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Japanese Minister of Defence Mr. Itsunori Onodera, as well as Destroyer "Ikazuchi", visited Sri Lanka

Japanese Defence Minister meets State Minister of Defence -
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Japanese Minister of Defence visits Eastern Naval Command -
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Japanese ship in the island -
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Crew of JMSDF “Ikazuchi” assists to clean Trincomalee beach area -
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Jeff Head

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now noticed (the Republic of Korea) Navy mulls possibility of operating F-35B aboard new amphibious assault ship
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Well...we knew this was coming.

The S. Koreans are probably going to put the F-35B on their second Dokdo...and it will probably end up having a ski jump.

If that for sure happens...I expect the Japanese will follow suite soon. Watch for it folks.

...and AFAIAC...it will be very good news.
 

Jeff Head

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Jeff to be honest I don't think JMSDF will settle for a half a$$ light carrier when Japan has the capability to construct a full fledged carrier today if she wanted one.
EMALs are not that difficult to develop for Japan since we invested a lot in Maglev technology. They just need to tweak the frequency inverter to handle higher frequency to accommodate faster acceleration.
Like I have posted in the past I do not think a light carrier will not be carrying any manned aircraft but will deploy and collecting drones from their pads. Once deployed they will coordinate with a flighter squadron that had launched from the nearest air base. The drones can be piloted from the carrier or from any other remote location via satellite.
The drones can act as decoy while the manned aircraft attack from the other side, defend flank side and/or coordinate a time delayed attack with the manned fighters.
You'll have a wider range of attack plans this way with more drones in the sky carried by the light carriers then just a handful of manned jets that can only take off with minimum ordinance.
Ultimately...you are probably right.

But I believe they will pull out a 2-4 ship class of an enhanced Izumo with 20-24 F-35Bs on it first.

The koreans are goving them the perfect preteext to do so...and I know the US would welcome it.

4 carriers with a decent AEW platform (and I would love to see the JMSDF push for and get developed an EV-22 for that role), armed with 24 F-35Bs wiould counter the carriers the Chinese are building...particularly in conjunction with other allies.

Once that has happeneded and been in place a few years...and as China then builds nuclear powered larger c arriers...in that time frame we might see the JMSDF come up with a full size, full deck carrier. That would be in the mid 2030 time frame IMHO. But they could put those four other carriers into operation before 2030.
 

SamuraiBlue

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Although a bit dated, it's kind of interesting read.

Japan’s crack submarine fleet

China has lately been resorting to defiant and audacious acts like claiming its territorial rights over waters around artificial island it has built in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea and unilaterally designating an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea.

While these acts are visible to all, the real front battle line lies deep in the sea where submarines are principal players. This article attempts to provide in-depth descriptions of the real picture of submarines of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and their roles, as little has so far been made known about them.



During the 1998 Rim of the Pacific Exercise off the coast of Hawaii, Adm. Archie Clemens, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was dumbfounded as a monitor screen showed that eight vessels of his fleet were “attacked and sunk” one after another by a single MSDF submarine.

In the subsequent RIMPAC exercises, MSDF submarines and surface ships have maintained the upper hand. One U.S. naval officer said that those submarines were the last thing he would like to fight, adding that if they got really serious it would become impossible to continue the exercise.

The reason that has led the United States to give such a complimentary evaluation of MSDF submarines is that they perform at such a high level that even the general Japanese public has trouble grasping just how good they are. This ability stems from two factors: one is the subs’ performance characteristics that are superb even by global standards and the other is the high levels of training that their crews go through...... to read more
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Now if the US navy captains are so weary of these subs I wonder how the PLAN counterparts think of them?

On JP History Channel there is a interesting piece call JSDF Kokuryu vs P1 in which Admiral Ito a former sub captain and Admiral Kuramochi a former captain of fleet of P3Csub hunters acts as commentators of how each side will stage an attack on the other side.

If you have the chance it is a must see.
 
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was curious of
Although a bit dated
:
"During the 1998 Rim of the Pacific Exercise off the coast of Hawaii, Adm. Archie Clemens, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was dumbfounded as a monitor screen showed that eight vessels of his fleet were “attacked and sunk” one after another by a single MSDF submarine."

20 years, not bad for
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SamuraiBlue

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was curious of :
"During the 1998 Rim of the Pacific Exercise off the coast of Hawaii, Adm. Archie Clemens, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was dumbfounded as a monitor screen showed that eight vessels of his fleet were “attacked and sunk” one after another by a single MSDF submarine."

20 years, not bad for
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LOL!
Yeah, but I doubt PLAN has even reached that point THIS MOMENT NOW!! LoL
 

Hendrik_2000

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Yeah, but I doubt PLAN has even reached that point THIS MOMENT NOW!! LoL

You never know because f secretive nature of PLAN And Submarine technology is uber geheim(super secret).What we know is they are building factory to serial produced the next gen of submarine which they promise to be the next gen submarine
Lead is such ephemeral word technology keep advancing China with 3X Japan's defense budget certainly can afford and be expected to eventually lead Japan just like any other field in civilian technology
At the onset of WWII Japan has 10 Carrier and US 3. Yet it does not decide the outcome of war
 
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Janiz

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On JP History Channel there is a interesting piece call JSDF Kokuryu vs P1 in which Admiral Ito a former sub captain and Admiral Kuramochi a former captain of fleet of P3Csub hunters acts as commentators of how each side will stage an attack on the other side.
Would love to watch this but unfortunately it will be hard to come by not living in Japan currently...
 
noticed this Commentary: Japan, Taiwan must re-evaluate how they’re intercepting Chinese threats
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On a recent trip to East Asia, the subject of steadily increasing
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in the waters and airspace of Japan and Taiwan came up often.

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are growing in number and sophistication of platforms, and China has been sending ships and aircraft in increasing numbers through international waters around both Taiwan and Japan, through their Exclusive Economic Zones, Air Defense Identification Zones, contiguous zones, and even territorial waters and airspace. Both Japan and Taiwan interpret this
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, intercept every Chinese airplane or ship as it approaches these zones, and escort them throughout their flight or voyage. Both Taiwan and Japan publish the number and location of these Chinese activities as they occur and in statistical accounts every year.

Although this intercept and escort policy seems a sensible way of protecting a country’s sovereignty, demonstrating that a country’s armed forces are on their guard and can defend their territory, it comes at a cost in military effectiveness.

“Scrambles” of alert aircraft to
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, and rapid sorties of alert surface ships to intercept Chinese ships, are simple tactical evolutions that provide little training value in wartime skills. The pattern of reactions provides intelligence insights to the People’s Liberation Army about Japanese and Taiwanese surveillance and reaction capabilities, insights that can be used to the PLA’s advantage in combat operations.

The budget effects of these “intercept and escort everything” policies are more important. They use up flying and steaming hour budgets, leaving less money available for complex exercises to hone more difficult skills that will be needed in wartime. Within limited defense budgets, purchasing replacement or additional aircraft and ships for intercept and escort competes with the purchase of larger inventories of long-range surface-to-air missiles, submarines or other systems that are of greater utility in defeating Chinese attempts to take and hold islands.

In other words, Japan and Taiwan, with their “intercept everything” policies, are degrading their readiness to defend their territory in conflict, lowering deterrence of Chinese military aggression.

How can these policies be changed without appearing as a weakening of resolve and capability? The military leaders of both Japan and Taiwan are under strong political pressure to intercept and escort every Chinese sortie near their territory. China should not be able to operate freely around Taiwanese or Japanese territory. Neither should China be able to dictate how Japan and Taiwan allocate their defense budgets.

A first step is for both Taiwan and Japan to decide how much of their navy and air force operating budgets should be spent on intercept and escort operations, and how much should be spent on training for wartime missions. There is no correct proportion, but intercept and escort operations should consume only a small fraction of navy and air force training budgets, say 10 percent.

A second step is for both Taiwan and Japan to remove intercept and escort as a separate mission to justify force acquisition decisions. Ships and planes and sensors and weapons should be purchased for their wartime usefulness, not for peacetime activities. Both Japan and Taiwan need fighter aircraft and surface combatants for wartime missions, but it is a waste of scarce resources to purchase replacement or additional units for intercept and escort operations.

A third step is for Japan and Taiwan to make new policies for intercept and escort. Under these new concepts, Japan and Taiwan would not automatically intercept and escort all Chinese flights and voyages near their waters. They would be selective and unpredictable, not revealing their full capabilities but demonstrating that they are closely following Chinese activity and can intercept it if they choose to do so.

Additionally, Japanese and Taiwanese defense leaders need to educate the public in their respective countries about the new policy and about the difference between military operations in peacetime and in conflict. The public needs to know, for example, that all countries, including China, under international law can operate their ships and aircraft in international waters in peacetime. They need to know that Japanese and Taiwanese ships and vessels also have the right to operate freely in waters and airspace close to China, and that no country owns international waters and air space beyond 12 miles from its shores.

To emphasize this point, Japan and Taiwan should send some of their own ships and aircraft on occasion into international waters closer to China. China will react with its own intercept and escort operations, as they do with American air and surface ship operations near China. China will respond publicly with denunciations of the Japanese and Taiwanese operations as “hostile and threatening,” while insisting that their own similar operations are peaceful and pose no threat. The contradiction will not be lost on Taiwanese and Japanese citizens.

Taiwanese and Japanese citizens also need to know that countries can operate their ships and aircraft in peacetime in locations that would not be possible in wartime. To drive this point home, Japanese and Taiwanese forces can use Chinese operations around their waters to exercise wartime skills. Several months ago, the refurbished Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning made a cruise around Taiwan, a subject of major political concern in the Taiwanese press. If the Liaoning makes a similar voyage in future, Taiwanese forces should take advantage of its presence to conduct simulated attacks against the Liaoning, raising their own readiness, and demonstrating the reality that the Liaoning is vulnerable under wartime conditions.

Finally, the public in Taiwan and Japan needs to know that it is wartime military capability, not peacetime operations, that deters a potential aggressor like China from taking action to enforce the claims it makes on Taiwanese and Japanese territory.

Chinese operations in peacetime near Taiwan and Japan are gunboat diplomacy, intended to intimidate and to cause concessions without conflict. Taiwanese and Japanese citizens need to understand that it is the capability of their defense forces to defeat Chinese aggression in wartime that provides the ultimate protection for their sovereignty and independence.
 
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