{"id":20978,"date":"2023-12-04T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20978"},"modified":"2023-12-04T03:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:24:17","slug":"us-to-deploy-ground-based-missiles-in-indo-pacific-in-2024-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20978","title":{"rendered":"US to Deploy Ground-Based Missiles in Indo-Pacific in 2024 &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>MOSCOW (Sputnik) &#8211; The US military is planning to deploy ground-based intermediate-range missiles in the Indo-Pacific region in 2024 in order to deter China, the Asian newspaper reported on Sunday, citing US Army Pacific spokesman Rob Phillips.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The United States might deploy land-based versions of the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) with an estimated range of 500 kilometers (310.6 miles) to 2,700 kilometers, media reported, adding that the US official did not specify the expected location and timing of deployment.<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20231203\/us-to-deploy-ground-based-missiles-in-indo-pacific-in-2024---reports-1115352084.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This will be the first arsenal in the region since the end of the Cold War and the first deployment of intermediate-range missiles by the United States since the country withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (the INF Treaty).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The INF treaty, signed between the Soviet Union and the US in 1987, banned the countries from developing and possessing ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges from 500-5,500 kilometers. In 2019, former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20231203\/us-to-deploy-ground-based-missiles-in-indo-pacific-in-2024---reports-1115352084.html\">Sputnikglobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Sputnik) &#8211; The US military is planning to deploy ground-based intermediate-range missiles in the Indo-Pacific region in 2024 in order to deter China, the Asian newspaper reported on Sunday, citing US Army Pacific spokesman Rob Phillips. The United States might deploy land-based versions of the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[2801,2151,24736,24737,1156,20943],"class_list":["post-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-2801","tag-deployment","tag-indo-pacific-region","tag-land-based-missiles","tag-military","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}