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JASDF get 13 E-2C in one unit at Misawa, can easy create one second better placed...
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JASDF released their new AEW orbat
It will start from 20 April.

Airborne Warning Wing, Misawa
601 sqn, Misawa, E-2C
602 sqn, Hamamatsu, E-767
603 sqn, Naha, E-2C

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SamuraiBlue

SamuraiBlue

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Japan to send 100 SDF troops, radar to remote western island

TOKYO — Japan is sending 100 Self-Defense Force personnel soldiers and radar to its westernmost outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering China with ties between Asia’s biggest economies already hurt by a dispute over nearby islands they both claim.

Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera will break ground on Saturday for a military lookout station on Yonaguni, which is home to 1,500 people and just 150 km from the disputed Japanese-held islands claimed by China.

The mini-militarization of Yonaguni - now defended by two police officers - is part of a longstanding plan to improve defense and surveillance in Japan’s far-flung frontier.

Building the radar base on the island, which is much closer to China than to Japan’s main islands, could extend Japanese monitoring to the Chinese mainland and track Chinese ships and aircraft circling the disputed crags, called the Senkaku by Japan and the Diaoyu by China.

“We decided to deploy a Ground Self-Defense Force unit on Yonaguni Island as a part of our effort to strengthen the surveillance over the southwestern region,” Onodera said this week. “We are staunchly determined to protect Yonaguni Island, a part of the precious Japanese territory.”

The 30-square-kilometer backwater - known for strong rice liquor, cattle, sugar cane and scuba diving - may seem an unlikely place for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to put boots on the ground.....to read more
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Maiden flight of ATD-X scheduled this year
Minister of Defense, Onodera answers to IHS Janes interview stating ATD-X will make her maiden flight sometime this year.
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shen

shen

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TerraN_EmpirE said:
deterrence Against Who?

I think there own propiganda sums it up.
[video=youtube_share;P7e0Q1EUiZk]http://youtu.be/P7e0Q1EUiZk[/video]
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haha :) the translation if totally fake. This is the real translation.
[video=youtube;hK8zQIsMmnk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK8zQIsMmnk[/video]

here is another fake "north korean propaganda video".
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Two DDG from JMSDF visit Karachi port

DDG-113 and DDG-106

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Jeff Head

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JMSDF Hayabusa Class Missile Boats


[video=youtube;qGnFpN-hthk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGnFpN-hthk[/video]
Hayabusa Class FAC. Leaves dock at about 2:30 in video
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The Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force built and commissioned six of these small, but very impressive and very fast missile boats between 2002 and 2004. I was not sure how many SD members were aware of them

Length: 164 ft.
Width: 28 ft.
Draft: 14 ft.
Displacement: 250 tons
Propulsion: 3 x GE LM500-G07 gas turbines. 3 x Pump Jets
Speed: 46 knots
Crew: 21
Armament:
1 x 76mm DP gun
4 x Harpoon Missiles
2 x 12.7mm MGs
 
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advill

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Tks Jeff. The JMSDF has an impressive Naval Force of ships and craft they can build in Japan. The Japanese people do not like to talk too much or reveal their secrets, perhaps only to their trusted ally like the US. Jolly clever I must say!


Jeff Head said:
JMSDF Hayabusa Class Missile Boats


[video=youtube;qGnFpN-hthk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGnFpN-hthk[/video]
Hayabusa Class FAC. Leaves dock at about 2:30 in video
​

The Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force built and commissioned six of these small, but very impressive and very fast missile boats between 2002 and 2004. I was not sure how many SD members were aware of them

Length: 164 ft.
Width: 28 ft.
Draft: 14 ft.
Displacement: 250 tons
Propulsion: 3 x GE LM500-G07 gas turbines. 3 x Pump Jets
Speed: 46 knots
Crew: 21
Armament:
1 x 76mm DP gun
4 x Harpoon Missiles
2 x 12.7mm MGs
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SamuraiBlue

SamuraiBlue

Captain
Jeff Head said:
JMSDF Hayabusa Class Missile Boats


[video=youtube;qGnFpN-hthk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGnFpN-hthk[/video]
Hayabusa Class FAC. Leaves dock at about 2:30 in video
​

The Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force built and commissioned six of these small, but very impressive and very fast missile boats between 2002 and 2004. I was not sure how many SD members were aware of them

Length: 164 ft.
Width: 28 ft.
Draft: 14 ft.
Displacement: 250 tons
Propulsion: 3 x GE LM500-G07 gas turbines. 3 x Pump Jets
Speed: 46 knots
Crew: 21
Armament:
1 x 76mm DP gun
4 x Harpoon Missiles
2 x 12.7mm MGs
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If you want a FAST getaway boat this is definitely the one.
The ones that these replace were also interesting.

JMSDF PG NO.1 class
Displacement standard：50 tonnes
Full：60 tonnes
Length 21.8m（When hydrofoil wings are submerged）
Width 7.0m（not including hydrofoil wings）
Depth 3.5m
Engine IMI LM500 Gas turbine（4,000PS） 1
Isuzu Marine diesel engine （130PS） 1
Top speed 46ノット
Number of crew 11
Armament JM61-RFS 20mm Machine gun 1
Type90SSM tubes 2
Mk.137 decoy launcher 2
C4I system (OYQ-8+link 11)
Sensor OPS-18surface tracking radar 1
OPS-20 navigational radar 1
NOLR-9 ESM device 1
These were originally designed by the Italians.
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joshuatree

Captain
Jeff Head said:
Length: 164 ft.
Width: 28 ft.
Draft: 14 ft.
Displacement: 250 tons
Propulsion: 3 x GE LM500-G07 gas turbines. 3 x Pump Jets
Speed: 46 knots
Crew: 21
Armament:
1 x 76mm DP gun
4 x Harpoon Missiles
2 x 12.7mm MGs
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Cool tidbit.....wonder what the range is with 3 gas turbines on a 250 ton vessel.
 
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