So they decided to develop a wheeled tank destroyer on an 8×8 chassis equipped with a 105 mm gun. Deploying an army along with tanks to their islands away from the mainland would take at least a week as the tanks could be transported only in landing ships or ferries. The Japanese military realized that their fleet of 700+ tanks wouldn’t be of much use in case one of their hostile neighbors invaded some of their islands. Mobility and firepower are the key when it comes to defending an island nation like Japan which has several major islands and hundreds of smaller ones. I’m pretty sure nobody would have heard of a majority of the weapon systems I am going to cover in this list. Since Japan is basically a collection of islands, they have given priority to their Navy and Air Force, and many of their deadliest weapons are used by their Navy or the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force as they call themselves. Their defense industry designs and manufactures a wide variety of weapons ranging from tanks to submarines. They also have a habit of locally upgrading equipment imported from the US and making them far better than the original. If given free access to the world’s defense markets by its government, Japan could very well become the third largest military exporter within a decade and compete neck to neck with the US and Russia in the market within 2 decades.Ĭurrently, since the export ban has been lifted, they supply critical missile components to the US and UK. This didn’t make much sense in the modern world, and slowly the restrictions on military equipment exports are being relaxed. The reason that Japanese weapons aren’t popular around the world is because they aren’t allowed to export combat equipment according to their self-imposed arms export ban. Robotics and electronics are the main fields which are dominating today’s defense industries, and since Japan has an extremely strong base in them, they are able to produce top quality weapons which are never highlighted by the western media. But when we talk about military equipment, hardly anyone mentions Japan. When we talk about top quality electronics and robotics, Japan is the first country which comes to our mind.
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