MSDF conducts missile interception drill in RIMPAC 2004

MSDF conducts missile interception drill in RIMPAC 2004

HONOLULU, United States - Destroyer Asakaze of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force fires a surface-to-air missile in a missile interception drill in waters some 100 kilometers northwest of Hawaii's Kauai Island on July 4 as part of the biennial U.S.-led RIMPAC multinational naval exercises.

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