Overview

• The 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force deployed its Typhon launcher to Australia’s Bradshaw training area on July 15–16 and struck a maritime target 166 km away with an SM-6 missile.
• Encrypted digital command-and-control systems enabled secure remote observation and control from Fort Shafter in Hawaii during the live-fire exercise.
• The exercise confirmed joint targeting and C2 interoperability through coordination with Australia’s 10th Brigade via the land effects coordination cell.
• Leaders describe the strike as a key proof of concept for Multi-Domain Operations aimed at countering naval threats in contested Indo-Pacific littorals.
• Following the exercise, the Army has initiated evaluations of smaller form-factor hypersonic munitions and an improved GMLRS for future land-based maritime strike roles.