United States and Japan agree to set up a plant in Japan to jointly build air-to-air missiles to counter China

The joint venture, named 'Operation Supercharge', will build a final assembly and inspection plant in Japan for the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile. Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced the deal after meeting US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in Cebu, Philippines. Koizumi warned that three Chinese destroyers and a coast guard vessel recently passed through the Osumi Strait in an unprecedented fleet formation.