Typhon (Mid-Range Capability)

The US Army’s mobile, containerized launcher that puts Navy Tomahawks and SM-6s on land — restoring a 500–2,000+ km strike band, and now the most geopolitically charged new fielding in the American ground arsenal.

Overview

Typhon Mid-Range Capability (MRC), also known as the Strategic Mid-Range Fires System (SMRF), is a truck-mounted, containerized vertical-launch system that repurposes the Navy’s Tomahawk cruise missile and SM-6 multi-role missile for land-based use. A single battery pairs four Typhon launchers — each carrying four strike-length Mark 41 VLS cells — with a Battery Operations Center, giving the Army a 16-missile salvo weight with anti-ship, deep-strike, and air-defense reach in a single sortable package. The system entered service at the end of 2023, restored the ground-based mid-range envelope that the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty had banned for more than three decades, and has already been deployed to the Philippines, Australia, and Japan, triggering protests from Beijing and Moscow while a prospective German sale has collapsed amid trans-Atlantic tensions.

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