22.12.2023, 21:23
Zitat:Japan Approves Record Defense Budget For Fiscal Year 2024https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...year-2024/
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on December 22 approved $55.9 billion (7.95 trillion yen) defense spending for fiscal year 2024, which starts in April, amid the increasingly tense security environment in the Indo-Pacific region. [...]
The draft budget will rise by a 16.5 percent, or $7.93 billion (1.13 trillion yen), from the current fiscal year. This marked yet another record figure for the tenth year in a row in the history of Japan’s national defense budget.
The draft budget, which is expected to be passed by Japan’s bicameral legislature in the coming months, calls for strengthening the nation’s integrated air and missile defense system and stand-off defense capabilities to address rising military threats posed by China, North Korea, and Russia.
Officials at the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) stressed at a press briefing on December 21 that despite the rapid depreciation of the yen and rising prices, there has been no reduction in the number of major weapons and equipment for FY2024, based on the Defense Buildup Program over the five-year period from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2027, which was drawn up in December last year. [...]
MoD has secured $2.6 billion (373.1 billion yen) for fiscal year 2024 to build two Aegis System Equipped Vessels (ASEV) as an alternative to the two land-based Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense (BMD) system, which was cancelled in June 2020 during the Shinzo Abe administration over concerns that falling components from missile interceptors might hit heavily populated areas over Japan. [...]
The defense ministry said it will acquire a total of 12 new FFMs that will succeed the Mogami-class FFM for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). It has earmarked $1.2 billion (174 billion yen) in next year’s budget for the construction of first two new FFMs, which are scheduled to be deployed in FY2028.
The defense ministry said the new-class FFM will be fitted with longer-range missiles, enhanced anti-submarine capabilities, and improved capabilities for various maritime operations.
Specifically, the ship-launched, improved version of the Type 12 SSM and the new ship-to-air guided missile (or simply A-SAM) will be equipped with the new-class FFM, defense officials said.
The MoD documents, released by the MoD on December 22, said the new-class FFM has a standard displacement of 4,800 tons, up from 4,500 tons, which was mentioned at the defense budget request on August 31.
Schneemann