THE NEW AEGIS SHORE SHIP WILL COST OVER 500 BILLION YEN FOR JAPAN TO BUILD

Highlights –

• The new Aegis Shore ship will cost over 500 billion yen for Japan to build.
• The new plan is more expensive than the scrapped land-based interception system.
• Japan plans to build two advanced Aegis destroyers.
• The latest estimate of the costs will be presented in a meeting of relevant panels of the LDP.

The Japanese government earlier this y....