Aegis Ashore deployed Tohoku extended survey period March 9, 19:53 on the Ministry of Defense
Regarding the deployment of the new interceptor missile system `` Aegis Ashore '', the Ministry of Defense has received a terrible investigation and is conducting a re-investigation in the Tohoku region, due to bad weather, delaying the investigation period until late next month We have decided to extend it for more than a month.
Following the deployment plan of the new interceptor missile system "Aegis Ashore", the government indicated the Ground Self-Defense Force's Shinya Exercise Area in Akita City as one of the candidate sites, but after a sloppy investigation, it included this exercise site We are conducting a resurvey on 20 state-owned lands in Tohoku.
During the survey, the Ministry of Defense stated that a survey using an aircraft to determine the terrain of the candidate site was delayed due to bad weather. The policy has been extended to end late next month.
Regarding the candidate sites for deployment, the Ministry of Defense has decided that `` consider the distance from residential areas etc. as an important factor and consider it on a zero basis, including the new building exercise ground '', and make a final decision based on the results of the re-survey I'm going to