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03-20-2007, 01:15 PM
03/19/2007
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
State-of-the-art Patriot missiles will be deployed to protect key facilities in central Tokyo, such as the Diet Building and the Prime Minister's Official Residence, under a Defense Ministry plan for emergency situations, according to sources.
The missiles can protect areas within a radius of 20 kilometers from the launch sites. To accomplish their new mission, the missiles will be transported to Self-Defense Forces garrisons in Nerima and Ichigaya in Tokyo from the Air SDF Iruma base in southern Saitama Prefecture, the sources said.
Read more here... (http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200703190072.html )
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
State-of-the-art Patriot missiles will be deployed to protect key facilities in central Tokyo, such as the Diet Building and the Prime Minister's Official Residence, under a Defense Ministry plan for emergency situations, according to sources.
The missiles can protect areas within a radius of 20 kilometers from the launch sites. To accomplish their new mission, the missiles will be transported to Self-Defense Forces garrisons in Nerima and Ichigaya in Tokyo from the Air SDF Iruma base in southern Saitama Prefecture, the sources said.
Read more here... (http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200703190072.html )