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☆ China's balloons give Japan and Taiwan a reason to share intelligence, says lawmaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TOKYO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The flight of suspected Chinese surveillance balloons has shown that Japan and Taiwan need to share "critical" intelligence about possible aerial threats, a senior defence policymaker for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said. Japan said on Tuesday it suspected Chinese spy balloons had flown over Japan at least three times, most recently in 2021. The change will add unmanned aircraft to those," Minoru Kihara, one of the lawmakers, told reporters after the briefing. Japan on Wednesday said it had warned China that violations of its airspace by surveillance balloons were unacceptable. China said the balloon was a civilian weather-monitoring aircraft and it accused the United States of sending its balloons into Chinese airspace.

TOKYO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Japan, Britain and Italy will announce a groundbreaking agreement as early as next week to jointly develop a new advanced jet fighter, two sources with knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The push to merge the British led Tempest jet fighter project with Japan's F-X fighter programme was first reported by Reuters in July. It will be the first time that Japan has collaborated with countries beyond the United States on a major defence equipment project. The announcement will come before Japan releases a new national security strategy and military procurement plan around mid December, the sources said. Reporting by Tim Kelly Editing by Shri NavaratnamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Japan and Britain hope to agree by the end of the year to merge their next-generation Tempest and F-X fighter programmes, sources said in July. Those talks, aimed at a joint project to field a plane in the mid-2030s, remain on track, according to four other people familiar with the discussions. Japan ended a ban on military exports in 2014 in a bid to promote overseas sales. An export boom, however, failed to materialize because Japan only allowed sales of non-lethal gear such as surveillance and rescue equipment. LDP lawmakers, Onodera said, are also discussing a joint U.S-Japan command structure that could be formed for national emergencies.

☆ Japonia vrea să dezvolte sisteme de rachete capabile să atingă teritoriul Coreei de Nord
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-09 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Japonia intenţionează să dezvolte sisteme de rachete capabile să atingă teritoriul Coreei de Nord, în cadrul unui plan de suplimentare a capabilităţilor militare care ar oferi Guvernului de la Tokyo posibilitatea de lansare a unui atac preventiv, conform publicaţiei The Wall Street Journal, citată de Mediafax. Parlamentarii coaliţiei guvernamentale au aprobat miercuri propunerea privind sistemul balistic, iar ministrul japonez al Apărării, Nobuo Kishi, a declarat că armata vrea consolidarea capabilităţilor militare pentru contracararea inamicilor. Fostul premier nipon Shinzo Abe a avut ca prioritate dezvoltarea unor sisteme antibalistice. Noul Guvern de la Tokyo, condus de premierul Yoshihide Suga, va instala sisteme antibalistice de tip Aegis la bordul unor nave militare. În plus, Ministerul japonez al Apărării vrea să achiziţioneze rachete de tip „12”, dezvoltate de filiala militară a companiei Mitsubishi.

Persons: Shinzo Abe, Itsunori Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Mediafax, Apărării, Ministerul, Mitsubishi, Partidului Liberal - Democrat Locations: Japonia, Coreei de Nord, Tokyo, Coreea de Nord

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