The US has canceled the deployment of its new Typhon missile system to Germany in a move that may be related to the action the Trump administration is taking against Berlin over its criticism of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
According to a report from Task & Purpose, the Trump administration stopped the deployment of 500 soldiers from the US Army’s 3rd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, a new artillery unit that operates HIMARS rocket systems and the Typhon, also known as the Mid-Range Capability (MRC).
The Typhon is a land-based launcher capable of firing Tomahawk missiles with a range of over 1,000 miles, meaning it could reach Russia from Germany. The US began developing the Typhon after it withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which banned Washington and Moscow from developing land-based missile systems with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles.
The US first withdrew from the INF in 2019, and the Biden administration announced in 2024 that it would deploy land-based missile systems to Germany by 2026 that would have been banned under the treaty. The Typhon system can also fire SM-6 missiles, which have a range of about 290 miles.
The US has deployed Typhon missile systems in the Asia Pacific and just used one to fire a Tomahawk missile during drills in the Philippines in April, a major provocation aimed at China. The main purpose of withdrawing from the INF treaty was to develop missiles to deploy against China. Russia had proposed maintaining a moratorium on the deployment of INF-range missiles in Europe, but the US ignored the offer, and Moscow eventually withdrew.
