Saturday, June 24, 2006
Japan, U.S. to make new interceptor
Japan and the U.S. formalized an agreement Friday to cooperate on a ballistic missile defense system that will allow them to develop a next-generation missile interceptor, the Foreign Ministry said.
Foreign Minister Taro Aso and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer signed the pact, which allows the two sides to begin the joint missile development this fiscal year.
In addition, Aso and Schieffer inked another document in which Japan reaffirmed its policy to exempt arms exports to the U.S. related to the joint missile defense project from its weapons export ban, on condition that the arms are strictly managed.
Japan adopted three arms export principles in 1967, banning exports to countries under communist rule, those subject to U.N. sanctions or involved in international conflict. The government in 1976 expanded that policy to include all weapons exports.
MSDF in intercept test
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The United States on Thursday successfully carried out the eighth intercept test of its sea-based missile defense system, with a Aegis-equipped Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer taking part for the first time, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said.
The "hit-to-kill" test involved a Standard Missile-3 interceptor missile fired by the U.S. Navy's Aegis cruiser USS Shiloh off Hawaii to shoot down a warhead separated from an incoming ballistic missile outside Earth's atmosphere.
The MSDF destroyer Kirishima took part in the test off Kauai, performing long-range surveillance and tracking exercises together with another U.S. Aegis destroyer.
). ça a bien chauffé pour eux en Cote d'Ivoire me semble t'il ces derniers temps...
vu le nombre d'ogives nucléaires qu'ils ont ...
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