Japan to officially sell weapons to Malaysia
tanahairdefence.blogspot.com In an interesting development, Japan will approve the law for arms exports to 12 countries that has official defence pacts with Japan. This will take into effect starting on march 2023. With this law, Japan is allowed to export lethal weapons such as missiles, firearms, fighter jets, etc. This is a major shift in Japanese law which previously only allow non-lethal equipments such as patrol vessels, surveillance equipment (radar), rescue, transport trucks etc. to be exported. Mitsubishi F-2 Fighter with ASM-3A Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile Malaysia and Japan signed the Japan-Malaysia Defence Pact in September 2018. Since then Japan has offered to sell or transfer to Malaysia the J/FPS-3 air-defence radar and P-3C Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft. Non-lethal equipment that has been passed to Malaysia includes two used Offshore Patrol Vessel to MMEA, a training ship to MMEA and speed boats to Marine Police. With the inclusion of Malaysia in this new...