Japan has entered the final stages of talks with the United Kingdom and Italy to jointly develop and build a next-generation fighter jet, marking a turning point as Japan looks beyond the US for defence cooperation.
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) will deploy eight unarmed MQ-9 Reaper UAVs to the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF)’s Kanoya Air Base in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu from late October, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Tokyo has announced.
Japan continues to submarine building. The third Taigei Class submarine, Jingei (515), was launched with a ceremony held at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun says the Japan is considering having over 1,000 of its long-range cruise missiles under development.
The State Department approved a possible FMS to Japan of AIM-120C-7/8 AMRAAMs and related equipment for an estimated cost of $293 million.
Japan’s Ministry of Defence announced that a company had been selected to build the next-generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) that the JMSDF will operate.
MHIdelivered the lead ship of the Mogami-class multi-mission stealth frigates to Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) at MHI's Nagasaki shipyard.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) has commissioned its first new Mogami-class frigate.
Northrop Grumman announced that the company delivered the first of Japan’s three RQ-4B Global Hawks to Japan, Misawa Air Base, Misawa.
The Japan Air Self-Defence Force announced that it had undertaken its first joint exercise with the USAF, employing their respective F-35A fighters.
The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) sent a KC-767 transport aircraft carrying military equipment to Poland on Tuesday.
In a ceremony held on March 9 in Hyogo Prefecture, west-central Japan, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned the first of the new Taigei-class diesel-electric attack submarines (SSK).
Turkish drones have become a point of interest that most military experts would not assume until the war in Ukraine. They mainly flew Syria, Libya, and Armenia, where the air defence systems are weak. The war in Ukraine changed the perception because Russia has its own robust air defence systems. The S-400 hit the Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker but not TB2. While the flight of UAVs is a source of morale for Ukrainian civilians, Asia pays more and more interest to them. The CEO of Baykar Technologies, Haluk Bayraktar spoke about their system to Japanese Nikkei Asia Daily.
The UK and Japan have signed a Letter of Arrangement (LoA) to jointly conduct cooperative research on a world-leading fighter jet sensor-to-sensor technology.
