UV - Unmanned Vehicles
JGSDF intelligence units are using ScanEagle
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) exhibited an Insitu ScanEagle UAV loaded on a Type 73 medium truck at the Fuji School on 7 July, ...
LWI - Land Warfare
Japan-US jointly research next-gen amphibious vehicle
The Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency announced on 13 May that the Japanese MoD and US DoD had signed an agreement to jointly research next-generation ...
LWI - Land Warfare
JGSDF reorganises to protect the southwest islands
Beginning on 7 April, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) will deploy a unit of soldiers from the 15th Brigade on Miyako Island in Okinawa ...
LWI - Land Warfare
Komatsu withdraws from AFV production in Japan
Komatsu has decided to withdraw from the business of developing vehicles for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). According to Komatsu, it is too hard ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
ADECS 2019: Japan plans new electronic attack aircraft
22nd January 2019
Japan has decided to develop its own EW aircraft to oppose China and Russia, countries that are already reinforcing their own EW capabilities. This goal ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Japan to establish Space Monitoring Unit in 2022
10th December 2018
Japan’s MoD will establish a Space Monitoring Unit within the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) in FY2022, its mission to track space debris and hostile ...
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DN - Defence Notes
Japan develops new weapon technologies such as railguns
18th November 2018
The Japanese MoD’s import of expensive American weapons such as Aegis Ashore, F-35As, MV-22B Ospreys and AAV7s is squeezing the budget for procurement and R&D; ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Japan developing a counter-IED system
9th October 2018
Because the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) does not have any vehicles able to remotely detect IEDs, the Ground Systems Research Center (GSRC) of the ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Japan’s military unveils new EW system
31st August 2018
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) unveiled a prototype of its new Network Electronic Warfare System (NEWS) to the public at the Fuji Firepower event ...
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NWI - Naval Warfare
Japan invests in BMD ships and radar
3rd August 2018
The new Aegis destroyer Maya (DDG-179) of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was launched by Japan Marine United on 30 July. Possessing a ballistic ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
JGSDF unveils new NBC decontaminating set
12th June 2018
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) unveiled a new decontaminating set at Camp Oomiya on 27 May, the home base for the Central Nuclear Biological ...
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DH - Defence Helicopter
Japan lines up AH-X contenders
4th June 2018
The Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) in Japan’s MoD has invited companies to provide information for its next combat helicopter to succeed the Fuji-Bell ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
DSA 2018: Japan continues development of wheeled 155mm SPH
11th April 2018
The Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) within Japan’s MoD is developing a wheeled 155mm SPH as a successor to the FH-70 towed howitzer for ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
DSA 2018: Development delays for Japanese 8x8 APC
11th April 2018
The Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) announced in December that the development completion date of the Improved Wheeled Armoured Personnel Carrier (WAPC) for the ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
Japan creates Ground Component Command
27th March 2018
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) established a new Ground Component Command on 27 March to unify its five existing armies: the Northern, Northeastern, Eastern, ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Japan is testing C-2 ELINT aircraft
19th February 2018
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) is developing a new ELINT aircraft based on Kawasaki’s C-2 transporter (pictured). As the C-2 has a 30t payload ...
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DH - Defence Helicopter
Singapore Airshow 2018: Subaru opens UH-X maintenance facility
29th January 2018
The Subaru Corporation (formerly Fuji Heavy Industries) announced the completion of an aviation MRO facility at its Utsunomiya plant on 18 January. Its floor area ...
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NWI - Naval Warfare
ADECS 2018: JMSDF anticipates new and smaller destroyers
23rd January 2018
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) had 47 destroyers in 2013, but it plans to boost its fleet to 54 by 2023 by introducing a ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Japan makes decisions on Aegis Ashore deployment
19th November 2017
Japan’s MoD has decided to allocate two Aegis Ashore facilities armed with SM-3 Block IIA missiles to the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF), and to ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Analysis: Japanese BMD solutions face challenges
26th September 2017
North Korea’s continued cruise missile, intermediate-range ballistic missile and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches – 14 to date in 2017 – have caused Tokyo to ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
Japan puts AAV7 through its paces
6th September 2017
For the first time, the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) performed a mobility demonstration of one of its new BAE Systems AAV7A1 amphibious assault vehicles ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
Japan shows new Type 16 MCV
4th September 2017
A single Type 16 Manoeuvre Combat Vehicle (16MCV) appeared at the Fuji Firepower demonstration in Japan on 27 August. However, instead of the expected production ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
General Atomics pushes Guardian to Japan
29th March 2017
During a presentation at the Japan Drone 2017 exhibition on 23 March, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) disclosed that it is proposing the Guardian ...
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DN - Defence Notes
Japan faces headwinds in aircraft exports
15th February 2017
The Japanese government wishes to reduce development and production costs by exporting defence equipment to foreign nations. While this would boost Japan's domestic defence industry, ...
