Japan: Improved Type 12 surface-to-ship guided ammunition: Extends range to 1500km
“The Hankyoreh Newspaper”: (September 2nd)
An article entitled “Japan to improve Type 12 surface-to-ship guided ammunition” was posted.
Introducing the most noticeable part of the 2022 Japan Defense Budget.
2022 Defense Budget:
Japan is steadily consolidating its defense system against foreign military threats.
Keep enemy ships away from remote islands
Aim from outside the enemy ship attack area (stand off),
37.9 billion yen will be added to the long-range missile development cost.
Ministry of Defense of Japan:
At the end of August, we introduced the details of the defense budget for the next fiscal year.
Created a report entitled “Our Defense and Budget”,
“Our Defense and Budget”:
It was released on August 31st.
In this report, “37.9 billion yen was recorded as the development cost for improving the Type 12 surface-to-ship guided bullet capability.”
The Government of Japan has been conducting “research and development to significantly improve the performance of this missile” since last year.
Type 12 surface-to-ship guided bullet range:
Current,
Type 12 surface-to-ship range is 200km,
Level up this to a range of 900km.
Eventually, it will be extended to a range of 1500km.
Range of medium-range missiles:
It is far from 3000-5500km.
However, the power is great even at 1500km.
Expansion of missile operation platform:
The above report stipulates the following:
In addition to the ground-launched type
From next year, ship launch type and
Start development of aircraft launch type.
The budget for that is 37.9 billion yen.
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“The Hankyoreh Newspaper”: Improving Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Guided Bullet
(September 2nd)
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga
Cabinet meeting on December 18, last year:
To deal with attacks from outside the threat zone
Strengthen standoff defense capabilities and
Standoff missile maintenance and research,
Operate from various platforms.
Develop a type 12 surface-to-ship guided bullet capability improvement type.
In December of last year, we decided on the content of the above purpose.
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