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Japan to build two BMD warships and improve Type 12 missile

11th December 2020 - 20:00 GMT | by Koji Miyake in Tokyo

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Two new ballistic missile defence warships will be even more expensive than the Aegis Ashore system that Japan cancelled earlier.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato announced in a 9 December press conference that the Japanese government had decided to build two additional Aegis warships instead of procuring Aegis Ashore.

The warships will be equipped with SPY-7 radar and be larger than current Maya-class Aegis destroyers that have a 10,250t full-load displacement. The MoD will equip them with SM-3 missiles for the ballistic missile defence, plus SM-6 missiles to counter cruise missiles.

The estimated price per vessel is JPY240 billion ($2.3 billion). That means their price will be twice the cost of one Aegis Ashore system. The MoD is

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Koji Miyake is a Tokyo-based writer.

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