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2010-07-22 Science & Technology

Japan 'Building Missiles to Counter China's Naval Power'

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-22 06:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Next development will be full-size, fully autonomous submarines/sea mines.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-22 08:31|| 2010-07-22 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 ... and deployed its own Aegis-class destroyers.

Did they buy a few from us or did they just steal the plans?

Posted by Steve White 2010-07-22 11:28|| 2010-07-22 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Re: Japanese Aegis.

They licensed it, and improved it along the way; they're supposed to be some of the better Burke-"clones" floating around the seas. They are built to be compatible with any sort of anti-ballistic-missile upgrades that are currently being developed or may be developed in the future.

Compare and contrast with the British, who thought they could replicate the functionality of the whole Aegis system, radar and missiles, from scratch, for what turned out to be a four-ship production run. Allegedly their equivalent to the ESSM just plain doesn't work, which means their two billion pound destroyers are sitting ducks for a couple million dollar supersonic SSM such as described in this article.

Posted by Things From Snowy Mountains 2010-07-22 11:43|| 2010-07-22 11:43|| Front Page Top

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