Japan aims to catch up on drone warfare by tapping Ukraine’s experience

Japan is accelerating plans to acquire and develop drones for its military by stepping up cooperation with Ukraine and learning from Kyiv’s wartime experience against Russia as it seeks to deploy more unmanned systems across its territory in the Pacific.

To complement this strategy, Japanese companies are boosting cooperation with their European counterparts to manufacture anti-submarine drones.

“The entire international community has witnessed how warfare has changed since the outbreak of the...