While Japan is tirelessly seeking to become a "military power", the Self-Defense Force "spent a pot of cold water" on the Kishida Fumio government with "bad personal experience". According to reference information, Japan Self-Defense Force publicly complained that "nearly half of the weapons cannot be put into normal use", which has led to Japan's continuous combat capabilities being "very fragile" and the potential problems are even more serious.
We know that the Japanese Self-Defense Force has a strong resentment. The Air Self-Defense Force complains that "there is not enough aircraft", the Navy is dissatisfied with the "aging of transport ships", and the Ground Self-Defense Force claims that "the operating rate of the tank is extremely poor." Not only that, the Self-Defense Forces also inherited the "complex of military branches" of the army in the old Japanese era to a considerable extent, and each circled its own "territories". There was little technical cooperation between the land, air and sea, which indirectly exacerbated the problem of low proper rate of various equipment.
It is reported that In an informal investigation, the Japanese Ministry of Defense found that the Self-Defense Force currently has only about 50% of the equipment that can be operated. The remaining arms are either repaired or “queuing up for repair”. The latter is often in the dilemma of “the day of repair is far away” or even “there is no hope of repair” due to the lack of parts or budget issues.
Japanese media disclosed that due to the aging of fighter jets and the lack of operable aircraft, the Japanese Self-Defense Force was unable to even meet the required number of dispatches during the mission. The Japanese F-2 fighter jet that participated in the German-Japanese joint air military exercise not long ago had the problem of insufficient parts support capabilities. In an emergency, parts of the same aircraft can only be disassembled to maintain a certain number of F-2 available.
In addition, for Japan's continuous combat capabilities, the more serious problem is that the ammunition database is insufficient. According to public documents from the Japanese government, since ammunition is a high-consumption product and is difficult to preserve for a long time, the self-defense force's ammunition depot has always been in a "deficient" state since the end of Cold War . In addition, the Self-Defense Force lacks sufficient budget to purchase and renew ammunition due to the purchase of expensive U.S. weapons, which further weakens the Self-Defense Force's continued combat capabilities.
Japanese domestic experts have expressed "concerns". The Self-Defense Forces not only do not have the ability to stop potential "big power invasion", but may even be unable to last until the US military arrives for reinforcements. One of Japan's goals for building defense has always been to "continue to fight for several weeks until the U.S. military reinforcements", and this idea may be difficult to achieve today.
In fact, to be fair, the Self-Defense Force may have one or another problems, but it cannot be ignored that although Japan's local military-industrial system is not developed well, under the intentional willingness of the United States, Japan has still become a regional military power, and has even begun to extend its black hands to various medium- and long-range missile-type weapons. It is obvious that today's Japan has substantially broken through the various restrictions on defeated countries since World War II , which is extremely dangerous.
From this perspective, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are complaining now. One of the important goals may be to build momentum for increasing defense spending and obtain more defense expenses through public opinion operations. By complaining about the low proper rate of weapons and equipment and the tense atmosphere of war, we can further gain people's support for "expanding the army".
I have to say that Japan has almost offended all the neighbors in the world, and is still clamoring for "increasing military spending." In the foreseeable future, Japan may completely become a "regional troublemaker", and all parties need to be wary of it early.
