The U.S. Marine Corps deploys the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System via a KC-130J transport aircraft to the Batanes Island chain in the Philippines on May 25, 2025.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES—U.S. Marine Corps and Army missile systems will deploy to strategic Philippine Island chains between ...

Batanes and the Babuyan Islands may see cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms because of the frontal system, ...

O n April 22nd a Chinese aircraft-carrier strike group sailed within three nautical miles of the Philippines’ northernmost ...

US Marines deployed NMESIS launchers that fire anti-ship missiles to a critical waterway south of Taiwan. See photos of the new weapons system.

A low-pressure area (LPA) was spotted outside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) and is forecast to bring rain ...

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY Veterans and community members gathered across the islands Monday to remember fallen service members in Memorial Day commemoration events. At the National Memorial Cemetery of ...

the more secluded of the three main islands of Batanes. On this latest trip to the province as part of the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) Philippine Experience caravan, a program that highlights ...

MANILA – The low pressure area (LPA) outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is unlikely to develop into a ...

SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES >> A unit of Hawaii Marines is in the Philippines fielding new weapons for the first time amid simmering tensions with China.

sent its new Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System—better known as the NMESIS—on Saturday to the northern Batanes Islands in the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan. Formerly the ...