The US Navy has begun deploying its land-based Aegis missile defense system, Aegis Ashore, in Guam. Located in the middle of the Western Pacific Ocean, the US island territory of Guam is a ...
July 18, 2008: Israel has been so impressed by the U.S. Navy's Aegis anti-missile system, that it wants to buy and install one to help defend ... Cost is another matter. Getting Aegis ashore quickly, ...
U.S. defense company Raytheon is lobbying Japanese lawmakers to replace Lockheed Martin Corp. as the supplier of powerful radars as Tokyo reconsiders plans for two Aegis Ashore missile defense ...
A sea-based alternative to the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system could cost taxpayers at least double the estimate for the now-abandoned land-based system, an internal Defense Ministry ...
Japan’s picked a new $1.2 billion radar for its two ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defense sites. The price for two Aegis Ashore batteries could exceed $5.4 billion -- over twice the ...
Aegis Ashore was supposed to add an extra layer ... Three proposals under consideration for a new sea-based missile-defense layer. Murano Masashi, an expert on Japan-US security policy at the ...
The cancellation of the controversial missile defense program is seen as discrimination by Okinawans, who have long fought base construction on similar grounds.
Japan will spend billions of dollars to bolster missile defense to counter the growing threat from North Korea. On December 19th, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved the installation of ...
TASS/. Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono announced on Thursday that the country’s authorities had made the decision to annul the plan of deploying US-made Aegis Ashore missile defense systems ...
On Tuesday, Japan’s government made a decision to expand the country’s missile defense shield with the US-made Aegis Ashore missile defense systems TOKYO, December 20. /TASS/. Japan’s plans ...
The U.S. first developed the Aegis ballistic missile defense system for ships and then adapted it for land. The U.S. has an Aegis Ashore site in Romania and is developing another in Poland.