Only NOW ? Japan Looks Into Mil Drones

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/05/japan/japan-sdf-drones-focus/

Faced with an increasingly fraught security environment,
rapid changes in modern warfare and dwindling troop numbers,
the Self-Defense Forces have begun incorporating what they
hope will be affordable yet game-changing technologies
that could give them an edge in any future conflict: drones.

Whether for use in the air, on land or at sea, the SDF is
gradually integrating these increasingly capable and often
autonomous systems into their units as Japan takes lessons
from the war in Ukraine

. . .

If there's anything Ukraine taught immediately it was
how extremely useful mil drones can be. Endless Russian
armor fell to the things, they could spy, they could
zip thru the cracks in field fortifications, some can
reach as far as Moscow.

So why did tekkie Japan take THIS long - ESPECIALLY
with the China thing heating up ??? They should have
at least ten thousand top-tech drones by now.

Couldn't decide on the right color or something ?

[Siri Cruise]

  So why did tekkie Japan take THIS long - ESPECIALLY
  with the China thing heating up ??? They should have
  at least ten thousand top-tech drones by now.

They are not getting ready for another war? Last time did not work
out well for them.