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Why Japan Built The Shikishima-Class Patrol Vessel
Army（JGSDF）
Army（JGSDF） What Are Mitsubishi’s Heavy Wheeled Recovery Vehicles?
Saving Wheeled Armored Vehicles While "speed" is the key for a successful ground...
Army（JGSDF） How Good Are The Japanese Army’s Ambulance Trucks?
Modified Isuzu Medium Truck As the War in Ukraine has proven once more, ground c...
Army（JGSDF） Japan’s Military Is Buying FPV “Kamikaze” Drones
310 Units By 2026 Amid the widespread use of the so called "kamikaze" drones in ...
Army（JGSDF） The Japanese Army’s Armored Recovery Vehicles
Indispensable For Combat While tanks play a vital role in ground combat, they ar...
Army（JGSDF） What Does Japan’s Central Readiness Regiment Do?
For Rapid Response While the Japanese Self-Defense Force (JSDF) is tasked with d...
Army（JGSDF） Japan’s Army Using New Reinforced Golf-Carts?
Repurposed Kawasaki MULE The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) has rece...
Army（JGSDF） JGSDF’s LR-2 Liaison/Communications Plane
The Only Fixed-Wing Plane When it comes to air units of the Japan Ground Self-De...
Army（JGSDF） Japan’s New Counter-Drone Mobile Laser System
Equipped With 10kW Lasers a mobile laser-based counter-unmanned aircraft system ...
Army（JGSDF） The Howa Type 20 – Japan’s Latest Assault Rifle
Type 89's Replacement While the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) use the Type...
Army（JGSDF） The Pretty OK Japanese Type 75 Self-Propelled Howitzers
The Mass-Produced Model The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) started ...
Army（JGSDF） The Japanese Military’s Bridging Equipment
Type 92: Connecting Floats When living in a country where road networks are well...
Army（JGSDF） How Good Are Japan’s Type 11 Surface-To-Air Missiles?
Replacing the Type 81 SAM Unknown to many, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forc...
Army（JGSDF） The Backbone Of Logistics? The Type 73 Truck
Seen Just Everywhere As the famous saying “Amateurs strategy, professionals talk...
Army（JGSDF） Why So Few Type 74 Self-Propelled Howitzers Were Made
Postwar Japan's First? If the Russo-Ukrainian War has taught us anything, it is ...
Army（JGSDF） The Vital Role Of JGSDF’s Coastal Surveillance Units
Monitoring Foreign Ships Japan is an island nation surrounded by the ocean on al...
Army（JGSDF） The Japanese “Marine-One” – EC225 VIP Helicopter
Operated By JGSDF When high-ranking government officials, including the Prime Mi...
Army（JGSDF） The Extremely Rare Type 96 Self-Propelled 120mm Mortars
Only In Hokkaido Among the infantry units of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Fo...
Army（JGSDF） What Are Japan’s Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectiles?
For Island Defense Operations In response to China's increasing assertiveness, J...
Army（JGSDF） Japan Is Finally Storing Old Weapons For Reserve
From Scrap To Storage Due to budget constraints and organizational culture, the ...
Army（JGSDF） How Good Is Japan’s Type 89 Assault Rifle?
Fixing The Type 64's Flaws The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) had long relied ...