Ground Self-Defense Forces take part in the Fuji Firepower 2016 Review (Demonstration) at Higashi-Fuji, near Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture. The annual exercise, which is open to the public, attracted over 26,000 visitors this year.
The exercises, called Fire Power, are aimed at defending outlying Japanese islands from a hypothetical invasion. Fire Power is a first-of-its-kind exercise and follows new national defense guidelines.
“There are two main purposes of this demonstration: One is to educate the JGSDF members, especially members of the Fuji School. The other is to help the citizens of Japan to better understand the role we play in the defense of our country” – 2nd Lt. Takashi Tomiyoshi, a public affairs officer assigned to the JSGDF Fuji School
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Very large crown gathered to watch Fuji Firepower Review (via)JGSDF during exercises (via)Display of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force – Armour (via)Type 74 Main Battle Tank at night (via)Type 10 Main Battle Tank firing at targets (via)Type 10 Main Battle Tank (via)Type 90 Main Battle Tanks – Kyū-maru (via)Type 74 Main Battle Tanks (via)Komatsu Light Armored Vehicle and FIM-92A Stinger (via)Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV (via)Type 96 Wheeled Armored Personnel Carrier (via)M110 Self-propelled Howitzer (via)Type 99 155 mm Self-propelled Howitzer (via)FH-70 Towed Howitzer (via)Multiple rocket launcher M270 MLRS (via)Kōkidōsha – military version Toyota Mega Cruiser (via)Type 03 Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (via)Pair of Type 87 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun (via)Military version of Toyota Mega Cruiser (via)Reconnaissance motorcycle Honda XLR250R (via)A pair of Type 87 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun, AH-64 Apache and OH-6D (via)Attack Boeing AH-64 Apache (via)Antitank Helicopter Bell AH-1S Cobra. Note the “Toe” anti-tank missile (via)Transport helicopter UH-60 Black Hawk (via)Transport helicopter Boeing CH-47 Chinook with Type 96 Heavy mortar (RT 120mm Mortar) (via)Scout helicopter OH-6D (via)
