Japan to Acquire 400 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles
Japan has revealed that it wants to acquire 400 Tomahawk cruise. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, "We plan to acquire 400 missiles"
Kishida News
Weapon / Missile
Bilateral Relations
Regional / Strategy
North Korean Missile Tests Force ROK and Japan to get Closer
North Korea’s military tests force two rival countries, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, to get closer.
Air
Country
Japan Approves Allocating $445 Million for Four F-35Bs
Japan’s defence spending of 5.4 trillion yen renewed the record for eight consecutive years, while Tokyo will allocate $445 million to buy four F-35B fighters.
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
