{"id":17095,"date":"2024-01-25T21:21:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=17095"},"modified":"2024-01-25T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:21:59","slug":"400-bgm-109-tomahawk-long-range-land-attack-missiles-for-japan-at-a-total-cost-of-1-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=17095","title":{"rendered":"400 BGM-109 Tomahawk long-range land attack missiles for Japan at a total cost of $1.7 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Defense announced on January 18 that it signed a $1.7 billion contract to supply 400 BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2025 and be completed in 2027. Of the $1.7 billion cost, $1.13 billion is for the procurement of the missiles ($2.825 million per missile), while the remaining $570 million is for systems and materials, necessary for the integration of the missiles in the ships and their support. The missiles will equip the &#8220;Kongo&#8221;, &#8220;Atago&#8221;, &#8220;Maya&#8221; and ASEV class ships. Of the 400 missiles, 200 will be of the Block.IV version, with a maximum range of 1,600 kilometers, and 200 will be of the Block.V version, with a maximum range of about 1,650-1,700 kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Defense announced on January 18 that it signed a $1.7 billion contract to supply 400 BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles. Deliveries are expected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[3935,252,2807,215,70],"class_list":["post-17095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-bgm-109-tomahawk","tag-japan","tag-missile","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17097,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095\/revisions\/17097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}