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The Japanese Defense Ministry plans to test lasers. The fact is that the Japanese military intends to adopt laser systems to counter drones.
This was reported in the newspaper The Japan Times, citing sources.
It is planned to equip vehicles of the Land Self-Defense Forces of Japan with laser devices, including for high mobility vehicles. The military plans to test the degree of responsiveness of such systems.
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- said the representative of the defense department.
In March, the Japanese Ministry of Defense signed a contract with Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the purchase of lasers for installation on high-mobility vehicles in the amount of about 1.5 billion yen (approximately 850 million rubles). In addition, a deal for 1.9 billion yen (about 1.1 billion rubles) took place at the same time. for the purchase of lasers for trucks between the Japanese Defense Ministry and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
A month earlier, the Japanese Ministry of Defense signed a contract with Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions for the purchase of a radar system that will be used to detect unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Japanese military could not help but pay attention to the sharp intensification of the use of drones during the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict. And, of course, they note the significant successes of the Russian defense industry in the development and implementation of UAV countermeasures.
