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Japanese Destroyer Successfully Completed Tracking Exercise

November 16, 2007 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

Lieutenant General Trey Obering, head of the Missile Defense Agency, and Japanese Rear Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano announced on November 16 the successful completion of a tracking exercise of the Japanese Destroyer JS Kongo.  The Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai launched a target missile, which was tracked by the JS Kongo's 3.6 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.  The destroyer then simulated the launch of a Standard Missile-3 Block IA interceptor.  The JS Kongo is scheduled to conduct an actual intercept test in December. (Article)

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