Japan Achieves Third Ballistic Missile Intercept

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Kauai HI (SPX) Nov 04, 2010 - The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) achieved its third ballistic missile intercept using a Raytheon Standard Missile-3. During Thursday's test, which marked the 18th SM-3 intercept, the SM-3 Block IA missile engaged and destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target more than 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Personnel at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on K ... more

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A Successful U.S.-Japan Missile - Defense Test

Photo: In this image provided by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency a Standard Missile – 3 is launched Thursday from the Japanese destroyer JS Kirishima in a joint missile defense intercept test with the Missile Defense Agency in the mid-Pacific. The U.S. and Japanese militaries said Thursday the JS Kirishima fired an interceptor missile that shot down a separating medium-range missile target about 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Missile Defense Agency/The Associated Press

U.S. And Japan Stage Successful Missile - Defense Test -- New York Times/Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese naval destroyer equipped with a Lockheed Martin Corp Aegis ballistic missile defence system carried out a successful flight-intercept test on Thursday in a "milestone" of growing cooperation, Japanese and U.S. forces announced.

The test focussed attention on mounting U.S. missile defence ties with Tokyo even as Washington urges its NATO allies to join in a NATO-wide shield prompted largely by concerns over Iran.

Japan's interest in missile shields jumped in August 1998 when North Korea test-fired a Taepo Dong-1 ballistic missile that flew over Japan before falling in the Pacific.

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Japan Tests SM-3 Ballistic Missile Interceptor 

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More News On Yesterday's Successful Missile Defense Test

Japan tests U.S.-made ABM system -- UPI
Japan carries out successful missile-defense test -- Stars And Stripes
Japanese Warship Intercepts Missile in Test -- Global Security Newswire
Raytheon interceptor destroys another ballistic missile -- Seattle PI
Orbital Successfully Launches Medium Range Target for Joint U.S./Japan Missile Defense Test -- Market Watch
Japanese destroyer shoots down mid-range ballistic missile in test off Hawaii -- Canadian Press/AP

 

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Diplomat Optimistic on U.S.-Russian Missile Shield Collaboration

The United States and Russia have a good chance of establishing plans to carry out joint missile defense work, Interfax yesterday quoted U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns as saying (see GSN, June 25).

"The decisions that President [Barack] Obama took last autumn with regard to missile defense when he significantly adjusted American plans for missile defense have opened up new opportunities for cooperation with Russia. And we are certainly committed to explore those," Burns said.

The Obama administration announced last fall it plans over a period of years to deploy land- and sea-based variants of the U.S. Standard Missile 3 interceptor in and around Europe. The systems would be intended to provide a shield against short- and medium-range Iranian missiles (see GSN, Sept. 18, 2009).

The Kremlin had strenuously objected to a now-scrapped missile shield plan put forward by the Bush administration, which sought to deploy missile interceptors in Poland and a radar site in the Czech Republic. It has appeared wary of the Obama program.
"Obviously given the history of this issue, given the difficulties that we've had in the past it takes time to do that. But we believe there are real opportunities here in the interests of both of our countries to go forward," the diplomat said.
Washington and Moscow "have begun to explore some practical areas of cooperation," he said.

"In missile defense, for example, we are conducting a joint threat assessment of ballistic missiles," Burns said. "We've also begun to explore within the Russia-NATO Council ways in which we might resume cooperation in missile defense" (see GSN, July 26; Interfax, Sept. 13).

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