Japan flies specialized rescue aircraft in multinational Pacific drill

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Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are participating in Balikatan 26, the U.S.-Philippine hosted multinational exercise, and the capabilities they brought to the training reflect a force increasingly oriented toward the kind of joint, combined operations that the Indo-Pacific security environment demands. The Japan Joint Staff released imagery showing the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s US-2 amphibious aircraft conducting []