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http://www.asiandefencenews.com/2014/11 ... o-buy.html
points towards
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/news/2014/11/21a.html
and
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/news/2014/11/21b.html
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and
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... 2F21b.html
Also:
http://www.mmogamesguide.info/japan-wil ... tor-china/
Japan’s Kyodo News November 20 informed that the Japanese Ministry of Defense selected the US defense industry giant Northrop Grumman’s E-2D “Advanced Hawkeye” as a new AWACS Air Self-Defense Force.
Kyodo said that to strengthen the “activities have become increasingly frequent in the East China Sea Chinese military” and other surveillance, the year 2017 will be the deployment of AWACS Naha base.
Acquisition costs have been included in the Japanese fiscal year 2015 budget, will eventually introduce four.
In addition, the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and endurance UAV has officially decided to introduce the MV-22 “Osprey” transport aircraft and the US “Global Hawk” unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
Japan’s defense ministry stated in the “mid-term defense force preparedness plans” in the year 2018 will introduce four new early warning aircraft, 3 and 17 endurance UAV VTOL aircraft, and conducted screening models.
Reported that, E-2D AWACS with another candidate models Boeing 737AEW & C compared to a smaller size,
although the latter is less than the distance and altitude in terms of endurance, but cheaper than half.
E-2D is empty since you are using the latest E-2C Series models, the use of more skilled at detecting targets and intelligence transmission capacity is also very good, the defense ministry to judge which is best suited for monitoring tasks Nancy Islands .
“Osprey” is the only candidate model VTOL aircraft. Japan’s defense ministry for the deployment of the aircraft at Saga airport has local request.
There is another candidate UAV models, but ultimately selected based on the performance of the “Global Hawk.”