A large-scale live-fire exercise by the Ground Self-Defense Force assuming the defense of remote islands was held at a training ground in Shizuoka Prefecture.
The Fuji Comprehensive Firepower Exercise is a large-scale exercise using live ammunition held annually by the Ground Self-Defense Force at the Higashi-Fuji Training Area in Shizuoka Prefecture.
This year, about 2500,<> members of the SDF participated in the event of responding to an invasion of a remote island, and after the reconnaissance unit landed from the helicopter, a drone was flown to check the surrounding situation from the sky.
After that, the "Amphibious Task Force," a specialized unit for landing operations, deployed and confirmed the procedure for recapturing remote islands by firing with mobile combat vehicles.
Before the spread of the new coronavirus, the Fuji Comprehensive Thermal Power Exercise was open to the public and was visited by more than 2,3 people every year, but in order to prevent the spread of infection, it was canceled to the public for three consecutive years until last year.
The Ground Self-Defense Force has decided to suspend the public exhibition after this year, citing the need to focus on exercises amid the increasingly severe security environment.
The exercise was held at night, and the ammunition used in one day on the 27th was about 57 tons, worth about 10.7000 billion yen.