Japan plans to purchase long-range missiles for the first time in the history, CNN reports, to handle its "increasingly severe" national security situation.
The government plans to equip its F-15 fighter jets with long-range anti-ship missiles as well as air-to-surface missiles, CNN says. New F-35 stealth fighter jets will gain joint strike missiles.
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