Japan’s government has announced its tiny army will be scrapping a third of its tanks and artillery, whilst requesting a billion dollars to deploy Patriot anti-ballistic missiles “nationwide,” despite the fact that the system only has a range of 20km.
The newly announced National Defence Program Outline stipulates a reduction in the number of Japan’s tanks from about 600 to 400 and a reduction in its artillery pieces from around 600 to 400.
The cuts will however be accompanied by expansion in other areas – most notably the “nationwide deployment” of Patriot “PAC-3” anti-ballistic missile systems at a cost of 1.1 billion dollars, which have so far only deployed batteries in the Kanto, Kinki, Kyushu and Chubu regions.
Japan’s navy will also be upgraded – 2 of its AEGIS cruisers will be upgraded to be able to shoot down ballistic missiles, in addition to the 4 it has which are already capable of this. In addition, Japan intends to increase the size of its submarine fleet from 16 to 22.
Coming not long after China’s efforts to grab the Senkaku islands amidst an ongoing military buildup, North Korea’s shelling of South Korea and nuclear missile program, and Russia’s efforts to legitimise its occupation of the Northern Territories, concerns have been expressed that as a nation surrounded by aggressive dictatorships Japan is hardly in a position to be stripping its already outgunned and outdated army of what few weapons it has.
Japan does however have a large and extremely modern navy – presumably defence planners reason that with finite resources they are best off ensuring nobody is ever in a position to set foot on Japanese soil and fight its pathetic army. An army is also much easier to expand than a navy.
The “nationwide deployment” of the PAC-3 system has already been derided as little more than propaganda – the system only has a range of 20km (a fact strangely missing from media reports on the announcement), and some question its effectiveness altogether.
The expense of defending all Japanese cities, let alone the entire nation, with such a system would be vast – nuclear deterrence still appears to be the only viable strategy for countering such a threat.
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All this to hide the news from their Gundam division.
The should have the moe mascots painted across the side of the PAC-3, so when it shot something down it would have been MOEEE down.
RX Gundam doesn't have the armament to take down all those North Korean and Chinese nukes and mortar and missiles.
Cleary, they need the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam.
Or better yet, the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam. It has a bazillion laser cannons and plasma bursts!
If they strike freedoms they're gonna need Archangel batteships.
Minerva was a great space warship too
Yeah it was, but archangel has not One but TWO BIG GUNS(Gottfried). :)
Wombat, Helldart, Gottfried....
撃って~ (Fire!)
Epilogue:
"And with that, the great war had ended with minimal casualties on both sides, preventing a pro-longed war which would have lasted....."
....eh? It's over?
Strike Freedom + Meteor Unit will be epic
How about some Hyper Burst to rip apart Kim Jong-Il's face?
And possibly Raiser Sword China's President too.
why using all these weapons? just get 00Q trough a time hole made by its quantum drive and brainwash everyone on earth using shiny particles
I'm happy only with the GN-0000 00 Gundam with its 0 Raiser with Trans-Am Burst Mode... Using that badass beam to blow all incoming missiles. Sure, it'd be only one beam, while the Strike Freedom would spam the skies with its own, but it'd be hillarious to be able to listen to North Korean commanders go batshit insane when their missiles got intercepted by a huge ass beam.
North Korean Commander: "The Dear Leader isn't going to be happy"
Gundam Pilot: "TROLOLOLOLOLOL"
not to mention that they have the GENESIS hidden on the far side of the moon...
Yes the RX-78-2 gundam they built was a display item.
Agreed. And the Real Grades, proto-recon machines.
Stage 1: Proto-type Gundam and Evangelion done
Stage 2: Mass produce them underground..
They're building the Gundams out of the tanks & artillery.
All we need is a declaration of war, and you'll see the
RX-78's eyes in Shizuoka gleeming a different color...
Prefer GFF Full Armor Unicorn Gundam with it's fucktastic armaments and bulky ass-thrusters... =D
just upgrade the AEGIS to a little blonde android with the name AIGIS and a persona! yay!
Yeah It's SUPER DUPER HYPER AWESOME.
Fullarmor = extra shit all over...BEAUTIFUL!
RX-0 Unicorn is my fav.
and probably make a Destroy Gundam too
Wing and the others are awesome but RX-78 is still the best for me
One fishing boat = military move to grab the island YESSS
and me jizzing into tissue paper is impregnating all the women in the world!
I think the real ulterior truth is that the entire island is going to become a floating fortress like Fafnar, with the stealth system and everything.
I feel like Japan probably doesn't see them selves fighting anyone anytime soon. They have their own internal problems they kind of need to sort before they go off fighting other country's.
I'm all for a Canada stance esq. Japan.
Dont forget the next phase: Uchuu Senkan Yamato .
those Gundams on display outdoors...
I'm imagining the day where Amuro Ray
climb up the RX-78(2) like ep 1
All hail Britania .... All hail Nort Korea :) hehe
Maybe they're hoping a timely typhoon will save them from foreign invaders. Ya know, like it usually does.
But the Mongolians aren't really in shape to invade anybody, they haven't been for centuries.
Anyway, Japan is already a puppet and a satellite of the US so they really do not need an army of their own, the Americans will fight any wars for them.
and lose trillions more in the process...
So... Japan's scrapping some of their land force to bolster their navy. Seems like the latter would be more useful.
Why they're building superfluous non-Gundam forces is beyond me, though. Maybe international treaties only allow so many Gundam near the solar elevator?
Not only Gundams, there are Variable Fighters, Wanzers and all kinds of Super Robots capable of destroying anything - be it humanity or the universe itself.
All I want for Christmas is a GU-N-DAM, a WA-N-ZER,
an E-VA too~♪
The elves at the north pole are in for now with that wish. :3
It's more then apparent the U.S. basically running Japan and signing deals to protect them is the only real deterrent to countries like Korea/China/Russia..
It's not like any of this matters..
Their "Project Macross", and "Gundam" devisions have probably become operational. Who needs tanks when you got those?
Don't forget all those Super Robot War one's
Japan knows Miku will rule the earth, no need for weapons under her command. ^^
We will have MIKU Gundams.
and MIKU Sabers
Miku LEEK Sabers, please...
They've also got an EVA division
but China is building their own
But that's just shit.
it would be a battle of Quality vs Quantity
but i don't want to pilot a chinese gundamn which break after 3 uses ( only if the pilot seat didn blow up my ASS first )
More like 20 chinese Gundams will be shot down by 1 japanese Gundam.
You do realize it's treason to enlist to a foreign army?
@kamiru
there was a company at the anime expo that was building a pilot-able mech frame. I can't recall the name but that could have been it, and if so, FUCK YES!
time to enlist in the Japanese army
@Jaden
There are no traitors among the winners. And besides, you can enlist in another country's armed forces if you give up your nationality and they are willing to accept you, at least as far as international law goes.
It'll be decided on navy and airstrike war, isn't it ? because of 'small' army Japan has so it should reinforce other military aspect.. I wonder if it's even is effective against two nearest countries
Now is not the time for common sense dammit!
Japanese Foreign Legion then?
@pertamax "only if the pilot seat didn't blow up my ASS first" self-destruct is always activated.
Those 20 chinese gundams won't even make it to the front lines, let alone move.....
i sure hope my japanese friend was joking when he said his dad work for the Anaheim Electronics developing psycho frames.
Damn i had to google up what "equivalent statements" meant. It made me sad face.
You do realize those are equivalent statements, right?
20 chinese Gundams is worth 1 japanese Gundam.
You mean junkdam?
the only thing keeping all the neighboring countries at bay is fear of the potential leek probing and tentacle reap they'll receive once they touch land on Japan :)