Japan poised to send Patriot missiles owned by its Self-Defense Forces to US | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
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The Japanese government is set to provide the United States with the Patriot interceptor missiles owned by Japan's Self-Defense Forces.
  • filoria
    71·
    11 months ago

    Does the US not have enough of their own Patriot missiles?

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      11 months ago

      Stop, think for a second and ask yourself what America would do with these missiles given the current situation in eastern Europe.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    So Japan is sending US missiles it manufactures under license to the US.

  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    The Japanese government is set to provide the United States with the Patriot interceptor missiles owned by Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.

    The government last Friday revised its guidelines on defense equipment transfers. This made it possible for Japan to export equipment manufactured domestically under license from a foreign firm to a country where the licenser is based.

    The systems that Tokyo has decided to send to the US under the revised rules are PAC-2 units, which are used to mainly intercept aircraft and cruise missiles, as well as PAC-3 units, which intercept ballistic missiles.

    Japan’s Defense Ministry said the decision was made at the request of the US, whose stockpiles of interceptor missiles have dwindled as it sent military aid to Ukraine.

    Tokyo plans to send the PAC-2 units currently owned by the nation’s Self-Defense Forces to the US, because officials say it would take several years for Japanese makers to produce new ones from scratch and export them.

    Defense Ministry officials said they will further discuss details of the plan with their US counterparts next year.

    The officials added that Japan’s own stockpiles of Patriot missiles are insufficient.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    712·
    11 months ago

    The fact that US has to run around the world and pull weapons from their vassals really highlights how US military industrial complex simply can’t keep up with the proxy war US got itself into.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        39·
        11 months ago

        Do enlighten us why you find it so shocking for Russia to buy shells from one of a handful countries in the world that’s technologically advanced enough to develop nuclear weapons? Last I checked, DPRK weapons were good enough to kill the yanks.