U.S. and the Philippines includ about 9,000 American and 5,000 Filipino military ...

The missiles are being deployed to “a strategic first island chain chokepoint” in the waters between Taiwan proper and the Philippines, US-based Naval News reported. The distance between the southern ...

The NMESIS will be airlifted to the Batanes islands for "simulated fires missions," the Marine Corps said, meaning no live missiles will be launched. In addition to the NMESIS, the Philippines has ...

According to Philippine media, the annual US-Philippines "Balikatan" joint ... With the NMESIS' 185-kilometer range, its basing across islands in Batanes could threaten vessels entering the ...

The West Philippine Sea is west of the Philippine archipelago, stretching from the west of the Batanes group of islands in the north to the western coast of Palawan in the south. Who owns the West ...

Marine forces in Japan previously deployed the new radar system in an exercise last summer. Positioned between the Philippines and Taiwan, the Batanes islands are within one of the strategic ...

No actual missile launches from NMESIS are planned. Importantly, these NMESIS will be deployed in the Batanes Islands, located in the Luzon Strait, northern Philippines, just 150 km away from Taiwan.