TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Japan and the US will agree this week to collectively develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads being developed by China, Russia and North Korea, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper stated on Sunday.
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The settlement on interceptors to focus on weapons designed to evade current ballistic missile defenses is predicted when US President Joe Biden meets Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida within the US on Friday, the report stated, with out giving any supply for the knowledge, Reuters reported.
Officials at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs couldn’t be reached for remark outdoors of enterprise hours.
Unlike typical ballistic warheads, which fly on predictable trajectories as they fall from area to their targets, hypersonic projectiles can change course, making them harder to focus on.
Biden and Kishida are to fulfill on the sidelines of a trilateral summit with South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, the Yomiuri stated.
The US and Japan agreed in January to contemplate growing the interceptor at a gathering of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin with their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada.
An settlement can be the second such collaboration in missile protection know-how.
Washington and Tokyo developed a longer-range missile designed to hit warheads in area, which Japan is deploying on warships within the sea between Japan and the Korean peninsula to protect in opposition to North Korean missile strikes.