12 defects found Japanese missile prototype

[Taro Toporific]

Oh, whatta joke. This Pongi missile system has been disfunctional for years now, sheesh.
<--- Surface-to-Air Pongi!
12 defects found in MHI surface-to-ship missile prototype system
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 02:02 JST
TOKYO Kyodo- A total of 12 defects such as design problems were found during tests of a surface-to-ship prototype missile system developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd...

[jingai]

The weirdest thing about this article was the Google ads below it.

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Minuteman Missiles - http://www.NewspaperArchive.com

Why on earth is Lockheed advertising their missles using Google ads? Weird.

[SovietSupreme]

Perhaps Japan should use Soviet missile.

[kurohinge1]

... 12 defects found in MHI surface-to-ship missile prototype system
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 02:02 JST
TOKYO Kyodo- A total of 12 defects such as design problems were found during tests of a surface-to-ship prototype missile system developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd...

And the 12 minor defects, considered not worth reporting by Mitsubishi, are:

1 It doesn't fit the launcher provided
2 Batteries are not included
3 It only comes in one colour - Pikachu yellow
4 Due to a translation error (surface-to-shit not ship), the missiles home in on turds rather than tankers.
5 There is no after sales care
6 The cord for the remote only comes in a maximum length of 15 metres, so after that, the missile is on its own, unsurpervised.
7 It only takes leaded fuel
8 It stops running at midnight, until 6am.
9 The instructions are in North Korean, as it was too expensive to make in Japan
10 The instructions are still actually in North Korea, as it was too expensive to ship over both the missiles and the instructions.
11 The North Koreans still have the keys.
12 The North Koreans installed some sort of count-down timers on the stationary missiles and no one knows what they do.

[Taro Toporific]

And the 12 minor defects, considered not worth reporting by Mitsubishi, are:
4 Due to a translation error (surface-to-shit not ship), the missiles home in on turds rather than tankers...]

Damn you kurohinge! You're in league with Soviet Supreme uncovering my editing errors. But you missed one defect: The rotatable antenna array mast connectors on the SSM-1 system have failed for the past 7 years without any proper correction.