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Filipino soldiers experienced the advanced US weaponry during Balikatan war games

About 8,000 Filipino and American soldiers are joining the two-week military exercise, which focus on command and control, communications, logistics and mobility procedures to address humanitarian and maritime security. A new addition to the exercise was the live fire demonstration of two High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) using reduced-ranged practice rockets.

"We are really progressing and hopefully by next year we could come with a better, and maybe much more bigger exercise, and hopefully we can get in newer technologies and hardware," Philippine exercise commander Alexander Lopez said.

The annual war games come under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty(MDT), one of a web of security alliances the United States built in the Asia and Pacific region during the Cold War.

The government has recently approved an agreement which allows a greater U.S. military presence and storage of equipment in five military bases amid rising tension in the South China sea.

US defense Secretary Ash Carter observes part of the exercises.

officials from both parties have said that the exercises are not aimed at any particular country despite China's more assertive pursuit of its claims in the South China sea. The united States has conducted what it calls "freedom of navigation" patrols in the area and planning to sail inside the so called 12 mile radius. China claims almost the entire South China sea, believed to have huge deposits of oil and gas.

An MV-22 Osprey, tilt rotor aircraft, lands to insert the joint rapid reaction force (JRRF) at the Antique Air Field in order to seize a scenario-based objective.

Philippine marines with the joint rapid reaction force(JRRF), conduct an amphibious landing utilizing Philippine logistical navy ships to seize a a scenario-based objective.

Despite of the language barriers, the Philippines and US service men had develop a shoulder-to-shoulder training during the annual Balikatan exercise.

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