My translation: It was learned on Jan 2 that US military communicated to Japan's self-defense forces that the former intends to deploy in 2019 land-based anti-missiles in Okinawa Prefecture, and that due to this practice prior to that (deployment). * * * [US] aims to practice with self-defense forces. * * * Deployment of the anti-ship missiles is a countermeasure to foil China's A2/AD (anti-access/area denial) on US military in a contingency. US to deploy HIMARS, which is a platform loaded with ATACMS tactical missiles, with range of 300km and capable of attacking ships and land. HIMARS has the hallmark of light and high mobility, amenable to movement by a transport airplane. [The personnel] will be from I Corps [pronounced eye or first corps] based in Washington State [US had "II Corps"]. "Island-chain defense must have a new policy and I direct the American land force strengthen ability to sink ships." "We are willing to learn from self-defense forces." So said in a May 2017 speech Harris now the US ambassador to S korea and then PACOM commander. To bolster 南西防衛, ground self-defense force plans to install Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile in 沖縄本島 and 宮古、石垣両島, etc. Harris speech appeared to modeled after ground self-defense force’s plan. * * * America's ATACMS has a range of 300km, exceeding Type 12's 200km of ground self-defense force. 宮古海峡 between 沖縄本島 and Miyako island 宮古島 is 300km wide, covered entirely by one ATACMS.
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(b) Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile 12式地対艦誘導弾 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_12_Surface-to-Ship_Missile
(table: Operational range 200 km (124 mi). Guidance system Inertial guidance, GPS and terminal Ka band AESA radar homing)
Japanese-English dictionary:
* yudōdan 誘導弾 【ゆうどうだん】 (n): "guided missile"
^ yudō 誘導 【ゆうどう】 (n,v): "guidance; leading <水先案内人は船を港に誘導する。 A pilot guides the ship toward the port>"
I check and it seems that in Japan 誘導 means leading or guiding, as in directing traffic by a civilian or a police officer alike. There is no definition of temptation in Japan. 作者: choi 时间: 1-3-2019 14:28
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(a) M142 HIMARS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M142_HIMARS
(High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS); "The HIMARS carries six rockets or one MGM-140 ATACMS missile on the US Army's new Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) five-ton truck"/ table: Manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Operational range 480 km (298 mi), Accuracy Guided)
(b) MGM-140 ATACMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-140_ATACMS
(Army Tactical Missile System (ATacMS); table: Maximum firing range 190 mi (300 km), Manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Launch platform M270 or HIMARS)
(c) 1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19 ... _designation_system
MGM stands for (M) Mobile (G) Surface-attack (M) Guided missile.
" 'Before I leave PACOM, I'd like to see the Army’s land forces conduct exercises to sink a ship in a complex environment where our joint and combined forces are operating in other domains,' [Admiral Harry] Harris said during the West 2017 conference on Tuesday. * * * Harris then called for his Navy and Army forces commanders – Pacific Fleet commander Adm Scott Swift and US Army Pacific commander Gen Bob Brown – to work out how to tie the Army's land-based missile defense network into the Navy’s Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air architecture. NIFC-CA – based around the US carrier strike group – creates a network of sensors and shooters to allow ships or aircraft to pass targeting information between several different weapon systems and platforms.
"While Harris was enthusiastic about inter-service battle networks merging, he stopped short of calling for a NIFC-CA level of connection with Japanese and South Korean forces. Both countries field – or are set to field – Aegis combat system-equipped ships and aircraft capable of bolting on to the U.S. Navy’s NIFC-CA construct and expanding its reach. When asked by USNI News, Harris declined to say if he wants to link the capabilities of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the South Korean military directly to the US NIFC-CA network.
(b) Gidget Fuentes, Marines Fire HIMARS From Ship in Sea Control Experiment With Navy. USNI News, Oct 24, 2017 https://news.usni.org/2017/10/24 ... rol-experiment-navy
("A detachment of Marines with Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based 5th Battalion, 11th Marines, set up the vehicle-borne launch system on the flight deck of amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23). * * * Target destroyed, officials said")
However, what the target was, and where (on the sea or ashore) was not explained.
(c) In the July 12, 2018 Sinking Exercise (SINKEX), US Army participated in RIMPAC for the first time and fired HIMARS from the shore of Kauai, Hawaii, allegedly hitting the target -- a stationary, decommissioned USS Racine, 55 nautical miles away. Other participants were US Navy and Japan's self-defense forces.
Note: To use ATACMS or HIMARS against ships, US Army has modified these missiles since 2016. Still, (4)(c) appears to be the only one successful report so far for HIMARS, although www.thedrive.com cast doubt on July 26, 2018, because "all the HIMARS rounds were Reduced Range Practice Rounds, known as RRPR rounds" whose manufacturer Lockheed Martin in its website said has a maximal range of 15km. (There has been no news report of testing ATACMS in anti-ship exercise.) In any event, the American stories are just like China boasting of DF-21 as a killer of an aircraft carrier, despite the fact that a target ship is usually moving, if not zigzagging.