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Defense and security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States opens talks with Japan and Canada on security matters

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/202...s_3865041/

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Destroyers, aircraft carriers, submarines and fighters: Japan enters 'super Saiyan' mode

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces have completed the modification of the DDH-184 Kaga helicopter destroyer - a euphemism for an aircraft carrier - to operate F-35B aircraft.

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Watching the Kaga, with its rising sun flag , operate fighter jets immediately conjures up images of World War II. The ship inherited the name of the famous aircraft carrier that participated and was sunk in the Battle of Midway (1942). The symbolic load is not accidental.

In addition, Tokyo also recently announced the success of the latest tests carried out by Lockheed Martin of the AN/SPY-7(v)1 radar , a model that will be carried by the new Japanese destroyers equipped with the Aegis air defense system . During the last tests, the potential of the AN/SPY-7(v)1 to detect special objects was tested. 

Japan intends for these new ships to have the capacity to detect and confront ballistic missiles . These will be two ambitious 12,000-ton destroyers that follow the current trend of aspiring to build increasingly larger combat ships (overcoming the 10,000-ton barrier).

The so-called Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade was created in 2018 (also the first amphibious assault unit of the Japanese armed forces since World War II) and its objective is to be able to project Japanese power to the remote places of the archipelago, especially those islands and islets whose sovereignty is disputed by third countries .

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/202...s_3864368/