Japanese Attack Helicopter Program Lives

Credit: AH-1S: Japanese Ministry of Defense
MELBOURNE, Australia—The Japanese Ministry of Defense is likely to move ahead with an attack helicopter acquisition in 2019, even though the program was left out of a five-year procurement plan published in December, an industry source said. The army sees the program as urgent in part because the...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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