The Japanese missile can evade defenses by traveling at more than five times the speed of sound and maneuvering within the ...

Japan has long-standing territorial disputes with both China and Russia, leading to multiple standoffs over islands.

TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the ...

While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...

Japan’s ministry of defense has announced that it conducted a live firing test of a new hypervelocity glide munition to ...

Learn about the $900 million SM-6 Block I Missile FMS request made by Japan and the State Department's approval of it.

The State Department last Friday okayed a potential $900 million foreign military sale (FMS) to Japan of up to 150 Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) Block I ...

The Chinese military has frequently dispatched air and naval forces around Japan's islands, which form part of a blockade ...

Japan Gets Nod For Second Batch Of SM-6 Blk. I Missiles is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your ...

The plan, as disclosed by Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, comes amid Chinese pressure to remove a powerful U.S. weapons ...