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Swedish company Saab Bofors Dynamics will supply Japan with Carl-Gustaf grenade launchers. What is known The information appeared on the manufacturer’s official website. We are talking about more than 300 units of grenade launchers. Deliveries of weapons are scheduled for 2025. By the way, the Japanese Defense Forces have been using such Carl-Gustaf grenade launchers […]
Cruise, General Motors (GM), and Honda have formed a joint venture to provide self-driving taxi services in Japan. The new service, called Cruise Origin, will be created as an unmanned taxi service that picks up customers at a specified location and delivers them to their destination. Customers will use a special app on their smartphones […]
Today, the Japanese are testing a prototype of their rail trolley, but the future of this project is still in doubt. The Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), a part of the Japanese Ministry of Defense, has announced the first successful test of a medium-caliber electromagnetic railgun from a ship, conducted jointly with the Japan […]
The Japan Acquisition and Logistics Technology Agency has reported a successful test of an electromagnetic railgun from an offshore platform. Japan says that the reylane test was an important step forward for the technology, as the country plans to use it both at sea and on land. Information about the conditions under which the tests […]
Given the deteriorating security situation in Asia, Japan decided to purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States a year earlier. This was stated by Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara after a meeting with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin, according to the Japanese edition of Kyodo News. This decisive step was driven by the need […]
Japan has begun preparations for the arrival of the first fifth-generation F-35B Lightning II fighters. In the fall of 2021, the US Marine Corps conducted the first-ever takeoff and landing test of the fifth-generation F-35B Lightning II fighter jets on the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier JS Izumo. At that moment, for the first […]
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces have marked an important milestone. For the first time, the military service has carried out a “hot” refueling of the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter jet outside the country. Last month, Japanese experts were able to replenish the fuel supply in F-35 Lightning II fighters with F135 engines on. It […]
Sharks and many other animals do not need dentists, because they simply replace old teeth with new ones. The high specialization of human teeth (each one has its own unique purpose) is one of the reasons why we can’t do this and instead have to spend huge amounts of money on dentists. But the Japanese […]
The United States sent two unmanned ships to the coastal waters of Japan, the first time that American drones of this type have been used near China. Journalists, citing a statement from the US Navy, write that the US unmanned ships Ranger and Mariner arrived on September 18 in the Japanese port city of Yokosuka […]
Last week, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces celebrated a historic event. An American convertible landed on a helicopter carrier for the first time. A V-22 Osprey helicopter belonging to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces has landed on the deck of the helicopter destroyer JS Ise (DDH 182). Typically, Mitsubishi SH-60K helicopters are deployed on board […]