Tag: Japan

The JMSDF Retires the U-36A After 37 Years of Service

The U-36A, one of the JMSDF’s most secretive assets, conducted its last…

F-35s Take Over Rotational U.S. Marine Corps Deployments to MCAS Iwakuni

VMFA-214’s F-35s have deployed to Japan in place of long-running F/A-18 Hornet…

U.S. Approves Standard Missile-6 Sale for Japan’s Aegis Destroyers

While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other…

U.S. Approves Japan’s Purchase of More AGM-158 JASSMs in $39 Million Deal

After the acquisition of 50 AGM-158B JASSM-ER missiles last year, Japan has…

Some of the Old, Some of the New: Boeing’s P-26 “Peashooter”

The first all-metal low-wing monoplane pursuit aircraft of the United States Army…