{"id":6043,"date":"2023-04-11T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/japan-awards-mitsubishi-heavy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:18:30","slug":"japan-awards-mitsubishi-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/japan-awards-mitsubishi-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan awards Mitsubishi Heavy $2.8 billion missile contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211;     Japan has awarded its largest defence equipment maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries contracts worth 378 billion yen ($2.84 billion) to develop and build a new missile force aimed at deterring China from using military force in East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The four contracts include land, sea and air-launched missiles as well as a hypersonic ballistic warhead that it wants to begin deploying from 2026, Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Defense said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Russia&#8217;s attack on Ukraine and amid growing concern that China could launch an attack on neighbouring Taiwan, Japan in December unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two that will double defence spending over five years. <\/p>\n<p>The new missile force, which is expected to be capable of striking ships and land targets more than 1,000 km from Japan, is at the center of that plan.<\/p>\n<p>To bolster its defences before it can deploy those home-built missiles, Japan in February also said it will bulk order Raytheon Technologies Corp Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It has not yet said how many it will buy, but local media reports said it will be as many as 500.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 133.0800 yen)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Tim Kelly; Editing by Jan Harvey)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/japan-awards-mitsubishi-heavy\/illustration-shows-mitsubishi-heavy-industries-logo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A0A1-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A0A1-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Japan has awarded its largest defence equipment maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries contracts worth 378 billion yen ($2.84 billion) to develop and build a new missile force aimed at deterring China from using military force in East Asia. The four contracts include land, sea and air-launched missiles as well as a hypersonic ballistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A0A1-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}