An audit has revealed major sustainment challenges facing Japan’s Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft, which have reduced availability of the type. The report, produced by Japan’s Board of Audit — ...

The Japan MoD said that aircraft like the EP-3, the EW variant of the P-3C Orion, itself being replaced by the P-1 where it uses both the U.S.-origin planes, do ‘not meet the functions and performance ...

A Kawasaki P-1 patrol aircraft of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force launches anti-missile flares during a fleet review off Sagami Bay, Kanagawa prefecture, in 2015. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP via Getty ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: In 2014, Japan relaxed its rule on exporting military hardware, and began marketing the P-1 abroad—but so far the Poseidon has edged it out with contracts with New ...