On April 15, US time, the US Department of Defense's “Defense Visual Information Service” (DVIDS) website published news that the US Army's 1st Multi-Domain Task Force (1st MDTF) recently deployed a land-based medium range capability system (“Tifon” system) for the first time in northern Luzon in the Philippines. This deployment is a “landmark.” The report said that the current deployment of the “Typhon” system is part of the “Saraknib-24” (also translated as “Shield-24”) exercise by the US and the Philippines. At the beginning of April, the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force of the US Army departed from the Lewis-McCord Joint Base in Washington State, flew more than 8,000 miles (about 12,875 km) in 15 hours on a C-17 strategic transport aircraft, arrived in the Philippines on April 7, and completed the deployment of the “Tifon” system on April 11. (Global Network)