On Jan. 30, 2025, JASDF’s Iruma Air Base revealed a brand-new commemorative livery on their official X account, applied to the second Kawasaki C-1 ever produced, the aircraft with serial number ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said ...

The T-6 Texan II, reportedly in a customized T-6JP variant, will be used by the JASDF as its new primary trainer to replace the license-built T-34 derivatives employed so far. Japan has selected ...

Japan's Air Force, or the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has a hangar of formidable aircraft at its disposal. Its main fighter aircraft is the F-15J, an American F-15 Eagle that's been ...

It doesn’t help that the JASDF is replacing half of the F-15s—plus other fighter types—with around 160 new F-35s. And the F-35 isn’t exactly suited to alert duty.

Following a series of discussions, JASDF officials visited the IFTS location at Italy’s Lecce-Galatina air base in September 2020, and saw at first hand Leonardo’s integrated training system ...

The purchase of the F-35 should give the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) next-generation intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance performance, but upgrades to Japan's F-2 and F-15 fleets ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has been using the T-4 as an intermediate trainer jet since 1988, but now the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has invited companies to ...

The JASDF also fields the Mitsubishi F-2, a design that most resembles an upgraded F-16 with some stealth features. The F-2 also has a larger engine intake, the first combat operational AESA radar ...

Images provided by the JASDF show that the UAV still bears temporary US Air Force markings. The delivery comes nearly a year after Northrop flew Japan’s first RQ-4B in April 2021.

On 1 October, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) accepted its first RC-2 aircraft from Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), this being a special version of the C-2 transport aircraft that is fitted ...