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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

US pushes Japan on missile interceptor coproduction

SM-2The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency is pressing Tokyo to clear the sale of advanced missile interceptors, codeveloped with Japan, to third countries and to agree to joint production.

The United States plans to deploy the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA upgrade by 2018, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly said in a Jan. 3 letter to Nobushige Takamizawa, director general of policy at the Japanese defense ministry.

The system is a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's plan to thwart any Iranian long-range ballistic missiles that could be tipped with chemical, biological or nuclear warheads.

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