Japan’s New Destroyer vs. The US Navy: A Comparison

Описание: Japan is building a 620-foot missile-defense warship in the same Nagasaki shipyard that built the battleship Musashi. It will carry 128 missile cells, American SM-3 and SM-6 interceptors, and later Tomahawks. Officially it's just an "Aegis System Equipped Vessel." Here is why it exists, why it's so big, and why it matters to the U.S. Navy.

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Chapters
0:00 Japan's new missile ship
1:18 August 2017: a missile over Hokkaido
2:09 Aegis Ashore: the shield on land
2:37 How the plan fell apart
3:15 Cancelled, and sent back to sea
3:37 October 2022: another missile over Japan
4:04 The 20,000-ton first design
4:23 Bigger than a Burke
4:54 Why so big?
5:15 Fewer sailors, a bigger bill
5:44 SPY-6 vs SPY-7
6:15 Radar, 128 cells and the missiles
7:27 The Kauai test: one ship sees, another shoots
8:10 One ship vs three threats
8:29 Why Americans should care
9:16 America is running out of cruisers
9:43 The Musashi secret
10:21 The same shipyard today

Some shots are AI-generated illustrations and are labeled "ILLUSTRATION" on screen. File footage of U.S. ships is labeled "FILE".

Sources
Naval News, "Japan lays keel of both ASEV Missile Defense Ships" (27 March 2026)
Japan Ministry of Defense, Defense of Japan 2024 and ASEV concept images
U.S. Missile Defense Agency, JFTM-07 flight test (November 2022)

Footage and photos
U.S. Department of Defense / DVIDS (public domain): Missile Defense Agency (JFTM-07, FTM-22, FEM-02, LRDR), U.S. Navy (USS Ronald Reagan, USS Gerald R. Ford, USS Truxtun, USS Thomas Hudner, USS Milius, USS Rafael Peralta, USS Spruance, USS Delbert D. Black, USS Porter, USS Mustin, USS Fitzgerald, USS Chancellorsville / Robert Smalls, JS Chokai, Aegis Ashore, "Life on a Destroyer - Heavy Seas", JMSDF at RIMPAC 2026)
Japan Ministry of Defense / JMSDF, CC BY 4.0: ASEV concept images, JS Maya, JS Chokai, JS Atago, JS Haguro, JS Shiranui, Taro Kono
U.S. Navy, "USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group Joins JMSDF During Keen Sword 21", CC BY 3.0
Wikimedia Commons: Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard by Jakub Hałun (CC BY 4.0), Hokkaido coast by aachiii (CC BY 4.0), MHI crane by Houjyou-Minori (CC0), J-Alert message by ferbass (public domain), U.S. Navy and U.S. Army photos (public domain), Musashi archival photos (public domain)
Relief map: Natural Earth (public domain)

Sound
Work With Sounds (CC BY 4.0): Saab Draken pass by Torsten Nilsson, coal crane by Konrad Gutkowski, torch cutting machine by Technical Museum of Slovenia
Search radar sound: Japan Ministry of Defense (CC BY 4.0)
Sonic boom by AirMan (CC BY 3.0)
Other sounds: public domain / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)

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