The media reported on Japan's development of unmanned boats for the coast Guard

The Japanese government intends to start developing unmanned patrol boats to equip the coast Guard from April next year. This was reported on July 19 by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.

"The Japanese government has decided to begin research and development of unmanned vessels for the Japanese Coast Guard starting next fiscal year in order to strengthen surveillance and monitoring of the waters surrounding Japan," the publication says.

It is specified that these measures are planned to be implemented jointly with the use of patrol ships and drones to strengthen control at sea.

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It will be the first in the country since the Second World War.

Eisaku Ito, CEO of Japan's largest defense company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said on July 6 that the conversion of declining automobile plants into factories for the production of military drones would be a waste of budget funds. Ito said that "it would be a terrible idea to use factories like those used for cars" to produce military drones, and warned of the risk of producing large quantities of unusable, outdated products.