- Security domain
- Land
- What it is
- self-defense force · service (level 3)
- Founded
- 1954
- Acknowledged by
- Official website (official site)
- Active headcount
- 150,700 (2023) estimated, medium confidence
- Reserve
- 56,000
- Headcount source
- Wikipedia infobox, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (IISS Military Balance 2023)
- Website
- www.mod.go.jp/gsdf
- Identifiers
- factbase.org/org/S4WKPEWX87 · Q889751
Beneath it
Platforms it operates
From the service's own equipment list where one is published.
- Type 87 Chu-MAT
- Type 79 Jyu-MAT
- Enstrom 480
- 155 mm FH-70 howitzer
- self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon
- Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk
- Patria AMV
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Hughes AH-64 Apache
- Komatsu LAV
- Yamaha R-MAX
- Boeing CH-47 Chinook
- Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey
- H225 Super Puma
- Bell AH-1 Cobra
- FIM-92 Stinger
- L16
- CH-146 Griffon
- M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
- M6C-210
- Boeing Insitu MQ-27 ScanEagle
- Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle
- Mitsubishi H-60
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle
- Type 01 LMAT
- Type 91 Surface-to-air missile