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Japan started constructing a Self-Defense Forces base on uninhabited Mage Island in southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Thursday. According to an environmental assessment report made public earlier today, this four-year project in the 8 Sqkm Island will include building runways and ammunition storage facilities
One of the highlights of the Japanese defense ministrys budget worth billions of dollars is acquiring counterstrike capabilities, after having avoided it for several years due to its war-renouncing Constitution. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said 43 trillion yen ($326 billion) has been allotted to boost the militarys capabilities over the next five years from fiscal 2023, a major increase from the 27
The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) recently organized a launching ceremony in Shanghai for HTMS Chang, its Chinese-made Type 071E landing platform dock, which could indicate that it will be delivered to Thailand and put into service soon. RTN chief of staff Admiral Thaloengsak Sirisawat presided over the ceremony at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding on January 4, Thai media outlet
South Koreas President Yoon Suk-yeol made clear on December 27 that he will speed up the creation of a drone (UAV) unit designed to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance of North Koreas major military facilities. The Joint Chiefs of Staff plans to launch the Directorate of Countering Nuclear and WMD by reforming the existing Center for Countering Nuclear and WMD
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Lockheed Martin will upgrade the Aegis Weapon System (AWS) with integrated air and missile defense capabilities following a
South Korea reportedly sent drones across the border into North Korea for the first time on Monday, a retaliation to Kim Jong Un's regime dispatching five UAVs into its air space after a gap of more than five years. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the first North Korean drone crossed the border at 10:25 am and returned after flying for about three hours
The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) conducted joint firepower striking exercise involving troops of multiple services in the waters and airspace around the Taiwan Island on Christmas Day, said Army Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the PLA Eastern Theater Command (ETC), on Sunday.The spokesperson said that this is a "firm" response to the current escalation of provocations by the US in collusion with the Taiwan authorities
Amidst fears that the Ukraine war is fast depleting Russian supply of tanks, artillery, helicopters and others, President Putin yesterday visited the Tula factory where military equipment such as Pantsir-S1, ATGM Kornet-EM and BMP-2 armored vehicles are being assembled."President Vladimir Putin paid a working visit to Tula today and got acquainted with the work of the Shcheglovsky Val machine-building plant, of the State Corporation Rostec," an official statement said