YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Japanese government plans to upgrade its eight Aegis-equipped guided-missile destroyers over coming years with Tomahawk cruise missiles purchased from the U.S ...

Japan is considering downsizing two destroyers to be built with the Aegis ballistic missile interceptor system from their original design in a bid to increase their mobility, government sources said ...

TOKYO -- Japan added two more vessels to its fleet of Aegis-equipped destroyers, raising to eight the number of ships capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. Two Maya-class Aegis destroyers ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry has secured funding to build two new Aegis destroyers, the country’s defense minister announced Tuesday. In a press conference, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said he ...

Asahi Shimbun reports that Japanese defense ministry officials are considering a specialized destroyer for the Aegis Ashore system in their 2024 fiscal budget plans.

Deployed at the MSDF's Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture, the Chokai will be the first Japanese Aegis destroyer equipped with a counterstrike capability.

The sale would allow Japan significant technical and computer support for its Aegis-class destroyers for the immediate future. The US State Department has agreed a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of ...

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin announced today it delivered the first shipset of four SPY-7 (V)1 radar antennas — which will be equipped on Japan’s future Aegis System Equipped Vessel (ASEV) — to ...

Japan has eight Aegis destroyers equipped for air- and missile-defense and plans to build two more dedicated missile defense ships centered around Lockheed-Martin SPY-7(V)1 radars. MELBOURNE, ...

On May 31, 2023 (around 6:30 a.m. Japan Standard Time), North Korea launched a satellite. North Korea announced the launch in advance, prompting the Japanese government to deploy Aegis destroyers in ...

Japan has temporarily dropped plans to send a state-of-the-art Aegis destroyer to the Indian Ocean to support any US retaliation for the September 11 ...