Tokyo -
War-test maneuvers in the Atlantic. The Japanese navy has successfully intercepted one fired from a US-based medium-range missile and destroyed. It was already the third such test.
The reason for the military gimmick: Japan has invested in a missile defense system after North Korea had fired in 1998 in a test a long-range missile over northern Japan of time.
Now, U.S. forces fired off a test missile from a base on the islands belonging to Hawaiian island of Kauai.
The Japanese destroyer Myoko, "acknowledging the bullet and fired an SM-3 interceptor. 160 km above the Pacific Ocean triggered the test warhead of the rocket.
The SM-3 recognized the warhead and hit him. When the maneuver took place remained secret.
