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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated December 10, 2018 shows a Standard Missile (SM) 3 Block IIA is launched from the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Army photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Photo taken on March 28, 2024, shows a launch pad for land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles on the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer anchored at its naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo. Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. destroyer is shown to the media the same day, with Japan planning to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Photo taken on March 28, 2024, shows a launch pad for land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles on the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer anchored at its naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo. Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. destroyer is shown to the media the same day, with Japan planning to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel meets the press at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base near Tokyo on March 28, 2024, after training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer is shown to the media, with Japan planning to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer is shown to the media at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo on March 28, 2024, as Japan plans to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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Japan's MSDF conducts Tomahawk training ahead of delivery

Training by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel aboard the U.S. Navy's McCampbell destroyer is shown to the media at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka near Tokyo on March 28, 2024, as Japan plans to buy 400 land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States for their deployment on the MSDF Aegis destroyers in fiscal 2025.

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International forum on space dialogue underway in Dakar

STORY: International forum on space dialogue underway in Dakar DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: Dakar CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of International Forum on Space Dialogue STORYLINE: The first edition of the International Forum on Space Dialogue opened Tuesday in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, under the aegis of the African Union and the European Union. "As a fundamental pillar of human development, the space sector presents new economic, scientific, technological and military challenges," Senegalese Prime Minister Amadou Ba said at the opening ceremony. "The African space industry is valued at more than 20 billion U.S. dollars and employs more than 18,000 people," said Tidiane Ouattara, representative of the commissioner responsible for education, science, technology and innovation of the African Union Commission. Ouattara said African states launched 45 satellites this year, a number which, according to him, will reach 165 by 2027. The three-day forum will s

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SDF officers' homes, workplaces raided over defense data leak

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators leave an official apartment house of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 28 after searching the home of a 34-year-old MSDF lieutenant commander over a leak of classified materials on high-tech Aegis vessels.

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Chinese navy participates in RIMPAC for 1st time

HONOLULU, United States - Zhao Xiaogang (C), drill director of the Chinese navy fleet, takes questions from the press at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on June 30, 2014, during RIMPAC 2014, a multinational maritime exercise that takes place in and around the Hawaiian Islands. It is the first time for China to participate in the exercise held every two years. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Rear Adm. Yasuki Nakahata (far R) also attends the press conference. Japan's Aegis-equipped destroyer Kirishima is seen in the back.

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Japan, U.S. drill involving recapture of island

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows the deck of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atago, a destroyer equipped with the Aegis missile interceptor system, at a U.S. Navy base in San Diego, California, on June 10, 2013. The vessel, in California to take part in a drill designed to practice recapturing control of remote islands, was shown to reporters.

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Japan, U.S. drill involving recapture of island

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atago, a destroyer equipped with the Aegis missile interceptor system, off a U.S. Navy base in San Diego, California, on June 10, 2013. The vessel was in California to take part in a drill designed to practice recapturing control of remote islands.

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Destroyer-boat collision case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the stern of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru (front), after a collision with the Aegis destroyer Atago (back) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Pacific just outside Tokyo Bay in February 2008. Seen in the middle is a patrol boat of the Japan Coast Guard. The Tokyo High Court upheld on June 11, 2013, a lower court acquittal of two MSDF sailors over the collision that killed two fishermen.

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Aegis warship

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2011 shows the Fitzgerald, a U.S. destroyer equipped with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, at Otaru port in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The United States moved the Fitzgerald on April 1, 2013, to waters near the Korean Peninsula in response to the increasingly threatening rhetoric exhibited by North Korea.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Myoko (front) and the Kongo, Aegis destroyers carrying SM-3 missile interceptors, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Chokai, an Aegis destroyer carrying an SM-3 missile interceptor, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Myoko (front) and the Kongo, Aegis destroyers carrying SM-3 missile interceptors, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Myoko (front) and the Kongo, Aegis destroyers carrying SM-3 missile interceptors, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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PAC-3 interceptor in Okinawa

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A Self-Defense Force member moves near a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture at 7:42 a.m. on April 13, 2012, shortly after North Korea fired a rocket at 7:38 a.m. To brace for the possibility of rocket debris falling on Japanese territory, the Defense Ministry had deployed ground-based interceptors in Okinawa and in Tokyo. It also dispatched three Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors to nearby waters.

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PAC-3 interceptors in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors remain on standby at the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo at 11:18 a.m. on April 13, 2012, even though the North Korean rocket launch earlier in the morning ended in failure. To brace for the possibility of rocket debris falling on Japanese territory, the ministry had deployed ground-based interceptors in Okinawa and in Tokyo. It also dispatched three Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors to nearby waters.

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Japan prepares for N. Korean rocket

SASEBO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Chokai leaving Sasebo port in Nagasaki Prefecture on April 7, 2012, as part of Japan's preparations for North Korea's planned rocket launch.

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Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor is unloaded from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport ship Osumi at Hirara port on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3, 2012. Japan is deploying the PAC-3 interceptors mainly in Okinawa Prefecture and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying the sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea to act as a missile shield against a rocket North Korea is planning to launch later in April or its debris.

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Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor is unloaded from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport ship Osumi at Hirara port on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3, 2012. Japan is deploying the PAC-3 interceptors mainly in Okinawa Prefecture and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying the sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea to act as a missile shield against a rocket North Korea is planning to launch later in April or its debris.

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Destroyer Kirishima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis ship Kirishima off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 31, 2012. The ship left the Yokosuka base that morning for the East China Sea ahead of a planned rocket launch by North Korea.

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Destroyer Kirishima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis ship Kirishima off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 31, 2012. The ship left the Yokosuka base that morning for the East China Sea ahead of a planned rocket launch by North Korea.

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U.S. destroyer in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - The Fitzgerald, a U.S. destroyer equipped with the most advanced Aegis missile guidance system, calls at Otaru port in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 4, 2011. The U.S. Navy said the call was for friendship and exchanges.

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Chinese defense chief on board high-tech Japanese Aegis vessel

SASEBO, Japan - China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (L) is greeted by crew members of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Chokai in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2009, before he boards the vessel equipped with the Aegis combat system.

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Chinese defense chief on board high-tech Japanese Aegis vessel

SASEBO, Japan - China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (L) is greeted by a senior official of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force as he visits Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2009, to board the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Chokai.

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Japan destroyer test-fires missile at review

TOKYO, Japan - The Aegis destroyer Kongou of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force sails during a fleet review in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 25, 2009.

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U.S. Aegis destroyer at Yokohama passenger terminal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The U.S. Aegis destroyer John S. McCain (top) makes a rare port call by a U.S. military ship at an international passenger terminal in Yokohama on July 21.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - The Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyer Kongou leaves its base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if it falls into Japanese territory.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken March 28 shows a system to launch missile interceptors on the Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyer Choukai, which left its base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if the rocket falls into Japanese territory.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - The Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyer Choukai leaves its base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if it falls into Japanese territory.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyers, the Choukai (front) and the Kongou (in back) leave their base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if it falls into Japanese territory.

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Japan orders N. Korean rocket destruction

SASEBO, Japan - The Aegis destroyers of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Kongou (L) and the Choukai, dock at the MSDF base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on March 27. The destroyers are equipped with the launcher of the Standard Missile-3 which can intercept a ballistic missile in space.

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Destroyer primary cause of collision with boat: tribunal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the bow (in front) of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru drifting in the Pacific off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19, 2008, after it split in two following the collision with Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago equipped with the high-tech Aegis defense system. The two crewmembers on the fishing boat went missing. The Yokohama Marine Accident Tribunal on Jan. 22 determined that the destroyer was the main cause of the collision.

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Inquiry for Aegis destroyer's collision with fishing boat starts

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Ken Funato (R in front), former captain of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis destroyer Atago, attends the first session of the inquiry at the Yokohama Marine Accident Inquiry Agency over the destroyer's fatal collision with a small fishing boat, Seitoku Maru, off Chiba Prefecture in February. Two fishermen on the fishing boat were killed in the collision. (Pool photo)

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Inquiry for Aegis destroyer's collision with fishing boat starts

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Ken Funato, former captain of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis destroyer Atago, attends the first session of the inquiry at the Yokohama Marine Accident Inquiry Agency over the destroyer's fatal collision with a small fishing boat, Seitoku Maru, off Chiba Prefecture in February. Two fishermen on the fishing boat were killed in the collision.

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Coast Guard to reenact collision of Atago, fishing boat

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis destroyer Atago sails off Cape Nojimazaki, the southernmost tip of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, on April 16 as the Japan Coast Guard reenacts a collision between the Atago and the fishing boat Seitoku Maru on Feb. 19.

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Japan's latest Aegis-class destroyer delivered to MSDF

NAGASAKI, Japan - Members of the Maritime Self-Defense Force embark on Japan's latest Aegis-class destroyer Ashigara at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Nagasaki shipyard on March 13. The warship, built at a cost of 140 billion yen, was delivered to the MSDF in a ceremony at the Mitsubishi dockyard. The 7,750-ton Ashigara is Japan's sixth and largest Aegis-class destroyer.

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Japan's opposition camp demands Ishiba's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba replies to questions from Kiyomi Tsujimoto (back to camera) from the opposition Social Democratic Party at a meeting of the House of Representatives committee on security on Feb. 26. Opposition parties called for Ishiba's resignation in the wake of a delay by the Defense Ministry in announcing that an Aegis-equipped destroyer had spotted a fishing boat 12 minutes before the two vessels collided.

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Relatives of missing fishermen visit accident site

CHIBA, Japan - The families and relatives of two fishermen, who went missing after their boat collided with a Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-equipped destroyer, visit the accident site in the Pacific off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 23. Some 30 relatives of Haruo Kichisei, 58, and his 23-year-old son Tetsuhiro of the 7.3-ton Seitoku Maru visited the site.

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Defense chief Ishiba apologizes in missing fishermen's hometown

KATSUURA, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) bows in apology to Eitaro Geki (L), head of a local fisheries cooperative in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, at the cooperative's offices there on Feb. 21. Two fishermen -- a father and son -- aboard the 7.3-ton tuna fishing boat Seitoku Maru belonging to the cooperative went missing Feb. 19 after the boat collided with the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis-equipped destroyer Atago. (Pool photo)

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Suspicion raised over apparent inaction by destroyer before collision

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard officials prepare to go on board the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago berthed at the MSDF Yokosuka Base, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 21 for investigations into the Feb. 18 collision between the Aegis advanced defense system-equipped vessel and the fishing boat Seitoku Maru in the Pacific just off the coast of Chiba Prefecture.

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Fishing boat wreckage recovered

TOKYO, Japan - The two broken halves of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru are lifted onto a salvage barge in the Pacific off Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 20 a day after it collided with Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Atago, which is equipped with high-tech Aegis radar systems.

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Fishing boat wreckage recovered

TOKYO, Japan - The two broken halves of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru are lifted onto a salvage barge in the Pacific off Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 20 a day after it collided with Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Atago, which is equipped with high-tech Aegis radar systems.

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Aegis destroyer collides with small boat

KATSUURA, Japan - A fisherman (L) hands a jacket worn by missing fisherman Haruo Kichisei to one of Kichisei's relatives (R) after it was found at a marine accident site. Kichisei and his son remain missing after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer equipped with the advanced Aegis radar system collided with a small fishing boat they were working on in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19. The boat capsized.

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Aegis destroyer examined by marine accident inquiry officials

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Marine Accident Inquiry Agency officials examine the Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Atago alongside the quay at the MSDF's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Feb. 19 after the destroyer collided with a small fishing boat earlier in the day in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture. The boat capsized, leaving its two crew members missing.

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MSDF Aegis destroyer collides with fishing boat, 2 fishermen missing

KATSUURA, Japan - Women pray for fishermen Haruo Kichisei and his son Tetsuhiro, who went missing after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer with the advanced Aegis radar system collided with the small fishing boat they were working on Feb. 19 in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture. The boat capsized.

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Japan destroyer collides with fishing boat, 2 fishermen missing

TOKYO, Japan - The stern of the 15-meter long fishing boat Seitoku Maru drifts in the Pacific off Nojimazaki Cape in Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19 after it split in two following the collision with Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago equipped with the high-tech Aegis defense system. The two crewmembers on the fishing boat went missing.

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Japan destroyer collides with fishing boat, 2 fishermen missing

TOKYO, Japan - The bow of the 15-meter long fishing boat Seitoku Maru drifts in the Pacific off Nojimazaki Cape in Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19 after it split in two following the collision with Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago equipped with the high-tech Aegis defense system. The two crewmembers on the fishing boat went missing.