JASDF

Tokyo wants long-range strike assets, but these demand the support of a robust intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance architecture.

Japan's defense build-up, including pursuit of a counter-strike capability, continues to require record-setting funds.

The drill continues a trend of Japan's expanding security links with European powers, while France looks to the Indo-Pacific.

The exercises, Veer Guardian 2023, mark a historic milestone in the two nation’s defense and security ties.

Spatial disorientation of pilots was the likely cause of the January F-15 crash, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force says.

The incident casts a shadow on the pace of Japan’s F-15 upgrade program.

More information about Japan’s next generation fighter concept has emerged.

From the outside, it may look a lot different than any other country’s fighter. On the inside, it may share crucial components with one or more international partners.

U.S. defense firm Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to build a F-35 maintenance repair and upgrade facility in Japan.

Pilot vertigo rather than a mechanical problem was the cause of the crash in April, according to a JASDF investigative report.

Japan scrambled fighter jets to escort the bombers, while South Korean aircraft fired warning shots against a Russian plane that reportedly violated the country's airspace.

The Japanese minister of defense officially confirmed the death of a pilot who went missing with his F-35A on April 9.

The Japanese government has stopped searching for a F-35A fighter aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean almost two months ago.

The U.S. Navy has officially ended its search for a missing Japanese F-35A Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter that crashed last month.

Part of the flight data recorder was recovered “on or after May 3,” according to Japan’s defense minister.

981 out of 999 scrambles were conducted against Chinese and Russian military aircraft.

A U.S. general says the wreckage has been found; other U.S. military spokespeople deny that.

US and Japanese search efforts are reportedly closing in on the wreckage of a crashed Japanese F-35A fighter jet.

Chinese military aircraft flew over the Bashi Channel and Miyako Strait on April 15 as part of a military exercise.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force confirmed that a missing F-35A has crashed.

Japan’s remaining fleet of 12 F-35As will remain grounded for the time being, according to the Japanese defense minister.

Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy Air Force aircraft conducted another incursion into the Miyako Strait on April 1.

Japan stood up its first operational F-35A fighter squadron, the 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, on March 29.

The Chinese PLAAF flew long-range bombers and fighter jets through the Miyako Strait on March 30.