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1 Dead, 7 Missing After 2 JMSDF Helicopters Crash in the Pacific Ocean

Two Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) helicopters crashed late on April 20 during nighttime training near the Izu Islands, leaving one crew member dead...

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MHI Is Riding the Wave of Japan’s Boom in Defense Spending

Japan’s biggest defense company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has outlined plans for future growth through development investment in new major national defense projects, including...

US Air Force Will Relocate MQ-9 Reaper Squadron to Okinawa

AdvertisementThe Japanese Defense Ministry has announced that all eight U.S. MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), currently deployed at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force...

Japan Will Get Its Tomahawk Missiles a Year Early

AdvertisementOn October 4, Japan’s Defense Minister Kihara Minoru announced that Tokyo will acquire hundreds of U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles as early as fiscal year...

Japan’s Defense Ministry Requests Largest Ever Budget for Fiscal Year 2024

AdvertisementOn August 31, the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo asked for 7.74 trillion yen ($53 billion) for fiscal year 2024, its largest ever budget...

Japan at the Center of Airpower Defense Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

AdvertisementFrom August to October 2022, the German Air Force conducted its first large-scale deployment in the Indo-Pacific region, known as Rapid Pacific. This was...

GA-ASI’s Unmanned Aircraft Cross 8 Million Flight Hours

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 14, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) today announced that its family of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), which...

Here Are All The Most Interesting Military News From Paris Air Show 2023

We have attended the 54th International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. After four years the aircraft industry reunited again at Le Bourget, for the...

Japan Photographs China’s New Y-9DZ Electric Warfare Aircraft for First Time

AdvertisementOn June 8, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced it had for the first time identified a new type of Y-9 intelligence gathering...

Protector Training for First RAF Cohort Begins at GA-ASI’s FTTC

SAN DIEGO, CA, May 4, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - On May 1, 2023, the Royal Air Force (RAF) began training its first cohort of pilots, sensor operators,...

Japanese Defense Firms Unveil High-energy Laser Anti-drone Weapons

AdvertisementFor the first time, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) have unveiled in public the prototypes of their respective laser systems...

Japan Commissions Second Taigei-Class Diesel-Electric Attack Submarine

AdvertisementThe Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has commissioned the second of its Taigei-class diesel-electric attack submarines (SSK), which feature better underwater endurance than its...

DSEI Japan 2023: Japan to take delivery of OZZ-5 mine-countermeasures UUV

17 March 2023 by Jon Grevatt The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is expected to operate the OZZ-5...

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