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India Today said:
Prime Minister Narendra ModiIn a groundbreaking move that will send a strong signal to China, India and Japan have firmed up their first ever defence cooperation agreement and it is expected to be signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit next month.

It's reliably learnt that the agreement is ready for the Union Cabinet to take it up for approval next week. Sources said Japan too is in the process of completing its own internal formalities ahead of the visit in the first week of September.

This will be a historic step for Japan as it will be signing its first such agreement outside its traditional alliance partners US, Australia and Britain. The decision in itself reflects Japan's changed interpretation of its pacifist constitution.

The pact, which is essentially a MoU on defence cooperation and exchanges, sets a framework for engagement, including in equipment purchase and production. Both countries have been engaged in conversations on such issues through a dialogue of senior officials and an agreement now provides a firm basis to the initiative of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his last term.

Under this framework, sources said, the two sides will look to expand the scope of their joint exercises. India is still to take a call on whether it wants to conduct land- and air-based exercises with Japan keeping in view the levels to which China could be provoked.
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New India Express said:
NEW DELHI: The Japanese Navy will showcase before the Indian Navy a seaplane and its operations during the ongoing trilateral Malabar maritime exercise, also involving the US Navy, off Nagasaki’s Port Sasebo in western Pacific Ocean.

The seaplane, which the Navy wants to procure and deploy in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for maritime patrol, is built by Japanese firm ShinMaywa. US-2, as the amphibious plane is called, can take off from and land on water and is a suitable platform for operations between island territories. The Japanese Navy would operate the US-2 sea-plane during the Malabar exercise, a Navy officer said here in New Delhi.

The Indian Navy is keen on getting around 20 of these sea-planes.During the exercise, the Navy personnel from India, the US and Japan would interact between Thursday to Saturday at Port Sasebo and later their warships would venture to the deep sea for at-sea training.

The Japanese Navy would also deploy two destroyers along with a P3C Orion maritime reconnaissance plane during the exercise.
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This plane is truly amazing.

She has a length of 33 meters with range of 4,700Km and can land on swells up to 3 meters.
The overall size is basically the same as a 737-700.

Here is a vid that show how it looks inside.

[video=youtube;JCoy0m1YF9g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCoy0m1YF9g[/video]
 
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kwaigonegin said:
The ShinMehwa seaplane is like a million yrs old ain't it? I've seen it a couple times. They've been around forever! probably like the C-130s!
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Not these kwaig. These US-2 aircraft are the new ones.

First flew in 2003, became operational in 2007. Japan has just a few of them to date, but is building more. An order of 15 by India would be a big deal.

I think you are referring to the earlier US-1 seaplanes that first flew in 1967 and became operational in 1971. I believe they produced like 45 of them, and the US-2 are meant to replace over time.

Here's the US-1:

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kwaigonegin said:
The ShinMehwa seaplane is like a million yrs old ain't it? I've seen it a couple times. They've been around forever! probably like the C-130s!
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They still work like a charm for their mission! Same as the C-130s. It's telling that China is looking at developing their equivalent, a successor to the SH-5.
 
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PanAsian said:
They still work like a charm for their mission! Same as the C-130s. It's telling that China is looking at developing their equivalent, a successor to the SH-5.
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China is already doing that. They are building the TA-600 water plane and the maiden flight is next year. Coming in at 53,5 tons it 6 tons heavier than the US-2 and will be the world's largest.

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PanAsian said:
They still work like a charm for their mission! Same as the C-130s. It's telling that China is looking at developing their equivalent, a successor to the SH-5.
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The first plane shown, to which kwaig referred is the US-2 aircraft...and those are a new design.

The older Japanese seaplanes are the US-1 aircraft.

See my response to kwaig just before your post.
 
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Jeff Head said:
The first plane shown, to which kwaig referred is the US-2 aircraft...and those are a new design.

The older Japanese seaplanes are the US-1 aircraft.

See my response to kwaig just before your post.
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Yup you're right... this is what happens when you speak w/o doing research! I didn't know they have made newer ones.
 
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