The Western Air Command Support Squadron (西部航空方面隊司令部支援飛行隊, seibu-kōkūhōmentai-shireibu-shien-hikō-tai) is a squadron of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force...
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Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Japanese: 航空自衛隊, Hepburn: Kōkū Jieitai), JASDF (空自, Kūji), also referred to as the Japanese Air Force, is the air and space...
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Yokota Air Base (横田飛行場, Yokota Hikōjō), (IATA: OKO, ICAO: RJTY) is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base in the...
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2018: F-15C from the 44th Fighter Squadron crashed into the sea off Okinawa. The pilot was rescued by the JASDF Air Rescue Wing Naha Detachment. 9 June...
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Misawa Air Base (三沢飛行場, Misawa Hikōjō) (IATA: MSJ, ICAO: RJSM) is an air base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), the United States Air Force...
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Japan Air Self-Defense Force As of March 2022, the JASDF operated 91 F-2. Air Defense Command Central Air Defense Force 7th Air Wing, Hyakuri Air Base...
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conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Its sole operator is the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), in part due to historic restrictions on the exporting of military...
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Airlift Squadron (CH-47J) 春日基地. mod.go.jp. Ministry of Defense, Japan. Retrieved October 31, 2017. (in Japanese) 西部航空方面隊. Air Defense Command (ADC), JASDF. Archived...
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North American F-86 Sabre (section Pakistan Air Force)
under license 1956–1961, and were assigned to 10 fighter hikōtai or squadrons. JASDF called F-86F the "Kyokukō" (旭光, Rising Sunbeam) and F-86D the "Gekkō"...
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Eurofighter Typhoon (section Air to air)
forces hosted by the JASDF. On 14 December 2017, it was announced No. 12 (B) Squadron would stand as a joint RAF/Qatari Air Force squadron, with the Qatari...
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Iruma Air Base (入間基地, Iruma-kichi) (ICAO: RJTJ) is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) base located in the city of Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, north...
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Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (redirect from U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor)
Japanese government also showed interest in the F-22. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) would reportedly require fewer fighters for its mission if...
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fought in the Korean War—and aircraft of the Communist squadron. Mitsubishi F-86F Sabres of the JASDF regularly appear in the Showa era of kaiju films produced...
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Red Flag – Alaska (category United States Air Force exercises)
Eielson's 5055th Range Squadron, to become the 353d Combat Training Squadron in 1993, already maintained and operated three major military air-to-ground training...
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People's Liberation Army Navy (category Theater Command grade units of the Armed Forces of China)
incursions were recorded. From April to December, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled fighters 160 times in response to Chinese aircraft...
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Military organization (redirect from Air force organization)
the formation between wings and the entire air command. Like the RAF, Canadian wings consist of squadrons. A task force is a unit or formation created...
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and January 17, 2004, after an advance team from the Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces (JASDF) assessed the security situation in Samawah in late December...
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VAQ-138 (redirect from Electronic Attack Squadron 138)
Squadron 138 (VAQ-138), also known as the "Yellow Jackets", is an expeditionary EA-18G Growler squadron of the United States Navy based at Naval Air Station...
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Support Squadron: ATS-4202 Kurobe; ATS-4203 Tenryu; (Kure) Fleet Training Command (Yokosuka) Fleet Air Force Fleet Air Wing 1 (P-3C UH-60J) Fleet Air...
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all Nike Hercules missile sites were handed over to the JASDF. Battery B,8th Battalion,3rd Air Defense Brigade was located on the Chinen peninsula in southern...
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service 1981 with United States military. The helicopter was also used by the JASDF for many years. The CH-53E Super Stallion entered service in 1981 with the...
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Staff college (redirect from Armed Forces Command and Staff College)
College School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Air Command and Staff College Squadron Officer School Air Force Institute of Technology (Wright-Patterson...
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operations against "opposing" USAF and JASDF and Navy as ANNUALEX 01G. USS Antietam (CG-54) served as the "..Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator for her successive...
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Etajima) JASDF Officer Candidate School, Nara Joint Staff College JGSDF Training Evaluation Research and Development Command JMSDF Staff College JASDF Staff...
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July 1984, and first entered service on 24 November 1989 to the JASDF 306th Squadron. It was fitted the smaller and more lightweight AN/APG-66J pulse...
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Straits, "Autumn Flower", air defense exercises with the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) and the United States Fifth Air Force. On 7 November, America...
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the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). The differences between the CH-47J and the CH-47D are the...
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that the initial squadron would be delayed until 2017. On 11 September 2009, Air Marshall Mark Binskin said that a fourth squadron of F-35s for the RAAF...
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Operation Tomodachi (section Bases and commands)
in some manner in Operation Tomodachi. Yokota Air Base in Fussa, western Tokyo, is the operational command center, and furthermore functions as the aviation...
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Air Proving Ground, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, in mid-June 1950, for suitability tests as an advanced trainer by the 3200th Fighter Test Squadron...
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