Army Accelerates “Ship-Sinking” Land-Fired Missiles in Pacific
Kris Osborn · March 27, 2025
By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military Modernization
US Army Pacific is fast-tracking highly networked, precise land fired weapons able to detect and destroy enemy warships from shore, as part of its high-speed push to refine tactics and employ emerging technologies while training with its Multi-domain Task Forces.
Roughly one fourth of the Army is now assigned to the Pacific, and the service is breaking through with multi domain networking and precision weapons attack. Medium and even long-range precision guided missiles can be fired from land to destroy enemy ships, especially when supported by high-speed networking transmissions from space, air or surface nodes.
In support of this effort to massively improve the Army’s ability to destroy enemy targets at sea, the service has moved its Mid-Range-Capability Typhon Missile System to the Pacific, a medium-range, precision-guided land-fired cruise missile capable of hitting maritime targets from coastal positions. The Typhon is both long-range and precision guided, and Typhons now stationed in the Northern Philippines can hold ocean areas at risk as far away as 1,200 miles. This is extremely significant, given that the Chinese coastline is roughly 1,854 miles from the Philippines, therefore the Typhon can cover two-thirds of the ocean area between the two countries with highly-precise, ship-sinking ground fires.
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