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EVERETT, Washington, the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Earlier this week, 10th December 2018, Boeing revealed that the U.S. Air Force has exercised the option for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force’s second Boeing KC-46 tanker through the…

CANBERRA, Australia (BulgarianMilitary.com) - The Australian Department of Defence announced on Tuesday (4th December 2018) that the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) will deploy a C-130J Hercules transport aircraft to Guam for Operation…

SAN DIEGO/TOKYO (BulgarianMilitary.com) – The leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), is in search of establishing partnerships with defence industry suppliers…

TOKYO, Japan (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Airbus Helicopters announced last week on 29th November that the company will build a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) complex next to its existing facility in the Kobe Airport Facility, Japan,…

TOKYO, Japan (BulgarianMilitary.com) — As reported by a senior official with Japan’s F-35 program, Japan is on the way of boasting about its first F-35 operational unit after the graduation of its first locally trained class of five F-35…

WASHINGTON, the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com) - The upcoming scheduled Vigilant Ace 2018 allied joint military exercise has been cancelled and that decision was jointly approved by the U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and his South Korean…

SINGAPORE, Singapore, (BulgarianMilitary.com) - On 19 October, the Russian Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu arrived in Singapore for an official visit during which he held talks with the Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and attended the 5th…

WASHINGTON, the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com), 13 September 2018, Editor: Bm Team, Photo credit: MC2 Jon Dasbach, US Navy/The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Atago-class guided missile destroyer JS Atago departs Joint Base Pearl…

WASHINGTON, D.C., the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com), 11 September 2018, Editor: Galina Zdravkova, Photo credit: John Germana, Northrop Grumman/The first US Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye equipped with aerial refuelling. Japan may receive up to…

TOKYO, Japan (BulgarianMilitary.com), 1 August 2018, Editor: Galina Zdravkova, Photo credit: the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force The first of a new subclass of guided-missile destroyers with ballistic missile defence capabilities was…

Russia is concerned that Japan could be allowing Washington to use its territory as a base for the US military in north Asia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov furthered that the concern was that this was being initiated under the…

There is a term to describe the mindset of Japanese people who put so much faith in Japan’s peace constitution that they are complacent about security threats. They are said to suffer from heiwa-boke. With North Korea demonstrating…