Air-Launched Weapons
MHI Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile
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East Asia and Pacific Region
Japan Deploys Advanced Type 12 Anti-ship Weaponry On Southwest Isle
To boost its defenses against China in its southwestern archipelago, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) announced on 26 March that it had deployed troops and its latest anti-ship missile type to Miyakojima Island. Miyakojima […]
Air Platform
Subaru to participate Japan’s sixth-generation F-X fighter jet programme
Japan’s Subaru Corporation is to set up a unit to develop technologies in support of the Japanese government’s project to develop and build a sixth-generation fighter aircraft. The group said in a recent statement that […]
Air Platform
Japan Wants to Build It’s Own Stealth Sixth-generation X-2/F-3 Fighter Jet
TOKYO – Japan wants to develop a stealth fighter domestically, rejecting designs from Lockheed Martin and Boeing in the United States and Britain’s BAE Systems, sources with knowledge of the programme told Reuters. The Japanese Ministry […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
Japanese F-2 escorted Tu-95 out of Japanese airspace
Two of Russia’s Tu-95MS strategic bombers have conducted a scheduled flight over the Sea of Japan and the north-western Pacific Ocean. The Russian Defence Ministry has published a video of the planned flight of two […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
The JMSDF Has Commissioned First Maya-class Destroyer
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned the first of two Maya (Improved Atago)-class, Aegis-equipped destroyers in a ceremony held on 19 March in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture learned GDC quoting Kosuke Takahashi. Named JS Maya (pennant […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
Japan commissioned first Soryu-class Submarine equipped with lithium-ion batteries
The Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned diesel-electric attack submarine JS Oryu, its first submarine equipped with lithium-ion batteries, in a ceremony held on 5 March in Hyogo Prefecture in west-central Japan. Learned GDC quoting […]
Air-Launched Weapons
Japan’s MHI develops an advanced derivative of type 12 ASM
Japan originally developed type 91 air-launched antiship missile based on surface-to-ship missile for the Ground Self-Defense Force by utilizing the Type 88 missile technology of the Ground Self-Defense Force. The advanced derivative called type 12 […]
C4iSR
Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS): The “Fish Hook” That Catches Chinese Submarines
Today, China is building an underwater Great Wall that reaches out to the first island chain that stretches from Japan to Taiwan to the Philippines to Indonesia, composed of its own sound surveillance system (SOSUS) […]
Naval Weapons
In-depth analysis of current sonar technology
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