Japan’s National Security Council proposal on Aegis Ashore alternatives

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Japan’s National Security Council met on Aug. 25 and one of the slides show the proposal to implement the Aegis Ashore missile defense system with the missile interceptors located on various types of platforms.

There are three main options, the first is to put everything on a mega floating platform, the second choice is to have the missile interceptors separated from the radar, and lastly is to combine the SPY-7 radar with existing warships equipped with Aegis systems.

For option two, the missiles inside a VLS can be mounted on a float, or a commercial vessel and lastly on a warship.

 

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Japan’s National Security Council met on Aug. 25 and one of the slides show the proposal to implement the Aegis Ashore missile defense system with the missile interceptors located on various types of platforms.

There are three main options, the first is to put everything on a mega floating platform, the second choice is to have the missile interceptors separated from the radar, and lastly is to combine the SPY-7 radar with existing warships equipped with Aegis systems.

For option two, the missiles inside a VLS can be mounted on a float, or a commercial vessel and lastly on a warship.

The main problem of the Aegis Ashore is that SM-3 missiles uses booster. As you know, short lived booster falls into ground nearby which is not a big deal in the sea. It creates a risk who lives around if it’s land based. They must be fired far away from populated areas which is very niche in Japan. This why they abondened their plans after local people of proposed sites had learnt the truth. This could be a hint to who still insisting boosterized Siper.

 

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The main problem of the Aegis Ashore is that SM-3 missiles uses booster. As you know, short lived booster falls into ground nearby which is not a big deal in the sea. It creates a risk who lives around if it’s land based. They must be fired far away from populated areas which is very niche in Japan. This why they abondened their plans after local people of proposed sites had learnt the truth. This could be a hint to who still insisting boosterized Siper.

Yes. That's why protests were held.

Most egregious, as far as local communities were concerned, was the lack of any guarantee that rocket boosters from the SM3 missiles would fall into designated drop areas and not land on residential neighborhoods, absent a fix that would take years to create at much higher cost. Even Prime Minister Abe's home prefecture of Yamaguchi, where the second system was to be installed, balked.