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Japan To Deploy Five Aegis Destroyers By March 2018

August 17, 2017 @ 09:50 AM

Japan has requested budgetary allocation for the land-based version of Aegis ballistic missile defense system in the next...

Six MV-22 Osprey Aircraft To Join US-Japan Military Exercise

August 15, 2017 @ 11:20 AM

Up to six MV-22 Ospreys with the US Marine Corps will join a US-Japan military exercise from Friday,...

Mechanical Failure Ruled Out As Cause For Osprey Crash Off Australian Coast

August 11, 2017 @ 10:05 AM

The Japanese Defense Ministry has cleared Ospreys for flights after US investigators ruled out mechanical failures as the...

Japan Hints at Increasing Defence Capability Due To North Korean, Chinese Threats

August 8, 2017 @ 01:29 PM

Japan has hinted at raising defense capabiltiy, citing concern of increasing threat from North Korea and China in...

Tokyo Wants US Osprey Aircraft Grounded in Japan Pending Australian Crash Investigation

August 7, 2017 @ 09:07 AM

Japan has demanded that the US ground its V-22 Osprey aircraft deployed in Japan after one of the...

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Japan’s Defense Minister Resigns Over Alleged Activity Log Cover-up

July 28, 2017 @ 07:57 AM

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada has tendered resignation taking responsibility over an alleged cover-up involving daily activity logs...

Japan To Equip F-2 Fighters With New Air-to-Ship Missiles

July 19, 2017 @ 12:35 PM

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force will equip its F-2 fighters fleet with a new air-to-ship missile that travels three...

China's Xian H-6K Long-Range Bombers Fly Near Japan

July 15, 2017 @ 09:37 AM

Chinas Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) flew six Xian H-6K long-range bombers through the strategically important Miyako...

Japan-US Forces To Test Patriot Missile Defense In Training Exercise Next Month

July 13, 2017 @ 12:52 PM

Japans Air Self-Defense Force will deploy a Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) surface-to-air guided missile unit for a...

Boeing Wins $93 Million To Support NATO, Japanese, UK, French, Saudi E-3 AWACS

July 8, 2017 @ 09:24 AM

Boeing has won a $93 million five-year contract for E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) sustainment engineering...

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