U.S. to Deploy X-Band Radar in Japan This Year

The United States this year plans to install a mobile X-band radar in Japan to detect potential ballistic missile attacks, the Kyodo News Service reported today (see GSN, Jan. 10).

“We hope to have it in Japan within the next six months,” a senior U.S. Missile Defense Agency official said yesterday. He said the system’s estimated cost is between $250 million and $300 million.

The radar is expected to be deployed at a Japanese air base in Tsugaru, according to Kyodo. The system is meant “not only for the defense of the United States but for the defense of Japan,” the official said (Kyodo News Service/Yahoo!News, Feb. 7).

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