Text Fwd: Japan, Missile tests in collaboration with the United States 일본, 미국과 공동으로 하와이에서 미사일 방어 요격 실험, 10월 28일

* Image source: Stars and Stripes, Oct. 29, 2010

'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'
*Image source: DMZ Hawai'i 카우아이, 니하우, 카울라 섬
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[국문 번역][Site Fwd: DMZ Hawai’i] Presentation given at the International Conference For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World [With Map]
비핵, 평화, 정의, 지속가능한 세계를 위한 국제회의 하와이 발표문[지도 함께]
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Global Security Newswire
October 28, 2010
Japan to Test Missile Interceptor

Japan is set today to test a missile defense system in collaboration with the
United States, Reuters reported (see GSN, Oct. 15).

The flight-intercept trial near Hawaii is intended to demonstrate Japan's readiness to properly field a Raytheon Standard Missile 3 Block 1A interceptor against a medium-range ballistic missile target, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said.

The Japanese destroyer JS Kirishima has been outfitted with defense contractor Lockheed Martin's Aegis ballistic missile defense system. It is one of six Japanese battleships to be supplied with the technology....

The missile interceptor test is expected to confirm "the ability of the Japan Aegis BMD system to monitor and report ballistic missile track information and assess the ability of the Japan Aegis BMD system to plan a BMD mission in tactical situations," the Pentagon branch said.
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Japan is working with Washington on preparing a bigger and more advanced
interceptor -- the SM-3 Block 2A -- which could be fielded in approximately
eight years (Jim Wolf, Reuters, Oct. 28).

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Hawaii: Pentagon Tests Sea-Based Missile Interception
Thu Oct 28, 2010

Hawaii News Now
October 28, 2010
Missile defense system testing to take place on Kauai

KAUAI: On Kauai, the Pacific Missile Range Facility plans to test its missile defense system Thursday.

The Navy will fire a rocket from land out to sea, and a Japanese war ship will try to intercept it.

The launch time is not revealed to any of the participants to simulate a real world scenario.
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