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New Details on Japan’s Future BMD Vessels Revealed

September 12, 2022
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| Japan, Missile Defense, Radars

By Yoshihiro Inaba, Published by Naval News, 12 September 2022 Here are the latest details on the Aegis system-equipped vessels (ASEVs), Japan's future ballistic missile defense (BMD) ships. On August 31, 2022, Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) released its budget request for FY2023, which included a line item on Aegis

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New Chinese radar looks toward Japan, satellite image shows

April 18, 2022
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| China, India, Japan, Radars, South Korea

By Mike Yeo, Published by Yahoo!, 18 April 2022 MELBOURNE, Australia — A satellite photo has revealed that China has built a new long-range, early-warning radar that can be used to detect ballistic missiles from thousands of miles away, likely giving it coverage of all of Japan. The image, taken

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Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi speaks at the Hofu Kita Air Base in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Nov. 14. In the speech, he unveiled the ministry’s plan of establishing a second Space Operations Squadron in the airbase within fiscal 2022 to monitor any threat using electromagnetic waves to its satellites. Credit: Japan’s Ministry of Defense

Japan to launch 2nd space defense unit to protect satellites from electromagnetic attack

November 15, 2021
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| Japan, Moon missions

By Park Si-soo, Published by SpaceNews, 15 November 2021 SEOUL, South Korea — Japan will launch a second space defense unit at an airbase in the country’s west within the next 18 months to monitor electromagnetic wave threats to its satellites. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi announced the plan of establishing

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A U.S Army MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile is fired from Australia for the first time ever, Friday, July 16, 2021. The missile was launched from Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, during the Talisman Sabre exercise. (Australian Defence Force)

Moving missiles: Army shuttles Patriot batteries around the Pacific in message to adversaries

July 16, 2021
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| Australia, Japan, Missile Defense, News

By Seth Robson, Published by Stars and Stripes, 16 July 2021 The Army is showing off its ability to quickly move defensive and offensive missiles around the Pacific amid threats to U.S. bases in Japan. The latest demonstration involves the deployment of Patriot missile defense launchers to Australia for the

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Japan’s new Aegis ships estimated to cost 900 bil. yen: sources

May 21, 2021
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| Japan, Missile Defense

Published by Kyodo News, 21 May 2021 Tokyo - Japan is estimating the total cost for two new destroyers equipped with the Aegis missile interceptor system will reach at least 900 billion yen ($8.27 billion), more than double that for the scrapped land-based defense system plan, government sources said Friday.

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Japan bolsters capabilities in electronic warfare, space and cyber realms

May 3, 2021
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| Japan, Space Strategy

Published by Japan Times, 3 May 2021 KYODO - The government is accelerating improvements in the Self-Defense Forces’ outer space, cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum capabilities in the face of Chinese and Russian military buildups. Together with the conventional land, sea and air domains, having advantages in the new fields is

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Tokyo urged to increasingly focus on high-power microwave- and laser-based weapons

March 29, 2021
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| Japan, Lasers, Missile Defense

By Kosuke Takahashi, Published in Janes, 29 March 2021 The Japan Ministry of Defense’s (MoD’s) National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) has urged Tokyo to increasingly focus on the development of advanced military technologies such as high-power microwave- and laser-based weapon systems to help counter the growing missile threat posed

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