During a visit to Korea, the Commander of the US Army in the Pacific Pacific Charles Flynn said the US military has developed “long-range precision fires” adding the SM-6 interceptor and Tomahawk sea-attack missile to the list of weapons that can be launched from the system. new launch system.
This statement is General Flynn’s first confirmation of the types of weapon systems that will be deployed in the region this year.
“Systems That system will soon be deployed in the region,” General Flynn said in an interview with Yonhap news agency at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek on April 6.
However, he has not yet Indicates where and when the system will be located. “Where and when the system will be placed I will not talk about that issue now.”
SM-6 with a range of more than 240km is designed to intercept ballistic missiles in while Tomahawk is a subsonic cruise missile that can attack targets about 2,500km away.
Experts believe that this may be the ground-based Typhon system operated by the US military from 2023. According to Japanese media, the US territory of Guam in the Western Pacific is considered a potential location for the deployment of this system.
It marks a significant development step when such a weapons system will be deployed in the region for the first time since the United States and the former Soviet Union signed a 1987 treaty abolishing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF).
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