{"id":945,"date":"2025-09-04T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:30:32","slug":"japan-to-field-new-missile-systems-earlier-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/japan-to-field-new-missile-systems-earlier-than-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to field new missile systems earlier than planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"File photo by Japan Ground Self Defense Force\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8522590.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Ministry of Defense announced that deployment of the upgraded Type 12 surface-to-ship missile will be accelerated, with the first ground-based units to be stationed in Kumamoto before the end of this fiscal year. The Ministry said on August 29 that both ship- and aircraft-launched variants of the improved Type 12 will now enter service [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/japan-to-field-new-missile-systems-earlier-than-planned\/\">Japan to field new missile systems earlier than planned<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\">Defence Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Ministry of Defense announced that deployment of the upgraded Type 12 surface-to-ship missile will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}