Chinese Aircraft Flying Too Close To Japanese Aircraft
JAPAN has lodged protests to China after a statement from the defence ministry stated that a People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) JH-7 fighter-bomber flew as close as 30 metres … Read More
Tag: Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force
Admiral Akira Saito, Chief of Staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
ASIAN Defence Journal spoke to the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Chief of Staff, Admiral Akira Saito, recently. ADJ: This year has seen a number of new vessels and weapons systems … Read More
US F-35B conducts first landing on Kaga
JAPAN’S Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the United States Department of Defense (DOD) announced that a US Navy (USN) Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter landed successfully on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense … Read More
Japan Joins US Multi-Large Deck Event
Japan’s Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer, JS Ise participated in an exercise with two US Navy (USN) aircraft carrier strike groups (CSG) in the Philippine Sea. The multi-large-deck event involved the Japan … Read More
Japan-India Bilateral Maritime Exercise
The sixth edition of Japan India Maritime Exercise 2022 (JIMEX 2022) hosted by Indian Navy was held in the Bay of Bengal on Sept 11-18, 2022. The series of drills … Read More
Anti-Submarine Exercise Sea Dragon 2021
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM: The US and several participating nations — Royal Australian Air Force, Canadian Air Force, Indian Navy, and Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force — have kicked off … Read More
Thales, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Join Forces to Deliver Sonars to the JMSDF
PARIS/TOKYO: Thales and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has signed a contract for the delivery of High Frequency Synthetic Aperture Sonar (HFSAS) SAMDIS to equip MHI’s OZZ-5Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) for … Read More