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The U.S. Army’s Patriot missile-defense system has shot down a pair of targets flying off Luzon’s western coast, marking the first time the weapon has been fired in the Philippines.
A Patriot system deployed to the country last year, but Tuesday’s event — part of the annual Balikatan exercise between the United States and its longtime ally — went a step further.
Two launchers, positioned near a beach at Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui, fired Patriot Advanced Capability-2, or PAC-2, missiles that destroyed Kratos MQM-178 Firejet target missiles flying 10,000 feet over the West Philippine Sea.
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