Mogami was built to push treaty limits, engineered for speed and heavy firepower, then repeatedly punished by design problems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan has secured its biggest arms export deal ever through its new Mogami-class frigate. The $6.5 billion sale will see Australia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Japanese navy’s in-service Mogami-class frigates. Australia is procuring a larger, upgraded version. (Gordon Arthur) ...

Tokyo is rapidly acquiring missile-laden combat frigates to counter China and Russia in the East China Sea and the broader Indo-Pacific theater. MHI launched Nagara, the tenth Mogami-class frigate on ...

The first frigate is slated for delivery to the RAN in 2029; it will enter service the following year. After spending most of its post-World War II existence pursuing a pacifist foreign policy, Japan ...

January 31, 2026: At the end of 2025, Japan launched the twelfth and last of the Mogami-class frigates. Until 2023 Japan planned to build 24 new FFM Mogami class missile frigates, to be procured in ...

The JMSDF's second Mogami-class frigate, JS Kumano , seen here while it was at Changi Naval Base for IMDEX 2023. (Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat) A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Mogami-class frigate ...

The JMSDF's second Mogami-class frigate, JS Kumano, seen here while it was at Changi Naval Base for IMDEX 2023. (Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat) In a bid to improve the Mogami class's anti-submarine warfare ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Australia said Tuesday it accepted a Japanese company's bid for a lucrative and hotly contested contract to build Australian warships, expected to be worth 10 billion ...