A, one of the JMSDF’s most secretive assets, conducted its last flight at Iwakuni Air Base and retired quietly on Mar. 10, 2025, after 37 years of ...

VMFA-214’s F-35s have deployed to Japan in place of long-running F/A-18 Hornet detachments, which reinforce the U.S. Marine ...

Two Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters that crashed and sank in the Pacific Ocean last year have been brought ashore. Several bodies were reportedly found in the wreckage salvaged earlier ...

Former Chief of Staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), retired Adm. Sakai Ryo joined the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School ...

One of the oldest ships in the Royal Navy fleet sailed from Portsmouth today in the Spring sunshine. HMS Ledbury, a ...

A statement posted on HMS Ledbury’s social media account said: “It was an honour to host JMSDF RAdm Hirata and ... guests during a tour of the naval base on Horsea Island - including ...

Share The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its fourth Awaji-class ... boat was inducted into the service’s Minesweeper Division 3 at the Kure naval base in Hiroshima Prefecture ...

A Maritime Self-Defense Force frigate has made a port call in Western Australia as Japan bids for a contract to build ...

The Mogami-class frigate Noshiro arrived at the HMAS Stirling naval base near Perth on Australia's west coast earlier this week, the Australian Defense Department confirmed Thursday. The vessel made a ...