Japan to boost ASM-3 AShM’s range to 400km

Japan has decided that its ASM-3 air-launch supersonic anti-ship missile would require a range boost to 400km in order to give it a standoff capability.

JASDF F-2 carries XASM-3 at Gifu air base 2017
Z3144228 [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons


The Yomiuri Shimbun says the fuel load of the Mach 3 capable missile will be increase.

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