The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force this week validated the missile defense capability of its upgraded destroyers by intercepting a ballistic missile target during a flight test, marking "a significant milestone" in U.S.-Japan cooperative missile defense efforts, according to the Missile Defense Agency. Just after 10:30 pm local time on Sept. 11, a ballistic missile target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands on Kauai, HI, as part of Japan Flight Test Mission-05 (JFTM-05), according to an MDA...
