The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an artillery live-fire drill at the GSDF’s Higashifuji training site near Mt Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on Saturday. Photo: KYODO
Ground Self-Defense Force: Fuji General Fire Exercise!
– Osprey participates in Japan’s largest live-fire exercise –
Fuji General Fire Exercise:
On May 27th, Japan’s largest live-fire exercise was held by the Ground Self-Defense Force.
Develop night combat training, such as “identifying and attacking enemies with flares and night vision devices”.
It is held on the assumption that an enemy has invaded a remote island, and Osprey will participate following 2022.
In light of the “increasingly severe security environment,” the site will not be open to the public even after 2023.
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Eliminate enemies through land, sea, and air cooperation “obstacle handling” exercise
An AAV amphibious vehicle lands while hiding behind a smoke screen. Furthermore, the operation proceeds to a fire battle by the main force.
Transport plane Osprey also participates
Will it be effective in discouraging the use of force against Japan?
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Japan Self-Defense Force conducts large-scale live-fire drills
NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force
has held its annual live-fire exercises at the foot of Mount Fuji in central Japan.
Some 2,500 personnel
took part in the drills on Saturday at the GSDF’s Higashi-Fuji training camp in Shizuoka Prefecture.
The premise of the exercises was a supposed invasion of a remote Japanese island.
Reconnaissance personnel alighted from a helicopter and operated drones to surveil the surroundings.
They were followed by a rapid deployment brigade specializing in amphibious landing operations.
The brigade fired from combat vehicles and studied tactics to retake the island.
The live-fire exercises
have previously been open to the public, drawing more than 20,000 people every year.
But the viewings were canceled for the past three years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The GSDF has decided
to keep the present drills closed, despite a loosening of pandemic restrictions.
Officials cite the increasing severity of the security situation and the need for focus.
The officials say by the conclusion of the drills on Saturday night,
they will have consumed 57 tons of ammunition worth about 1.07 billion yen, or 7.6 million dollars.
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