The U.S. Department of Council approves to sell more than 600 million yuan of air defe

(Washington Composite Electric) The US State Department approves to sell "standard-6" air defense missiles and related equipment to Japan, allowing Japan to improve its missile defense capabilities.

The US Department of Defense issued a statement on Thursday (October 20) that the Japanese government asked the United States to sell up to 32 "Standard Missile 6" (SM-6) air defense missiles, as well as other equipment and services.The U.S. State Department has approved this potential transaction and is currently waiting for Congress for approval.The transaction is estimated to be US $ 450 million (about S $ 642 million).

The U.S. Department of Defense said that the proposed military sales plan "will improve Japan's air defense and ballistic missile defense capabilities in order to fight potential enemies in the zone., Further enhance the military and Japanese military interconnection. "

SM-6 air defense missiles are developed by the US military giant Raytheon. They are a three-purpose missile. They are the only weapons that can perform air defense combat, ballistic missile defense, anti-water surface combat missions. The maximum range is 240 kilometers.Intercept various fixed wings and rotating wings, drones and anti -ship cruise missiles within a height of 30,000 meters.

Vice -State of the United States and Vice Foreign Minister of Japan and South Korea will hold a three -party meeting

In addition, the US State Department issued a statement on Thursday that the US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman visited Tokyo from October 24th to 26th to hold a three -party meeting with Moriko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan and Zhao Xiandong, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea.Sherman will also hold bilateral talks with the Vice Foreign Minister of Japan and South Korea.

North Korea has recently conducted missile testing at unprecedented speeds, and the United States, Japan and South Korea have expressed serious concern about Pyongyang's provocations.

A senior official of the State Department of the United States said: "We will discuss a series of topics, including North Korea’ s launch of ballistic missiles, Chinese issues many times this year, and Russia to launch a war of destruction of Ukraine.The topic, and Taiwan accounts for a large part. "

This is the fourth time that the Second Person of the State Department has visited the India -Pacific region since May this May.The statement said that the trip to Shelman showed the United States' continued commitment to Indo -Pacific and its Asian allies Japan and South Korea.