China News Service, September 25. According to Kyodo News Agency on the 24th, the Japanese government still maintains the procurement contract with the United States after deciding to abandon the deployment of the land-based Aegis missile interception system to Akita and Yamaguchi. .

The three maritime application plans presented by the Ministry of Defense to the Liberal Democratic Party are all converted to a set of land-based Aegis equipment, which may give priority to avoiding the liquidated damages caused by the termination of the contract with the United States.

However, there are also concerns that the conversion fee transferred to the sea will increase the cost.

  According to reports, the Japanese government signed a contract with the US Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Lockheed in April last year as the procurement costs for the two main bodies of the land-based Aegis and the US Lockheed radar "SPY-7". A total of 175 billion yen (about 11.3 billion yuan) of contracts.

In June of this year, it was decided to stop the deployment of land-based Aegis, but the procurement contract was not cancelled, but continued to negotiate with the United States for alternatives.

  In view of this, MDA placed an order with Lockheed for a land-based Aegis conversion project of approximately 2 billion yen in late August.

During the consultations between the Japanese and US defense authorities related to this, the US explained that "this is the minimum equipment needed to support Japan in exploring new missile defense measures."

The Japanese side stated that "the basic performance of the radar is very high" and expressed its intention to maintain the procurement to the US side.

  The Ministry of Defense of Japan stated at a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party’s defense team on the 24th that a set of land-based Aegis equipment is "planned to be carried on offshore platforms" and that it has shown a frigate type including a special ballistic missile interceptor, a private ship type and similar Three types of offshore drilling platforms for oil exploration.

  However, since the cost of the conversion was not given, the former defense team put forward the opinion that "revisited from scratch".

A related person from Lockheed said in an interview that "the cost is not yet available at this stage."