US & Japanese Aegis Missile Defense Warships to Form Protective "Shield" Around Taiwan
A US-Japanese alliance is expanding an ability to counter Chinese ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles and nuclear missiles
KRIS OSBORN, WARRIOR MAVEN - CENTER FOR MILITARY MODERNIZATION8 HOURS AGO
By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military Modernization
A US-Japanese war preparation alliance is expanding an ability to track and counter Chinese ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles and even nuclear missiles with combined warship patrols armed with advanced Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) technology.
In a joint exercise called Resilient Shield 2024, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces merged BMD tactics with US Navy warships to refine targeting, networking, fire control and intercept technologies, a US Navy essay stated. Although the exercise took place in a simulated computer-based environment, it was intended to assess US-Japanese threat detection, targeting and networking synergies with a mind to expanding a BMD envelope for both countries. With technological advances, computer based simulations are increasingly capable of closely replicate key performance parameters of weapons systems, along with actual simulated “live-fire” kinds of scenarios, data networking and advanced targeting.
A US-Japanese BMD capability introduces extremely significant tactical dynamics as it could massively expand a missile-defense envelope throughout vulnerable parts of the Pacific theater. Both the US Navy and Japan operate Aegis-warships, as Japan is an Aegis partner. This is critical as it means both countries’ warships will operate with similar software, technological infrastructure, computing and an ability to share target-track information. The Aegis Combat System is an integrated suite of technologies engineered to use common computing standards, software, fire-control and highly-sensitive radar detection to locate, track and destroy incoming enemy ballistic missiles. The most recent upgrades to Aegis, such as Baseline 10 and software-driven "tech-insertions" enable a single system to perform both Ballistic Missile Defenses as well as Air-and-Cruise-Missile defense, meaning that anti-ship-missiles as well as ballistic missiles and even ICBMs can be tracked and intercepted.
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