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Monday, November 19, 2007

Japanese Destroyer Successfully Completed Tracking Exercise

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering, III, Missile Defense Agency Director, and Rear Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, Maritime Staff Office, Ministry of Defense, Tokyo, Japan, today announced the successful completion of a tracking exercise by the Japanese Destroyer, JS KONGO.

A target missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii yesterday. Shortly after lift-off, the crew of the JS KONGO, utilizing their 3.6 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), acquired and tracked the target, developed a fire control solution and simulated the launch of a Standard Missile – 3 (SM-3) Block IA interceptor.

The equipment performed according to design and a simulated intercept occurred minutes later above the Pacific Ocean.

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