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Navy（JMSDF） Why Asagiri-Class Destroyers Were So Important
The New Eight-Eight Fleet During the 1980s, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force ...
Army（JGSDF） Japan Plans To Replace Attack Helicopters With Drones
Introducing New Drones In late 2022, the Japan announced the largest defense bud...
Army（JGSDF） What Are Type 82 Command Communication Vehicles For?
JGSDF's First Wheeled Armor Recent years has seen an increase of wheeled armored...
Military What Happened To Japan’s ASM-3 Anti-Ship Missile?
Stealthy & Supersonic While the primary role of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (...
Navy（JMSDF） Icebreaker Shirase – Key To Japan’s Antarctic Expedition
Operated By The Navy Despite being explored for over a century, Antarctica remai...
Army（JGSDF） How Useful Are Japanese Type 87 RCVs?
For Reconnaissance In Force Gathering information on your adversary is vital for...
Military How Good Was The Mitsubishi F-1 Fighter Jet?
De-facto Fighter Bomber Following the defeat in WW2, Japan was temporarily banne...
Army（JGSDF） Too Vulnerable? Japan’s Type 96 Armored Personnel Carrier
JGSDF's First wheeled APC Armored Personnel Carriers (APC), which can swiftly an...
Navy（JMSDF） The Secret Role of JMSDF’s Muroto-Class ARC
Cable Laying Ship For ASW When it comes to secrecy within the Maritime Self-Defe...
Army（JGSDF） How Does The Type 91 MANPADS Compare To The Stinger?
Japan's Portable Air-Defense Despite being vulnerable to aerial attacks, modern ...
Army（JGSDF） The Extremely Useful Type 92 Mine Clearance Vehicle
Using Rocket-propelled Charges Overcoming minefields have been one of the most d...
Army（JGSDF） Not Enough? Japan’s Type 99 Self-Propelled Howitzer
JGSDF's Modern Howitzer As seen in the Russo-Ukrainian War, continuously firing ...
Military Why Japan Canceled The Aegis Ashore Program
Relieving the Navy Every since North Korea's missile program was revealed as a t...
Military Why Kongo-Class Aegis Destroyers Are Crucial For Japan
Japanese's First Aegis Known for their highly sophisticated air-defense, Aegis d...
Army（JGSDF） Can Japanese SSM Regiments Stop The Chinese Navy?
World's Top SSM Operator As an island nation, preventing any enemy landing is th...
Military Why Japan Is Deploying Its Air Force To Australia
The Quasi-Alliance Japan's formal ally is the United States alone, but recent ye...
Army（JGSDF） No Replacement? JGSDF’s Type 89 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
The First Japanese IFV In modern land battles, infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) ...
Military Under-appreciated? JMSDF’s Murasame-class Destroyers
Large & Standardized Among the impressive list of surface vessels, the current b...
Navy（JMSDF） The Type 12 Torpedo – Japan’s Latest Submarine Killer
For Short-Range Attacks Once cherished by the Imperial Japanese Navy, torpedos h...
Army（JGSDF） JGSDF’s Guntank – Type 87 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun
The Japanese "Gepard" The Russo-Ukrainian War has brought many insights in a mil...