{"id":40748,"date":"2025-04-08T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40748"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:15:38","slug":"the-u-s-navy-will-deploy-several-large-unmanned-reconnaissance-aircraft-at-kadena-base-in-japan-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40748","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Navy will deploy several large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at Kadena Base in Japan indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>According to Kyodo News, the Okinawa Defense Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Defense conveyed the message to the Okinawa Prefectural Government on the 8th that the US Navy will deploy several large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft MQ-4C Triton at Kadena Base indefinitely.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Okinawa Defense Bureau said the deployment would begin &#8220;within weeks&#8221; and was aimed at strengthening information collection, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in the southwest region, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240704\/1060224394.html\">The report said that the US temporarily used two Tritons at the base<\/a>&nbsp;from May to October last year&nbsp;, but this time no deadline has been set. According to a Japanese government official, the Tritons may arrive as early as this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to the data, the Triton drone is about 40 meters wide, 15 meters long, and has a range of about 15,000 kilometers. In Japan, the aircraft was temporarily deployed at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture and Iwakuni Air Base in Yamaguchi Prefecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250409\/1064908896.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Kyodo News, the Okinawa Defense Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Defense conveyed the message to the Okinawa Prefectural Government on the 8th that the US Navy will deploy several large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft MQ-4C Triton at Kadena Base indefinitely. The Okinawa Defense Bureau said the deployment would begin &#8220;within weeks&#8221; and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1705,1242,30519],"class_list":["post-40748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-defense","tag-navy","tag-okinawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40751,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40748\/revisions\/40751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}