The Pentagon announced plans to position new ground-based missiles in the Indo-Pacific region last year, after the US scrapped the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia. However, US allies, including the Philippines, South Korea and Japan, have expressed opposition to the deployment of new strategic weapons on their territory.
The US is developing and preparing to deploy a variety of new missiles, including “long-range precision” hypersonic weapons, in the Indo-Pacific region, US Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville has confirmed.Read More…
