Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mogami class is capable of everything from surveillance to minesweeping operations as well as anti-surface, anti-air, and anti ...

Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) announced on 22 May that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has taken delivery of its ...

Wellington plans to increase defence spending to about 2 per cent of gross domestic product, citing rising geopolitical tensions.

As the Japanese authorities and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) await an announcement from Australia regarding the success or otherwise of its Improved Mogami-class frigate offering, the Japan ...

Australia and Japan signed contracts on Saturday to deliver the first three of a 10 billion Australian dollar ($6.5 billion) fleet of Japanese-designed warships, with the first due for delivery in ...

There remain modern proponents of battleships who argue that the U.S. Navy should return its old Iowa-class warships to service. Yet apart from Russia’s antiquated battlecruisers, no nation on the ...

A state-of-the-art Japanese warship has arrived in Australia as part of a high-stakes campaign to secure a $6.5 billion ...

Japan has officially commissioned the JS Natori, the ninth Mogami-class frigate, into the country’s Maritime Self-Defense ...

Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded a contract by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to provide SeaRAM ship self-defense ...

There are three major reasons why the upgraded Mogami-class frigate was selected, in a major milestone for Japan's defense industry. Tokyo is rapidly acquiring missile-laden combat frigates to counter ...

The JMSDF commissioned JS Kumano, the first of a planned fleet of 22 Mogami-class multirole frigates, in a ceremony held on March 22 in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan. Credit: Mitsubishi Heavy ...

JS Mogami seen here at an International Fleet Review commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force at Sagami Bay. (Issei Kato – Pool/Getty Images) In ...