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Japan Hails Interceptor Missile Test With US
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 10, 2006 Japan on Thursday hailed the successful testing of an interceptor missile being researched with the United States, saying that development should now go ahead. "It shows how much the technological ability has improved," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters. "I want to see both of us go forward in development." A modified SM-3 missile was launched by an Aegis cruiser off Hawaii on Wednesday and successfully deployed the new Japanese-designed nose cone, the US Missile Defense Agency said. The test is part of joint defense research begun in 1999, a year after North Korea stunned the world by firing a missile over Japan into the Pacific. The two countries are scheduled to begin setting up a separate missile defense system in the fiscal year starting in April. The successul test "proved we can have strong confidence in the Japan-US joint development of the ballistic missile defense system," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government spokesman. On Wednesday North Korea carried out two new tests of missiles with a range of five kilometers (three miles), Japan's Nippon Television Network said, quoting officials of the Japanese Defence Agency and other authorities. But Abe said the type of missiles that Pyongyang reportedly tested would not threaten the security of Japan. "Even if North Korea launches such land-to-sea missile or short-distance land-to-land missiles, they would not have an immediate impact on the security of our state," he said.
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Israeli Says Arrow Missile Can Hit Iranian Shihab Missiles
Washington (UPI) Mar 09, 2006Senior Israeli defense officials are publicly proclaiming the reliability of their Arrow anti-ballistic missile interceptor in what appears to be a clear deterrence warning to Iran not to try and launch any nuclear missile strike against the Jewish state. |
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