The media learned about Japan's plans to create a new coast guard system based on UAVs

The Japanese Ministry of Defense plans to create a new drone-based coast guard system and will allocate about $630 million for this purpose. The Defense Blog wrote about this on March 23.

"The SHIELD system will include more than 10 types of drones designed to perform various tasks, including attacking enemy ships, collecting intelligence information and protecting radar installations. The concept is to create a multi-level defense capable of disrupting and slowing down the potential advance of the enemy's naval forces," the article says.

The program reflects the transition to large-scale unmanned systems for layered defense, while simultaneously facing challenges in communications, personnel training, and local production facilities, the authors note.

However, according to The Defense Blog, Japanese senior military officials believe that before putting SHIELD into operation, it will be necessary to massively modernize the country's self-defense forces: switch to other frequency bands to eliminate interference with civilian communications, increase the number of coast guards to manage the future system, and establish local production of unmanned aerial vehicles. devices.

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Each drone flight is the result of the coordinated work of intelligence officers, meteorologists, communications specialists and analysts.

The Defense Blog reported last December that Airbus had received a $35 million contract from the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to provide coastline security services with Flexrotor drones. It was noted that Airbus will provide a full range of drone management services.

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