Tagged: #security-assistance

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Philippine Navy to choose sites for Japan's first donated defence radar as air force gets drones

Japan's largest security aid grant yet gives the Philippine Navy a coastal radar and the air force surveillance drones, and the navy is now weighing where to put the radar.

TaiwanDefence · 23m ago · 2 min read

Two grey naval patrol craft, a small boat and a helicopter over choppy dark sea under a partly cloudy sky

Indo-Pacific

Japan to give Sri Lanka's navy 25 surveillance boats under its security aid programme

Tokyo's second Official Security Assistance grant to Colombo, worth 1 billion yen, follows last year's drones and targets coastal patrols on Indian Ocean sea lanes.

TaiwanDefence · 14h ago · 2 min read

A Vietnamese general in green uniform and a Japanese official in a dark suit each hold up an open signed document in front of Vietnamese and Japanese flags while two men applaud behind them

Indo-Pacific

Japan and Vietnam agree to study security aid for Vietnam's UN peacekeepers as defence chiefs meet in Tokyo

A joint statement after Takaichi's talks with To Lam opens the way for Japanese security assistance to Vietnam's military, with 2+2 talks set for December.

TaiwanDefence · 1d ago · 3 min read

Five officials stand behind a signing table in front of the Philippine presidential seal, two of them holding signed documents, with small Japanese and Philippine flags on the table

Indo-Pacific

Japan signs deal to give the Philippine military a coastal radar and surveillance drones

Tokyo's 4.3 billion yen aid package sends a coastal radar to the Philippine Navy and surveillance drones to the Philippine Air Force.

TaiwanDefence · 1d ago · 3 min read

Two grey Royal Malaysian Navy patrol ships moored side by side at a naval base pier

Indo-Pacific

Malaysia will place its Japanese-supplied counter-drone systems at Sepanggar and Labuan

Defence minister Khaled Nordin says the anti-drone equipment Japan is giving the navy will guard key bases in Sabah and Labuan facing the South China Sea.

TaiwanDefence · 25 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

A line of grey warships sailing in formation across open sea under a hazy sky

Indo-Pacific

Japan signs a deal to give Malaysia's navy a counter-drone system worth 1.65 billion yen

The grant under Japan's Official Security Assistance programme is the first to supply a counter-drone system and is meant to boost Malaysian sea-lane surveillance.

TaiwanDefence · 21 Oct 2026 · 3 min read