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Japan’s Government to study 2 additional missile defense systems

: Nov 22, 2013 - : 5:46 am

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The Japanese government will next fiscal year begin studying the introduction of two new interceptor missile systems, which have been developed and deployed in the United States, to make the nation’s missile defense more multilayered to improve its capability to deal with North Korean ballistic missiles, according to sources.

The government will study the introduction of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system and the ground-based Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) system.

Japan’s missile defense system is designed on the premise that enemy missiles are intercepted in flight by SM-3 interceptor missiles fired from Aegis destroyers or by ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile units.

The THAAD system is capable of shooting down ballistic missiles in space and in the upper atmosphere on reentry. It can deal with missiles over wider areas, even if SM-3 missiles fail to intercept enemy ballistic missiles.

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