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Tokyo to equip F-2 jets with new air-to-ship missiles

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TOKYO • The government plans to equip the Japan Air Self-Defence Force’s (JASDF) F-2 fighters with a new air-to-ship missile from next fiscal year, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learnt..
TOKYO • The government plans to equip the Japan Air Self-Defence Force’s (JASDF) F-2 fighters with a new air-to-ship missile from next fiscal year, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learnt.
It will allocate several hundred millions of yen in a budgetary request for fiscal year 2018 to mass produce the missile, which is currently under development, sources said. The new missile will be the first supersonic air-to-ship type to be made in the country and is characterised as being difficult to intercept.
Japan is hastening efforts to improve the performance of its defence equipment to counter China, which is building up its maritime capacity.
Japan’s new missile will travel significantly faster, with a speed of around Mach 3 – on a par with the most advanced missiles of the same variety overseas.

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