Japan Likely To Bolster Naval Missile Defense

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Paul Kallender-Umezu, Japan Likely To Bolster Naval Missile Defense. Defense News, July 11, 2015.
http://www.defensenews.com/story ... ina-aegis/29886975/

Note:
(a) The compound surname means his two parents have the respective surname of Kallender and Umezu 梅津.
(b) “Japan's Defense Minister Gen NAKATANI 中谷 元 "revealed during a question-and-answer session June 29 in the House of Representatives that Japan was now 'studying' adopting NIFC-CA to counter China's CJ-10 Long Sword [land-attack] cruise missile 长剑-10, which has become a major concern to Japan, particularly when launched from the Xian H-6 version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 bomber."

Tupolev Tu-16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-16
(a twin-engined jet; Introduction 1954, Retired 1993 (in former Soviet Union nations))
(c) "NIFC-CA [Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air] is based on the US Navy's cooperative engagement capability (CEC) network, which utilizes datalinks to transmit targeting information between the E-2D Hawkeye airborne warning and control aircraft and Navy Aegis-equipped ships carrying SM-6 missiles."

CEC: Cooperative Engagement for Fleet Defense. Defense Industry Daily, Oct 2, 2014
https://www.defenseindustrydaily ... ense-updated-03120/
("CEC is far more than a mere data-sharing program, or even a sensor fusion effort. The concept behind CEC is a sensor netting system that allows ships, aircraft, and even land radars to pool their radar and sensor information together, creating a very powerful and detailed picture that’s much finer, more wide-ranging, and more consistent than any one of them could generate on its own. The data is then shared among all ships and participating systems, using secure frequencies. It’s a simple premise, but a difficult technical feat. With huge implications")

(d) “Such a capability would be used by the two new Atago-class Aegis cruisers on order [with two already in commission, since 2007 and 2008, respectively]”
(i) Ultimately Atago is named after 愛宕山 (pronounced atago-yama or atago-san), which Japan has a hundred (of the same name), but the one in Kyoto is the most referenced one.
(ii) cruiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiser
(“Currently only three nations operate cruisers: the United States, Russia, and Peru * * * though the line between cruisers and destroyers is once again blurred. New models of destroyers (for instance the Zumwalt class) are often larger and more powerful than cruiser classes they replace”)