China is celebrating. The country commemorates the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II. Within that framework, on September 3, Beijing converted Tiananmen’s Square in the center of an outside demonstration as few have been seen to date. More than 10,000 military personnel participated in a parade that lasted about 70 minutes and that the authorities themselves announced as something unpublished for a reason: they were going to present weapons that the world had not seen until now. At least in his possession.
On the margin of ballistic missiles, the vision of Chinese defense passes through drones, directed energy weapons, new generation combat fighters, furtive airplanes and a great maritime power that served as a message to the world about the country’s military self -sufficiency and how They can change order in the Pacific. And that without taking into account what we have not seen. Being an extremely sensitive area, especially for recent encounters with Japan and, above all, Taiwan, is something to take seriously.
The United States response has not taken long to arrive: They have confirmed that they will deploy their avant -garde Typhon missile system on Japanese soil within the Exercises Resolute Dragon. And it is something that China has liked anything, but neither does Russia.
Resolute Dragon and the Typhon missiles in Japan
Allied forces perform joint exercises. In them they focus on the coordination for the defense of areas in the event of an open war, and those that the United States and Japan do jointly are called Dragon Resolute. The 2025 exercises will be held from September 11 to 25 and will focus on the defense of remote islands of the Japanese archipelago.
Thus, the terrestrial self -defense forces of Japan and the United States marines will test their response capacity to an attack, and The great contribution of the United States for the year Resolute Dragon This year is the Typhon missile platform.
Also called MID-RANGE CAPABILITY, or MRC, it is a mobile shuttle in standard containers, but which is able to shoot both Missile Tomahawk and the SM-6. The Tomahawk are subsonic missiles with a flush flight profile capable of conducting precision attacks against terrestrial or naval objectives in a range of between 1,500 to 2,400 kilometers.
SM-6 are less striking, since they have a range of 240 kilometers and are more focused on aerial defense, anti-man-and defense against ballistic missiles. The Typhon system can be deployed in heavy vehicles and can be transported by land, sea and air, and although it is not planned that any missile will be launched, its presence alone It has been taken as an attack by China.
As we read in Reuters, it was a spokesman for the Japanese forces who confirmed that the US will deploy Typhon during the exercises, and the response has arrived by Guo Xiaobing, director of the Center for Studies on China’s Weapons Control. In a statement, he assures that, although Japan and the US affirm that the deployment is temporary and will be removed after the year, we must not trust. The reason? The same said when Typhon deployed in similar exercises in the Philippines during the past year and, according to China, the system has remained there since then.
“These movements not only increase the surveillance of neighboring countries, but also represent hidden dangers for Japan’s own security – Guo Xiaobing
The manager considers that it is a movement that “directly undermines the legitimate security interests of other countries and raises a real threat to regional strategic stability.”
In addition, he affirms that, if a war against the United States explodes, it is likely that “The system becomes a tool that drags Japan towards turbulent waters”and he has not lost the opportunity to remember that “this year 80 years of the end of World War II, something that should cause a deep reflection and a good neighborhood policy, but Tokyo seems anxious to break the armament policy exclusively oriented to the defense.”
This, by the way, is not new, since in 2023 we count how Japan broke with seven decades of demilitarization by considerably increasing its military budget. That China has not made this announcement a fun is a fact, but as we read in Business Insider, Russia does not see it with good eyes either. Maria Zakharova, spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described the maneuver as “another destabilizing step within Washington’s strategy to increase the potential of short and medium -sized land missile missiles”, adding that Typhon’s presence in Japan “It represents a threat direct strategy for Russia”.
Until now, as we say, Typhon had only been deployed in logistics maneuvers in the Philippines in April last year, as well as in Australia in July of this 2025. The particularity of the deployment in Australia is that a real shot of an SM-6 against a maritime objective was performed, demonstrating the anti-man-system capacity of the system from the mainland.
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