That would make it the most expensive maritime equipment ever purchased by the Self-Defense Forces as an Aegis destroyer comes in at about 170 billion yen. There are three options for installing ...

The Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki briefly entered Chinese territorial waters for approximately ... Kongo-class destroyers ...

One benefit of deploying such a vessel is that fewer crew members would be needed compared with the number aboard an Aegis destroyer. The Defense Ministry had planned to set up the Aegis system at ...