North Korea launched what may have been a ballistic missile at about 12:36 p.m. local time on Oct. 29, and it is presumed to have fallen near the east coast of the Korean Peninsula without reaching Japanβs territory or exclusive economic zone, Japanβs Ministry of Defense said on social media. Tokyo said Japan, the United [β¦]Japan will host a final assembly plant for the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile after Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth agreed on Oct. 28 to build the facility as part of joint U.S.-Japanese missile production, Nikkei reported. The two met for about 30 minutes in Cebu, the Philippines, on the [β¦]A Russian Navy intelligence-gathering ship sailed southwest through the Tsushima Strait between Japan and South Korea on Oct. 27 and 28 and headed into the East China Sea, Japanβs Joint Staff Office said. The Joint Staff identified the vessel as a Vishnya-class intelligence collection ship and released a map showing its hull number, 535. That [β¦]The U.S. Marine Corps has tested kamikaze drones in Japan, flying Neros Archer one-way attack drones armed with live explosive warheads at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, at the foot of Mount Fuji, on Oct. 20, 2026, the first time the drone has been used in its live kinetic form at the range. Marines [β¦]Japan Ground Self-Defense Force troops deployed the new Type 25 surface-to-ship missile system to the Εnohara training area in Nagasaki Prefecture and rehearsed anti-ship strikes using targeting information from U.S. forces and higher headquarters during Keen Sword 27, Japanβs largest joint field exercise with the United States, the GSDFβs Western Army said. The Western Army [β¦]Posts on X lamenting the state of Japanβs Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol fleet have drawn more than 100,000 views, as Japanese aviation enthusiasts urged the public to spread the word about the hardships facing Maritime Self-Defense Force units after reports that some newly delivered P-1s are arriving without their patrol equipment and are being stripped [β¦]China and Russia sent military intelligence aircraft toward Japan on four consecutive days this week, prompting the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to scramble fighters each day, as two Chinese Y-9 aircraft crossed the gap between Okinawa and Miyako-jima into the Pacific on Oct. 20 and 21 and Russian IL-20 aircraft flew over the Sea of [β¦]Kadena Air Base in Okinawa will bar all vehicles made by Chinese electric carmaker BYD from entering the installation starting Oct. 26 over concerns that the cars could expose sensitive military information, Kangnam Times reported. The ban covers privately owned cars as well as contractor vehicles, taxis, delivery vans and other commercial vehicles. The 18th [β¦]Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Oct. 19 that the basic policy governing how the Ministry of Defense and the Self-Defense Forces use artificial intelligence needs to be reviewed, telling lawmakers that AI development has moved faster than the 2024 guidelines can handle, the Nikkei reported. βI feel there is a need to review [β¦]Chinaβs Liaoning carrier group has carried out its second far-seas training deployment to the Western Pacific this year, a decade after the carrierβs first such voyage in 2016, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Oct. 24, describing the shipβs path over those 10 years as a three-step climb from training ship to combat ship to [β¦]A Typhoon uncrewed surface vessel built by California-based Splash Industries demonstrated naval interception during a drone demonstration at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, on Oct. 21, 2026, as part of the Keen Sword 27 exercise between U.S. forces and the Japan Self-Defense Forces. The demonstration put the small, fast drone boat through an intercept [β¦]Japanβs Ground Self-Defense Force has been carrying out live-fire air defense training since July 2026 at ranges in northern Japan and in the United States, where its medium-range missile units are firing alongside Japan Air Self-Defense Force Patriot batteries at McGregor Range in New Mexico. The Ground Self-Defense Force, Japanβs army, said on X that [β¦]U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters from Alaska are operating from Tsuiki Air Base on Japanβs southern island of Kyushu as part of Keen Sword 27, the largest iteration so far of the biennial U.S.-Japan military exercise. A photo released by the U.S. military shows an F-22 from the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron parked [β¦]Japanβs Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets 442 times between April 1 and Sept. 30, about two-thirds more than the 265 scrambles in the same period last year, according to Joint Staff Office figures reported by USNI News. The rise came as Chinese and Russian military aircraft flew near Japan far more often, and the [β¦]The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, on Oct. 16, 2026, with the cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) and the destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73), as the strike group prepares for the U.S.-Japan exercise Keen Sword. The three ships of Carrier Strike Group 9 pulled into Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, [β¦]
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