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Defense ministry seeks Y730 mil for land-based Aegis missile system

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Sounds way too cheap.

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I bet couple of zeros are missing in this price tag.

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This is just for the plan! Surveying and designing deployment. As Peter K wrote, a couple of zeros need to be added to this number to get to the real figure.

Then they need to plan and design a system to authorise someone to fire it, without spending hours communicating with the defence ministry.

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Does this system even work? I mean under real life situation...not test.

Next missile that Kim fires towards Japan...lets see this thing in action.

Or...(as I suspect) it might not work and then we'd look pretty stupid wouldn't we.

If it hits on the button. Take all the money you need. It'd be money well spent imo.

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730 million, but tax, plus over budget costs, plus maintainace, plus upgrades, plus giving all our military information collected directly to USA, plus total replacement cost when outdated, plus 2 more systems for 2020, 8 more fore 2022, plus...

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You have to agree that Trump did a good job for the US military industrial complex there, going to be the same in SK ...

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Japan must undoubtedly be in the process of building the most robust and reliable missile defense system possible. Not doing so would be insane.

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