{"id":863329,"date":"2026-09-28T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863329\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:30:09","slug":"powerful-u-s-missile-system-to-be-stored-at-okinawas-kadena-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863329\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful U.S. missile system to be stored at Okinawa\u2019s Kadena Air Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful U.S. missile system that has been deployed in Japan for joint military exercises with the Self-Defense Forces will be stored at a key military base in Okinawa Prefecture indefinitely, according to the Okinawa Defense Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Typhon midrange missile system is believed capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles as far as 1,600 kilometers \u2014 effectively putting parts of China and Russia within striking distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The advanced weapon was deployed for the allies\u2019 Orient Shield exercises for the first time this month. Those exercises, which began Sept. 8 and ran through Thursday, came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/06\/21\/japan\/us-typhon-missiles-japan-sdf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Typhon was sent to Kagoshima Prefecture<\/a> \u2014 another first \u2014 for the joint Valiant Shield drills with the SDF in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A powerful U.S. missile system that has been deployed in Japan for joint military exercises with the Self-Defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,144,6052,166318,68162,3,123236,39647,1206,2830,364336,18846,47515,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-863329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-china","tag-defense","tag-defense-ministry","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-okinawa","tag-pla","tag-russia","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-bases","tag-u-s-military","tag-u-s-japan-relations","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}