The Front Line

摘要

A "Pull the plug" ceremony for Japan's latest high-tech missile defenses took place in an unlikely location in July: Moorestown, N.J. That's where Lockheed Martin completed testing and unplugged a $60 million-plus weapons system. It is destined for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War Ⅱ Zero fighter and still Japan's largest weapons producer.