Icebreaker Shirase – Key To Japan’s Antarctic Expedition
Air Force (JASDF)
What Is Japan’s Air Development & Test Wing?
Testing New Aircraft/Tech Among the many units in Japan's Air Self-Defense Force...
Every JASDF Pilot Starts With The T-7 Trainer Aircraft
The First Plane To Fly When becoming a pilot in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force...
The Crucial Role of Japan’s Mobile Surveillance Radars
Backing Up Radar Sites Modern warfare begins with air strikes against radar site...
How Japan Ended Up With Just Three Global Hawk UAVs
For Maritime Patrols As a nation with over 7,000 islands, Japan ranks sixth glob...
Why Did Japan Use The F-4 Fighter For So Long?
In Service: 1971〜2021 Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) operates some of th...
How Different Is Japan’s Air Force One?
A Rather Short History Alike the famous Air Force One used by the United States ...
Japanese TopGun? Meet JASDF’s Elite Aggressor Unit
Tactical Fighter Training Group Among the fighter squadrons of the Japan Air Sel...
GCAP Alliance? Developing Japan’s Next Stealth Fighter
Japan-UK-Italy Project Among the three types of fighter jets currently operated ...
What To Expect From Kawasaki’s Electronic Warfare Aircraft
Offensive Capabilities As the modern-day battlefield extends to new realms of sp...
Kawasaki C-1 – Postwar Japan’s First Transport Aircraft
JASDF's First Domestic Transport The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), also ...
Next Space Force? Japan’s Space Operations Group
Newly Formed In 2020 Just one year after the United States established its new S...
How Kawasaki’s T-4 Jet Trains Japanese Pilots
First Jet For Trainees Every pilot in the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF...
What Happened To Japan’s ASM-3 Anti-Ship Missile?
Stealthy & Supersonic While the primary role of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (...
How Good Was The Mitsubishi F-1 Fighter Jet?
De-facto Fighter Bomber Following the defeat in WW2, Japan was temporarily banne...
Why Japan Is Deploying Its Air Force To Australia
The Quasi-Alliance Japan's formal ally is the United States alone, but recent ye...
What Happened To Mitsubishi’s X-2 Stealth Fighter Jet?
An Experimental Plane While gradually increasing the number of F-35 stealth figh...
How Capable Are Japanese Patriot Missiles Against Threats?
Last Line Of Defense Ever since North Korea's nuclear program and the developmen...
How Good Is Kawasaki’s C-2 Transport Plane?
Japan's Latest Military Transport Recently, Japan's Air Force (JASDF) has been b...
Why Mitsubishi’s F-2 Fighter Is Deadly Against Ships
Quasi-Domestic Fighter Japan's air-force, the JASDF operates several types of fi...