Navy Sending Two Guam-Based MQ-4C Tritons to Japan for Temporary Operations
May 14, 2021 11:16 AM
200112-F-SX156-1006rANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (Jan. 12, 2020) An MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) taxis after landing at Andersen Air Force Base for a deployment as part of an early operational capability (EOC) to further develop the concept of operations and fleet learning associated with operating a high-altitude, long-endurance system in the maritime domain. Unmanned Patrol Squadron (VUP) 19, the first Triton UAS squadron, will operate and maintain two aircraft in Guam under Commander, Task Force (CTF) 72, the U.S. Navy’s lead for patrol, reconnaissance and surveillance forces in U.S. 7th Fleet. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ryan Brooks)
Japan ground troops begin joint military drill with U.S., France
Japan s ground troops began Tuesday a large-scale joint exercise with the United States and France for the first time on Japanese soil to increase cooperation in the face of China s growing assertiveness. ARC21 will be held through next Monday as Tokyo seeks to deepen defense cooperation beyond its U.S. ally with like-minded countries, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said ahead of the drill.
File photo shows Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel conducting an amphibious drill with the U.S. Marines in February 2020 at the Blue Beach training area in Kin, Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)
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Japan and the four countries it has held such talks with this year affirmed cooperation to realize a Free and Open Indo-Pacific region, an initiative advocated by Tokyo.
Taiwan and Japan Track China Warship Together in Apparent Team-up at Sea
On 5/4/21 at 6:38 AM EDT
Senior defense officials in Taiwan were coy about the country s military collaboration with Japan when quizzed on Monday about satellite imagery showing an apparent joint surveillance operation of a Chinese warship in the East China Sea.
Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told reporters that Taiwan was cooperating with a number of friendly parties but said he could not disclose information about specific departments.
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On Saturday, Japan s Defense Ministry said the People s Liberation Army (PLA) frigate
Binzhou had passed through the Miyako Strait into the Western Pacific the day before. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force later deployed an Abukuma-class destroyer escort and two maritime patrol aircraft as the single Chinese warship traveled north via the narrow waters between Taiwan and Yonaguni, Japan s westernmost inhabited island, which lies less than 70 miles from Taiw