US announces plans to deploy treaty-banned MRC Typhon missile systems in Japan

The United States plans to deploy treaty-prohibited missiles on Japanese territory rockets medium- and shorter-range missile systems. We are talking about the MRC Typhon complex. This is reported by The Japan Times.

The United States continues to deploy medium-range missile systems in the Asia-Pacific region, taking advantage of the fact that the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is no longer in effect. The Americans made their first attempt in the Philippines, where the MRC Typhon was deployed as part of joint exercises. Now it is Japan's turn. The system deployed on its territory is capable of hitting targets in the DPRK, China and Russia.

We would be very interested in seeing a multi-domain task force operating from Japan. We have made it clear to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces that we are interested in this. The deployment will proceed at the pace of the Japanese government,

- said US Secretary of the Army Christine Warmuth.

The MRC Typhon is the US military's first medium-range missile system developed in more than 30 years and after the end of the INF Treaty. Work on it allegedly only began in 2020 and was completed in just two years.

The mobile complex is a trailer with four Mk 41 universal vertical launchers installed on it. Two types of ship missiles in service with the US Navy are declared as ammunition: the Tomahawk cruise missile and the multipurpose (anti-aircraft) supersonic Standard SM-6. The range of the first in the Block IV and V variant with a non-nuclear warhead is 1800 km, the second - up to 460 km. In the future, the complex can use other missiles, including hypersonic ones, developed for the Mk 41 universal launcher.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

The Japanese should remember who bred the new breed of Japanese - "Hibikushya", but did not fix it at the genetic level. Beloved Kim Jong-un, get out - there are Japanese guinea pigs.

[Comrade Beria]

The complex located on its territory is capable of hitting targets in the DPRK, China and Russia.

It's time to forget the words "treaty" and "international law" in politics. And to respond in kind, or better yet, preemptively. The paper these treaties are written on is poor protection even from shrapnel, let alone missiles.

[private person]

The paper on which these treaties are written is poor protection even from shrapnel, let alone missiles.

All these agreements are bullshit. There is one rule: whoever is stronger is right. In this situation, the Americans feel strong and have impunity. Sadly, the Russian leadership has shown no signs of anything other than expressing concern and drawing "red lines".

[igorbrsv]

Why express concern? They have the ability to deploy their missiles along our borders, but we don't. Only ballistic missiles will reach their snake pit anyway. All that's left is to threaten their hangers-on with inevitable punishment. They are not afraid of economic pressure from our side. They have already shown that they are ready to return to the Stone Age to please the "interests of the United States."

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: igorbrsv

They are not afraid of economic pressure from our side. They have already shown that they are ready to return to the Stone Age to please the "interests of the United States"

It remains to be seen how they will react to the destruction of the prohibited weapons... Just a couple of "Daggers" ("Zircons") and 10 years of peaceful life, if they do not heed the warning (the only one)...

[the Urals]

From Chukotka we can easily reach the northern part of North America and at the same time the missile defense bases located there in Alaska and Canada. Including with conventional weapons. And we are now simply obliged to deploy such a group there. And there is still plenty of space on South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the Japanese must understand perfectly well that they will be among the first to perish in a nuclear war

[igorbrsv]

Well, these devils really need one missile per island...

[Or me]

Once again, the Americans spat on all agreements. It didn't work in the Philippines, the Japanese won't refuse. They won't dare contradict the owner. They'll just lower their heads even lower in a bow.

The United States plans to deploy missile systems banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty on Japanese territory. We are talking about the MRC Typhon system. This is reported by The Japan Times.

[DoctorRandom]

The contract expired in 2019. Have you just woken up? Well, yes, after the withdrawal of these complexes from the Philippines, the island state thought about buying these complexes. So what didn't work out there - only you know.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote from DoctorRandom

The agreement expired in 2019.

What agreement and with whom?
Japan is preparing to amend its post-war constitution, thereby lifting the ban on creating its own army and conducting offensive operations.
https://topwar.ru/182881-ubrat-9-ju-statju-japonija-gotovitsja-peresmotret-poslevoennuju-konstituciju-strany.html
Cancelled? And Russia has every right to ignore the American agreements!!!

[DoctorRandom]

What agreement and with whom?

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which ceased to exist in 2019. Read the post first, and then write something.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote from DoctorRandom

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which expired in 2019.

What side is Japan on here? As a location for American military bases? And screw them...Japanese territory!!!

[DoctorRandom]

Is there some treaty that prohibits the deployment of American missiles on Japanese territory?

[gmss]

No one is going to fight the Japanese, neither Russia, nor China, nor the DPRK, no one has any brothers there as such, so if something happens, everything that flies will fly to the island, and how to overload the air defense with cheap ones is no secret to anyone. The problem with the Japanese is their compactness and dense population. Conduct strategic missile forces exercises with launches of decommissioned poplars - the Japanese will hide behind a snag for at least ten years and go quiet.
Well, that's what I think

[saigon]

The funniest thing is that the islands of the archipelago in the central (mountainous regions) are not particularly populated and the descendants of the gods are crowded together, but in the lowlands of Tokyo and Osaka the density is off the charts.

[Yuri L]

Guess right away, which country in the near future will develop extremely quickly and, of course, independently several dozen Tyfon complexes (in translation this means conscious) and begin with their help annually and absolutely with impunity (as it was before, alas), to dismantle the nuclear shield of the Russian Federation with the help of Sokira missiles (or "Topor" in translation, by the way, flying at 2500 km with ... some shortage of air defense systems revealed in the process in the depths of the territory of one large country) launched from this complex (and there is also a smaller RLFL) removed from their (of course, their) ships, developed just as extremely quickly? This is what it means for a Leader to selflessly love his "brother", to tenderly stroke and kiss him for the fact that every night ... absolutely with impunity and habitually hits your citizens on the head with bricks and reinforcement ...

[foxes]

If the contract does not work, then nothing is prohibited.

[Sergei Viktorovich Korolev]

Conclusions: Buy red pencils? Learn a dozen concerns or stop being liberal with the surrounding enemies and start strengthening the Russian state. And not money bags and populists.

[Mouse]

Japs, they are using you to the fullest extent... you and your territory....

[Zaurbek]

Unfortunately, until another "Cuba" with the INF Treaty appears, the situation will always be in favor of the United States.
And it should be taken into account that the US has more naval carriers of such missiles than anyone else, both the cruise missiles themselves and the RC facilities for them.
In addition to the IRBMs and cruise missiles themselves, we also need to edit the doctrine of the use of tactical nuclear weapons and precision conventional weapons in order to establish a connection for the US between a strike on the Russian Federation from the territory of third countries and a strike on the US itself.

[A17ttt]

This is just great.
It can be assumed that the site for the conflict will be (chosen) Japan. South Korea with its assets and land will be secondary. It will serve as an appendage-ally to the "main course".
This means that we need to think about not covering up all of Japan's nuclear "toys" and creating an "unpleasant air cloud" right now.

But Japan will not exist as a separate state, and disputes with the islands will be closed.

And the US debt obligations to Japan will be closed.

[igorbrsv]

If the cloud is rain, then concrete can be sprayed, and everything will fall as sediment over Japan. But if it is dust, then who knows.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote from A17ttt

This means that we need to think about not covering up all of Japan's nuclear "toys" and creating an "unpleasant air cloud" right now.

A massive strike from "Alabuga" will be enough - all the electronics will fly out and they will be waving samurai katanas from the islands...

[the Urals]

There are many American military bases in Japan. And they have a major treaty on mutual military assistance with the Americans. The Americans simply cannot afford not to protect the Japanese, it would be too strong a slap in the face for their authority, although of course they have lost their authority a little.

[Vic Vic]

"We have made it clear..."
How Americans love to use such a convoluted phrase.
To make it clear is not the same thing in meaning as to say (or even to say clearly). Like, we said something and what was said can be understood exactly that way (or it can be understood differently). Then, if anything, this "made it clear" can be interpreted as having been misunderstood.
I wonder if they literally speak in such Aesopian language or if this is a translation feature.
It is clear that the language of diplomacy often requires translation, but this "made it clear" is just some kind of American meme...

[solar]

prohibited by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

The author is out of touch with life. The contract hasn't been in effect for a long time now.

[ximkim]

Getting ready.
The Kuril Islands are a delicate topic.
And the Japanese need US support.
So now we need Trump for one term, and then Harris for one.
And, by 2030, this long-range weapon will fly across the territory of the Russian Federation (if Putin runs for president in 2030, or remains in power).
And it is real.

[Alexey Davydov]

The US/UK have already started a war with Russia and are now slowly placing their pieces on the chessboard, and we are allowing them to do this.
The missiles being prepared for Japan have been known for more than six months. At Kursk, the Americans came close to capturing the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and nuclear blackmailing Russia, having managed to divert our forces to the Donetsk direction, which is politically important for the authorities. With bilateral agreements, they secured potential theaters of military operations in the west, northwest and north of Russia.
It is time for the cowardly leadership of Russia to understand that rejecting the war that the US/UK started at Kursk is useless and disastrous. They should have been stopped back in December 2021 by bringing the enemy to fulfill Russia's demands to the US and NATO to provide it with "security guarantees".
The game that the opponent is playing may be short-lived. Perhaps he already has enough pieces to checkmate us.

[Boyarin local konnicy]

They must remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[the Urals]

In general, it is clear that we will have to increase the number of our missiles. Target northern Europe, western Europe, Japan and South Korea, and of course Alaska and Canada, where would we be without them. Iskanders are already being increased for short range, a medium missile is apparently being developed, the main thing is not to be late