“We have been following closely the ongoing discussion in Japan over several years about the possibility of buying advanced missile defense systems from the US,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, as cited by TASS. Japan aiming to boost missile defense with US Aegis Ashore system – media “Of course, we saw […]
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Japan aiming to boost missile defense with US Aegis Ashore system – media
August 17th, 2017 Awake Goy
The Japanese Defense Ministry will include costs related to the Aegis Ashore system when drafting a budgetary request for the 2018 fiscal year, NHK reported. The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (ABMD) is aimed at providing defense from short to intermediate-range missiles. It consists of BMD-capable ships as well as a ground-based configuration. Japan sanctions […]