Russia has protested the deployment of US Typhoon missile systems in Japan and demanded their immediate withdrawal from Japanese territory.
So what is this weapon, and what threat might it pose to the Russian Far East? Military expert Alexei Ram explained this to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Moscow had expressed concern about Japanese military activity in the fall of 2025. At that time, the Russian Foreign Ministry approached the Japanese embassy to protest the conduct of large-scale military exercises, called "Joint Exercise 2025," which included the entire territory of the country, including the island of Hokkaido, which is geographically close to Russia.
The statement also noted that a battery of the Typhoon ground system, which was deployed at the US military base in Iwakuni as part of joint Japanese-American exercises, has not yet been withdrawn from the Japanese archipelago.
The Typhoon is a land-based launch platform designed to use Tomahawk cruise missiles, which have a range of up to 1,800 kilometers in their land-based version. It can also use modified SM-6 surface-to-air missiles, which have a range exceeding 500 kilometers, to strike land and sea targets.
The Russian expert believes that the deployment of this system is, in effect, the deployment of long-range cruise missiles off the coast of Russia.
The expert suggested taking a ruler and measuring a distance of 1,800 kilometers on a map, which is the range these missiles could cover. This includes the cities of Vladivostok, Sakhalin, Khabarovsk, and Komsomolsk, along with the military, strategic, and industrial facilities located within them.
The expert continued: "Therefore, the Russian Foreign Ministry's concern is more understandable than ever, and the demands are consistent with the emerging threat."
Typhoon is the first system of its kind developed by the United States since its withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019.
A typical Typhoon battery consists of:
4 launch platforms (launchers).
Battery operations center.
Support vehicles include trucks, trailers, generators and feed-in vehicles.
Each launch platform is mounted on a truck and includes 4 vertical launch cells, inside a 12-meter-long container.
The system is designed to carry out precise, long-range strikes against targets deep within enemy territory, such as command centers, airports, and missile launch sites.
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