The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its tenth Mogami-class frigate, JS Nagara (ながら), on June 29, 2026 ...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has officially commissioned JS Nagara (FFM-10), the tenth Mogami-class frigate, ...

Japan is looking to exports to revitalize its defense industry, strengthen regional deterrence against China and help meet ...

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 ...

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 ...

MHI launched Tatsuta, the 11th Mogami-class frigate on order for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), in a ceremony held at its facilities in Nagasaki, Japan, July 2, 2025. Credit: Takahashi ...

The Australian Government is accelerating the delivery of a larger and more lethal surface combatant fleet with the selection of the upgraded Japanese Mogami-class frigate as the preferred platform ...

The JMSDF's second Mogami-class frigate, JS Kumano , seen here during a stop in Singapore. Australia will acquire an improved variant of the warship for its general purpose frigate programme.