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| Japanese MoD releases further details about its future BMD destroyers |
| 2022-12-29 |
| [NavalNews] Japanese MoD Releases Further Details About Its Future BMD Destroyers On Dec. 23, Japan's Ministry of Defense announced its fiscal year 2023 budget request, in which we may learn more about Japan's future ballistic missile defense (BMD) destroyers, commonly known as ASEVs (Aegis system-equipped vessels). For the record, as Naval News previously reported, the ASEV is a vessel that has been decided to be built as an asset to defend Japan from the threat of ballistic missile attacks, mainly by North Korea, as an alternative to the Aegis Ashore, which has been canceled its deployment in 2020. In Japan, especially since 2016, the threat of ballistic missiles by North Korea has been widely recognized, and since then, Aegis destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) have been deployed in the Sea of Japan at all times to be on the alert for ballistic missile launches by North Korea. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 What about China? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-12-29 11:27 |
| #1 I misunderstood BMD. I thought their military was going more fetishized crazy than ours is. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-29 10:32 |