日本防卫厅(JDA)打算开始研制一种新型面空导弹(SAM),以替换日本陆上自卫队(JGSDF)目前使用的雷锡恩公司的霍克导弹。 研制新面空导弹的工作将始于1993财年。JDA计划在1990～1995年防御计划的最后3年为其拨款1000亿日元(7200万美元)。计划该导弹于1998和1999年进行作战试验,2000年开始投入生 Japan’s Defense Agency plans to start developing a new Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) that will replace Raytheon’s Hawker missiles currently used by Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). The development of a new surface-to-air missile will begin in fiscal year 1993. JDA plans to allocate 100 billion yen (72 million U.S. dollars) for the last three years of the 1990-1995 defense plan. It is planned that the missile will conduct combat tests in 1998 and 1999 and begin to work in 2000