The new Type-12 SSM has ‘improved capability’ to be launched from both ground launchers and ships, and offers a stand-off defense capability to prevent and eliminate invading forces at an early stage ...

Deployment of the upgraded Type-12 SSM will fundamentally reinforce Japan’s stand-off defense ability to respond to attacks from outside the threat zone. Japan unveiled the photo of the prototype of ...

Japan will deploy the Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile and the Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile to bases in the north, central and southern regions between 2025 and 2027. Japan's Ministry of Defense ...

The image show a live-fire test of the upgraded Type 12 Surface-to-Ship missile conducted between October and November 2020 in California. The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) released on Dec. 19, ...

The upgraded Type 12 SSM will have a range of 1,000 km. The original version (pictured above) has a range of 200 km. While the original Type 12 SSM was designed as a land-based anti-ship missile, the ...

A Japanese Ministry of Defense image showing a test firing of the improved Type 12 missile. (Japanese Ministry of Defense) Japan will begin mass production of its enhanced Type 12 surface-to-ship ...

U.S. ally Japan has deployed surface-to-ship missile launchers on Okinawa Island to counter China's aggressive moves along the first island chain, Japanese media said. The Ministry of Defense and the ...