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日本、米国とのジョイント・ミサイル・システムに、費用の3分の1を出資予定(Spacewar)
軍事情報専門の新聞であるSpacewarは、12月16日付の記事で、日本が米国と共同で開発するジョイント・ミサイル・システムに、その費用の3分の1(10億〜12億ドル:およそ1160億〜1390億円)を負担する予定であることを伝えています。ただ、まだ正式決定ではないようです。
この新聞によると、読売新聞が水曜日に「日本の負担分は心配していたよりも安く済みそうだ」と報道したということです。米国は折半を要求していました。システムの構築は2006年からスタートし、米国Defense Agencyは手始めに30億円の経費支払いを日本に要求しています。
このミサイル防衛システム開発計画は1998年の北朝鮮ミサイル(?)実験がきっかけで進められたものです。(キムさんもなかなか役者のようだ。)
以下にこの記事を貼り付けておきます。日本語の情報があればレスをお願いします。
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http://www.spacewar.com/news/abm-05zzk.html
Japan Expects To Pay One Third Of Joint Missile System With US
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 15, 2005
Japan expects to shoulder 1.0-1.2 billion dollars, or about one-third of the cost of developing a missile system with the United States, the Defense Agency said Thursday, after reports Tokyo faced a greater burden.
The close allies have been jointly conducting research into the missile defense system amid growing concern about North Korea and rising tension between Japan and China.
"The Japanese government estimates the cost would be about 1.0-1.2 billion dollars for the development program," a Defense Agency spokeswoman said.
She said the agency has requested a budget allocation of 3 billion yen (25.56 million dollars) for fiscal 2006 to start building the missile system.
But she said Japan has not yet made the final decision to start development of the system.
The two nations plan to move on from the research they began in 1999 to the development stage sometime from March, Kyodo News reported.
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursday that Japan's share would be much less than feared. The newspaper has previously reported that the United States wanted to split costs evenly with Tokyo.
Japan's defense spending has been curtailed for three straight years up to March 2006 as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi advocated an austere budget.
Washington's initial estimate saw the United States shouldering 545 million dollars until the fiscal year to March 2012 with work on the project starting in fiscal 2006, the Yomiuri has previously reported.
But the amount nearly tripled after Washington extended the period for development to 2014 and recalculated the amount based on previous weaponry projects, the mass-circulation daily said.
Japan has been in a hurry to build a missile defense system with the United States since North Korea stunned the world in 1998 by firing a missile over the Japanese mainland into the Pacific.
Source: Agence France-Presse