China's People's Liberation Army recently labeled U.S. and Japanese destroyers as "enemy vessels" in a military display.

The Atago class Destroyers are the main surface warships of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. These destroyers are able to take on any role from anti-air defense to ground strike to anti ...

In late May, the Pentagon announced a $70 million contract to Lockheed Martin to upgrade the Aegis combat system on its two Atago-class destroyers to the so-called Baseline 9 standard that would ...

The People’s Liberation Army has explicitly identified the US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and Japan’s Atago-class destroyer as enemy targets in an information display for the navy’s open day.

In 2000 Japan’s defense agency maritime unit began building Atago-class destroyers with load displacement of more than 10,000 tons. The Japanese destroyer is equipped to handle the Aegis combat ...

And how does it match up against the region’s other destroyer heavyweights? In close-in defensive capability, the Type 055 possesses a slight edge over the Japanese Kongo and Atago-class ...

said the Chinese vessel was able to 'strike large and medium-sized enemy surface vessels such as the US Arleigh Burke-class and Japan's Atago-class destroyers.' The sign further claimed that the ...

The ships include one Arleigh-Burke class destroyer for the Navy, two Japanese Atago-class destroyers and three South Korean KDX-III destroyers. The ships for Japan and South Korea will be ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In close-in defensive capability, the Type 055 possesses a slight edge over the Japanese Kongo and Atago-class destroyers, as the Japanese destroyers only use ...

Japan is also planning to include a BMD capability in its new destroyer-class and upgrade its two Atago-class destroyers to include a BMD capability.