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Japan's Air Power Tactical Communications Precision VOLUME 25/ISSUE 4 JUNE/JULY 2017 US$15 ASIA PAcific’s LARGEST CIRCULATED DEFENCE MAGAZINE ASIA-PACIFIC SUBMARINE MARKET BATTLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS UNITED NATIONS AIR OPERATIONS JAPAN’S AIR POWER TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS PRECISION GUIDED WEAPONS www.asianmilitaryreview.com INSIGHT IS THE ADVANTAGE TAKE COMMAND WITH HARRIS hC2™ Keep echelons connected, more informed, agile and safe. Choose Harris hC2 software suite for critical insights that give you the ultimate advantage. 02 | ASIAN MILITARY REVIEW | Contents JUNE/JULY 2017 VOLUME 25 / ISSUE 4 Sources of supply for precision guided air- launched weapons are diversifying away from 06 the United States, Beth Stevenson explains. Front Cover Photo: Fast jets have an enviable collection of precision guided weapons to choose from, the latter of which are examined in ALTERNATIVE this issues’ Alternative Options article. OPTIONS 28 36 44 Will The Sun Set 20 On Air Back In Rugged Care From The Air Superiority? Business Looks Good The United Nations is one of Justin Bronk takes the Beth Stevenson examines Battle management systems are the world’s largest operators of temperature of Japanese air the growing commercial and force multipliers, Andrew White freighters and helicopters. power, and finds the country defence links between Iran explains, and ever-popular in David Oliver explores the vital facing tough choices as it looks and the Asia-Pacific region. the Asia-Pacific. work that such aircraft perform. towards the future. 24 32 12 To The Lowest Echelon Periscope Depth Thomas Withington examines Dr. Alix Valenti discusses the the tactical radio market in the submarine market in the Asia-Pacific and finds international Asia-Pacific and discovers a vendors increasingly competing procurement race focused on Catch up on all the latest defence radio frequency news and with local providers. capabilities and fleet sizes. analysis in Thomas Withington’s regular Pulse column. | JUNE/JULY 2017 | 03 Index of Advertisers AERONAUTICS 11 Editorial AMR SHOW DAILY 37 BELL HELICOPTER 17 BOEING P8 COVER 4 THE CAUTIOUS BOEING V22 5 DSEI 43 HAWK DUBAI AIRSHOW 45 D & S THAILAND 47 hat Japan inhabits an increasingly restive EUROSATORY 49 neighbourhood is no secret. The country HARRIS COVER 2 is a missile-throw across the Sea of Japan IAI 9 from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; making this the geopolitical MOSCOW AIRSHOW COVER 3 Tequivalent of living next door to a biker gang. Meanwhile, the South and East China Seas NEXTER 19 regularly reverberate to the restless rattle of resplendent rapiers, as Beijing bullies and PACIFIC 41 belittles in a seemingly ceaseless mini Cold War waged against several of its neighbours, SINGAPORE AIRSHOW 39 near and far, for the control of maritime and territorial interests in these stretches of ocean. TEXTRON 13 Japan is barred from pursuing war as politics by other means, to paraphrase the Prussian UTC AEROSPACE 15 strategist Carl Von Clausewitz. This is the result of its hastily written constitution drafted in the wreckage of the Second World War’s aftermath by the victorious United States. Article Advertising Offices France/Spain Nine pledges the country to forever renounce the use of war and the maintenance of military Stephane de Remusat, REM International Tel: (33) 5 3427 0130 forces. Japan gets around the latter restriction by keeping ‘defence forces’; a navy, army and E-Mail: [email protected] air force in all but name, the latter of which comes under scrutiny in our Will the Sun Set on Germany Air Superiority? article in this issue. Yet these defence forces could finally be acknowledged Sam Baird, Whitehill Media Tel: (44-1883) 715 697 Mobile: (44-7770) 237 646 via a potential constitutional change. E-Mail: [email protected] Turkey / Eastern Europe / UK In early May, Shinzo Abe reiterated his wish for Article Nine to change, and to explicitly Zena Coupé Tel: +44 1923 852537, [email protected] refer to the existence of the country’s defence forces, so as to avoid any charge that their Nordic Countries/Italy/ Switzerland continued existence could be unconstitutional. He added that he would like to see this change Emanuela Castagnetti-Gillberg Tel: (46) 31 799 9028 enacted by 2020. Mr. Abe will have a fight on his hands: Two thirds of both of Japan’s E-Mail: [email protected] houses of parliament would need to back the change, as would a majority of the country’s Russia voters in a referendum. Since the end of the Second World War, Japan has maintained a Alla Butova, NOVO-Media Ltd, Tel/Fax: (7 3832) 180 885 Mobile : (7 960) 783 6653 strongly pacifist tradition in a significant part of its polity; any proposed change is likely to Email :[email protected] enrage this part of civil society. USA (East/South East)/Canada (East) Margie Brown, Blessall Media, LLC. Tel : (+1 540) 341 7581 Yet amending the constitution could send out an important message to foes and friends Email: [email protected] alike that Japan’s highly trained and enviably equipped defence forces are here to stay, USA (West/South West)/Brazil/Canada (West) Diane Obright, Blackrock Media Inc potentially having an important deterrent effect vis-à-vis future tensions in the country’s Tel : (+1 858) 759 3557 locale. Constitutions should be ‘rigidly pliable’; robust on one side to guarantee political Email: [email protected] stability while flexible enough to accommodate changing domestic and international trends. 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Airbus Helicopters ALTERNATIVEALTERNATIVE OPTIONSOPTIONS Whatever the political stance taken on the conduct of air strikes in Iraq and Syria, if they are going to be performed in the same fashion and to the same degree that they have been for almost three years now, reducing any risk posed to civilians is a must. by Beth Stevenson espite the use of the GBU- of-coalition governmental actions 43/B Massive Ordnance to increase regional stability,” Air Blast 21600 pounds/lb according to the mission’s website. (9800 kilogram/kg) weapon, Since Operation INHERENT or ‘Mother of All Bombs’ RESOLVE commenced on 15th as it was nicknamed by the media, by June 2014, both inhabited and Airbus Helicopters D Airbus Helicopters the US Air Force (USAF) to attack caves unmanned aircraft have been suspected to be used by ISIS (Islamic used to support the air campaign. State of Iraq and Syria) in the Achin While surveillance is very much district of eastern Afghanistan on 13th part of the mission, the ability to April, most air strikes against the Islamist perform effective attacks against militia have tended to involve far smaller ISIS is the ultimate aim.
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