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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Also searchable as Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force, Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, JMSDF.

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  1. Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?
    0:10Dating the Mogami programme from 2015Chapter
  2. Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?
    11:01Mogami within Japan's three escort tiersChapter
  3. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:09:37Japanese destroyers beyond their Arleigh Burke ancestryNotable Point
  4. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:02:36The conventional submarine fleets least welcome as opponentsQ&A
  5. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    10:59Asahi destroyers, European frigates and Japan's mixed fleetQ&A
  6. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    37:15Japan's Aegis vessels and a possible second batchQ&A
  7. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:14:47Japanese Aegis ship names and classificationQ&A
  8. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    33:02Helicopter frigates and Japan's interest in sea-control shipsQ&A
  9. Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs
    39:30Mogami's path from compact destroyer to light frigateChapter
  10. Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs
    43:51Japan's iterative route to domestic anti-ship missilesNotable Point
  11. Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs
    50:20Mogami supplies mass in Japan's high-low fleet mixChapter
  12. ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future
    15:01Testing the US-2 and replacing the US-1AChapter
  13. ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future
    16:50The US-2's rescue crew and in-flight medical careNotable Point
  14. ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future
    27:05The 2015 loss and the US-2's routine workChapter
  15. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:23:12What Japan's UNICORN integrated mast actually containsQ&A
  16. Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century
    5:10Japan's escort terminology explains its maritime screening strategyChapter
  17. How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...
    41:14Why German and Japanese warship labels differNotable Point
  18. SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 1
    12:40International H-60 derivatives and the limits of commonalityNotable Point
  19. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:45:47A Japanese-style construction cycle for the Royal NavyQ&A
  20. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:53:46How Japan could stretch the destroyer label beyond IzumoQ&A
  21. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:57:16Ship construction and support infrastructure in Japan, Italy, and ChinaQ&A
  22. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:26:29Choosing a conventional submarine for ocean operationsQ&A
  23. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:42:31A surviving Yamato discovered by the JMSDFQ&A
  24. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:23:34Refitting Katsuragi for the early JMSDFQ&A
  25. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    3:15:52Why Britain and Japan need different frigate hullsQ&A
  26. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    4:03:32Ship numbers and carrier tonnage give different comparisonsNotable Point
  27. Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start
    13:33How different navies embody fleet identityQ&A
  28. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:19:56Comparing naval task groups and their supportNotable Point
  29. Navy Food: A Beginning
    17:56Japanese ship curry and crew identityNotable Point
  30. The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series
    6:08Japan seeks more fleet lethality without more personnelNotable Point
  31. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    9:29How shipboard food becomes a naval traditionNotable Point
  32. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    7:35:06Uncertainty over outside intervention in a Taiwan blockadeQ&A
  33. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    7:52:43What VLS adds to the Mogami frigateQ&A
  34. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    7:18:45Why the JMSDF still operates flying boatsQ&A
  35. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    8:02:05Would an international Invincible fleet make the 2010 disposal harder?Q&A
  36. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    3:59:46Why the United States is unlikely to abandon the Indo-PacificQ&A
  37. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    9:08:24Why Japan adopted Aegis destroyersQ&A
  38. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    9:10:42Why Cold War JMSDF destroyers retained two forward gunsQ&A
  39. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    55:17Modernizing Shokaku and Zuikaku for F-35B operationsQ&A
  40. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:05Japanese carrier development after the Izumo classQ&A
  41. Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!
    34:12Katsuragi survived to become a repatriation shipChapter
  42. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    42:11How ship-girl imagery enters Japanese naval public cultureNotable Point
  43. Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?
    37:59Railguns and lasers strengthen the power-density caseChapter
  44. Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?
    40:02Japan weighs nuclear power against historical experienceNotable Point
  45. Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:32:09Japan's possible move toward LHDs and another carrier classQ&A
  46. Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:39:17Japan's defense posture combines peace with preparednessQ&A
  47. Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:22:34The JMSDF appears more conflict-ready than European fleetsQ&A
  48. #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 25 Kure & JMSF Kaga
    0:00Kure waterfront: JS Kaga and the Yamato MuseumNotable Point
  49. Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    51:03What Japanese naval bases reveal about readinessNotable Point
  50. Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?
    0:00Why Japan calls the Izumo a destroyerChapter
  51. Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?
    22:16Kaga as an instrument of naval diplomacyChapter
  52. Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?
    45:19Alliances work like insurance only when members investNotable Point
  53. Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:55:23How Japanese warships inherit and evolve curry recipesQ&A
  54. Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...
    22:34Why Britain and Japan diverged in maritime force structureNotable Point
  55. Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?
    32:01How Maya fits Japan's graduated escort forceChapter
  56. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:41:10Why Japan funds more escorts than BritainQ&A
  57. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:55:51A Philippine order for Abukuma-class escortsQ&A
  58. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:04:53Naming an expanded Japanese destroyer-escort classQ&A
  59. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)
    3:42Modern Kongō versus the battlecruiser KongōQ&A
  60. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:52:06Japan's attainable path to a shipboard railgunNotable Point
  61. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:26:26The Japanese reuse of the name YukikazeQ&A
  62. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:17:17What eleven Abukuma-class escorts would have addedQ&A
  63. Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:31:27What earlier electric propulsion could offer the JMSDFQ&A
  64. Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:11The Thousand-Ship Navy as an allied fleetNotable Point
  65. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    2:20:44Could military seaplanes return today?Q&A
  66. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:56:03Japan's F-35B ships as aviation escortsNotable Point
  67. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    3:26:21Unfinished Japanese destroyers were poor foundations for postwar escortsQ&A
  68. The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin
    12:10A growing and varied world fleet of flight decksChapter
  69. The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin
    46:20How helicopter carriers serve national maritime rolesChapter
  70. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    2:47:19The Shirane class as Japan's aviation stepping stoneQ&A
  71. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    59:51Japanese Aegis cruisers and a new size competitionQ&A
  72. Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 1938
    3:20:14Funding both JMSDF destroyer purchasesQ&A
  73. Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 1938
    3:20:27Would combined steam-and-gas turbo-electric propulsion persist?Q&A
  74. Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off
    2:16:04The JMSDF prefect title and allied practiceQ&A
  75. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    16:47Yonai gives Japan an old-alliance optionChapter
  76. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    2:11:55F-35B strike aviation across several naviesQ&A
  77. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    2:24:15Gun choice for early JMSDF destroyersQ&A
  78. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    1:10:26Haruna-class retention for earthquake reliefQ&A
  79. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?
    2:34:38Why Japan did not immediately reuse the name MikasaQ&A
  80. Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer
    2:22:17Where military seaplanes still offer valueQ&A
  81. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:21:46Japan's helicopter destroyers as a path back to carriersNotable Point
  82. Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'
    1:32:09Izumo's shift from helicopter destroyer to light carrierQ&A
  83. Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'
    2:29:57Why Japan's next carriers could become much largerNotable Point
  84. Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...
    3:36:26Japan's large destroyers replace Aegis AshoreNotable Point
  85. Sverdlov Class: Comment Response
    11:34How a Soviet fleet in being could help NATO concentrateQ&A
  86. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 2
    2:05:22Japan's proposed 20,000-ton destroyersQ&A
  87. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    45:14Which modern navies approach true-blue-water reachQ&A
  88. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy
    2:40:43Why Japan's shipyards do not immediately yield a supercarrierQ&A
  89. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    3:10:51World Naval Review 2022 and the spread of carrier naviesChapter
  90. Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat
    4:10:58The JMSDF's strength and logistics limitQ&A
  91. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)
    2:47:57Japan's compact frigates as a task-group screenQ&A
  92. Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?
    2:49:28How Japan could release American strength for the AtlanticQ&A
  93. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    4:03:22Why Japan might seek a newer carrier design than Queen ElizabethQ&A
  94. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    1:47:03Radar shaping and modern Japanese destroyer aestheticsQ&A
  95. Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A
    38:07Japan's navy beyond a regional roleQ&A
  96. Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A
    41:56The local navies that matter in the South China SeaQ&A
  97. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A
    24:22Japan's helicopter destroyers become aircraft carriers in practiceQ&A