Japan Aegis BMD (JFTM-1) Stellar Kiji Success, B-Roll

Japanese missile defense flight test post event video is provided. The test was conducted at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy.


Rear Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and Lt. General Henry "Trey" Obering III, Director of the United Stated Missile Defense Agency, announced today the successful completion of the cooperative Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) intercept flight test, off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii. The event, designated Japan Flight Test Mission 1 (JFTM-1), marked the first time that an Allied
Navy ship has successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target with the sea-based midcourse engagement capability provided by Aegis BMD.

The JFTM-1 test event verified the new engagement capability of the Aegis BMD configuration of the recently upgraded Japanese destroyer, JS KONGO (DDG-173). At approximately 12:05 pm (HST), 7:05 am Tokyo time on Dec. 18, 2007, a ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. JS KONGO crew members detected and tracked the target. The Aegis Weapon System then developed a fire control solution and at approximately 12:08 pm (HST), 7:08 am Tokyo time, a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IA was launched. Approximately 3 minutes later, the SM-3 successfully intercepted the target approximately 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. FTM-1 was the first time that a Japanese ship was designated to launch the interceptor missile, a major milestone in the growing cooperation
between Japan and the U.S. Previous participation had been limited to tracking and communications exercises.

Video couresty of Raytheon Missile Systems. Approved for public release 07-MDA-2983 & 07-NEWS-0053, 17 December 2007

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[Camilo19832001]

LONG LIVE JAPAN!!! screw china

[AgainstTheWorld07]

I'm glad I can say that I had a hand in it's performance. I made the optics that go into these things.

The contractor was nice enough to send me a thank you letter along with this video.

Japan is our closest and most powerfull allie we have right now and knowing that they can intercept anything that gets launched from NorthKorea, China or and other country...

Congrats on the successfull test guys!!!

[pakjai]

@YOSHINORI999 They overtook Japan's economy at the beginning of 2010 already. Your prediction is 5years too late.

[bestamerica]

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this japan missile rocket fly to where hit the place

[paintkiller93]

i like how japan and us are now close allies

[trejo2589yahoocom]

From what i've seen Japan rejects anything that has to do with Nuclear The USS George Washington CVN-73 Nuclear Submarines!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drgentlewolf]

YES, are perfectly right.

and ,It is not difficult for us to make and deploy nukes. U china have it. Why not we?

[drgentlewolf]

we (japan)have to deploy some nukes,not so many,about 100.

It dosen't work to protect japan by SM-3 without bullet.we need ,not enough.

[samuraixsamurai]

It is true that Japanese in general are v. proud of the nation, however we must (and we have) apologise for the pain and the agony that war has caused in the past. Having said that, history is written by the victor and I dont see USA apologizing for killing innocent civilians by use of atomic bomb. Has the west apologized to the people in africa for the slave labour and trade? No.

Atrocities are commited by many nations and should not be repeated again.

[037kondo]

do you mean a new nuclear bomb for the Japanese to use defensively, or a new nuclear bomb dropped on their land? Either way, that's a screwed up thing to say.