According to Japanese news network reported on July 10, the ship carrying 12 Osprey transport aircraft the MV-22 large transport ships are sailing from the United States to Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture, will be deployed in the U.S. Iwakuni base. The Kempinski Meyer, Japanese Minister of the U.S. State Department pointed out that the deployment in Japan is an important objective of the Osprey transport aircraft, in order to assist the Japanese "defense" Diaoyu Islands.
Kempinski Meyer said in an interview with Japan's Fuji TV, the Osprey transport aircraft combat radius is 4 times higher than the helicopter used by U.S. forces in Japan, 600 km, the maximum speed of more than two times. Once the Diaoyu Islands were attacked, the use of the helicopter from the U.S. military in Okinawa Futenma Air Station to the Diaoyu Islands, you need two and a half hours, but the use of Osprey transport aircraft, and need only one hour, and take the number of combat troops and artillery fighting vehicles the number of existing helicopter. The Kempinski Meyer therefore stressed that the Osprey transport aircraft deployed in Japan, the largest purpose is to assist the Japanese "defense" Diaoyu Islands. This is the U.S. government relations person for the first time confirmed the deployment of the Osprey transport aircraft and defense over the Diaoyu Islands.
The first batch of 12 Osprey transport aircraft is scheduled to arrived in Yamaguchi Prefecture, on the 24th of this month for deployment at Iwakuni Base. The U.S. military is also scheduled in October this year, to the deployment of 24 new aircraft in the Futenma base in the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa. However, due to the Osprey transport aircraft this year, has occurred two times the crash, their safety questioned by the Japanese public opinion, especially where the U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture and Yamaguchi county government with the public, for the U.S. military deployment of Osprey transport aircraft great opposition, Yamaguchi Prefecture, opposition groups plan protests in the Osprey transport aircraft arrived in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Okinawa Prefectural Assembly plans to hold a massive protest rally.
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