Japan deployed a Patriot missile launcher in downtown Tokyo
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Japan’s Self Defense Forces deployed a Patriot missile launcher in downtown Tokyo over the weekend, as North Korea reportedly gears up for a missile launch. The launcher, deployed among a maze of high-rise office buildings and parked outside the Ministry of Defense headquarters, will function as a last-ditch defense should a missile head towards Japan’s capital. The announcement […]
Japan unveiled its first homemade stealth plane ATD-X Shinshin
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The first domestically-made stealth aircraft ATD-X Shinshin X-2, sits in a hangar at Nagoya Airport in Toyoyama town, central Japan, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. The demonstration plane is expected to make its maiden flight sometime after mid-February. The experimental X-2 is expected to make its maiden test flight in February. Defense officials said the aircraft […]
Hawk Missile’s warhead fell on Japanese Road off launching truck
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During transport missile system near Tokyo was the destruction of one of the anti-aircraft missiles from Raytheon US production from the complex MIM-23 Hawk medium-range surface-to-air missile. Development of the Hawk missile system began in 1952, when the United States Army began studies into a medium range semi-active radar homing surface-to-air missile. The missile was […]
F-22 fighter aircraft and a KC-10 aerial refueling tanker arrive in Japan
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The eight F-22 fighter aircrafts and a KC-10 aerial refueling tanker of United States Air Force arrive at Kadena Air Base to Japan. The F-22 Raptor is the most advanced aircraft in the USAF arsenal, with its design, control and thrust-to-weight ratio ensuring it can outmaneuver any aircraft currently in operation around the world. It is capable of […]
Japan might be interested in RAM Block 2
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In a notice for awarding a $66 million contract to Raytheon for Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 guided missiles, the Pentagon said the contract includes an option for foreign military sales to Japan. Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $66,593,457 firm-fixed-price contract on Dec. 31, 2015, for fiscal 2016 Navy Rolling Airframe […]
JSDF’s MRAP ‘Bushmaster’ first publish in Japan
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Japan Self-Defence Force publish MRAP(Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) ‘Bushmaster’ during an evacuation drill for overseas Japanese at Somagahara Training Area, in Gunma Prefecture, Japan on December 17, 2015. Usually ‘Bushmaster’ operate by JGSDF Central Readiness Regiment in Japan. 4 vehicles ordered in April 2014. The Japanese Ministry of Defence has ordered four Bushmaster 4×4 armoured vehicles […]
Japanese Tank Division Exercises with Type 90 tanks
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Japan continues to improve its military capability, amid tension with China. Some time ago the Japanese found the Chinese ship trying to break into Sinkaku disputed islands also claimed by China. After the previous joint exercises, now Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) exercises mobilized armored divisions with Type 90 tanks, to perform simulations of war […]
Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract for a E-2D Aircraft for Japan
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Military Aircraft Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is being awarded a $285,975,244 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive (firm target) contract (N00019-13-C-9999) for non-recurring engineering and recurring efforts to support the production and delivery of one E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for the government of Japan under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work will […]
Russian A-50E AWACS and Tu-95 strategic bombers monitored by Japanese Air Force
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Japanese Defense Ministry staff supervision integration unit Dec. 21 announcement that the Russian Air Force Tu-95 strategic bombers two and one A-50E AWACS new day appeared in the airspace surrounding Japan, including two Tu-95 bombers surround the Japanese archipelago Flying week. In order to prevent the Russian military machine to enter Japanese airspace, the Japanese […]
Airbus Helicopters completes delivery of final two H135s to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
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Airbus Helicopters has successfully handed over the 14th and 15th H135 training helicopters to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). This marks the delivery completion of 15 H135s over the last six years. Designated as TH-135 by JMSDF, the 13 units delivered prior have been in operation since 2011. The TH-135 is a variant of […]