Japan is reassessing how it prepares for war, turning to Ukraine’s battlefield experience and low-cost drones capable of intercepting Shaheds as tensions around Taiwan and Chinese military activity continue to rise, The Japan Times reported on July 14.

Japanese defense officials are paying closer attention to the way Ukraine uses inexpensive FPV drones and other unmanned systems to destroy or intercept weapons that cost many times more.

...

That battlefield equation is challenging Japan’s traditional reliance on expensive, highly advanced defense systems. Ukraine has demonstrated that large numbers of affordable drones can provide an effective answer to costly military equipment and mass aerial attacks.

The lessons are particularly relevant as Tokyo prepares to defend remote islands and respond to potential large-scale pressure in the Indo-Pacific.

...

Image is a graph from the electric company showing my usage for a day this week. From 6:30 AM to 8:30 PM we used absolutely no utility power.

I'm almost at the three week mark for having this system up and running. The first two weeks I only had 3 KW of PV input but I added another 5 panels to bring it up to 4 KW last week. It's also still running from a transfer switch in "off grid" mode because I don't yet have the prep work done to move my breaker box and start moving circuits to it. (That means I'm either on full solar+battery or utility, no mixing or load sharing).

Once I get it wired in fully, I'm probably going to switch to time-of-use billing. Unfortunately, I can't do that ahead of time because rather than just making off-peak use cheaper, it makes peak usage (M-F 7am to 9pm) extremely expensive while off peak dirt cheap. I wish there was a middle option, but it is what it is.

I'm also being very conservative with my battery usage since I want to have at least 50% in "reserve" to cover power outages. That's especially important during these heat waves. We could easily run 24/7 but would have to take a day off every so often to just let it charge back up since my system is a bit too small to cover all our usage indefinitely (at least if we want to run the A/C for comfort, that is).

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“For crying out loud, I was hibernating! … Don’t you guys ever take a pulse?”

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Japan is reassessing how it prepares for war, turning to Ukraine’s battlefield experience and low-cost drones capable of intercepting Shaheds as tensions around Taiwan and Chinese military activity continue to rise, The Japan Times reported on July 14.

Japanese defense officials are paying closer attention to the way Ukraine uses inexpensive FPV drones and other unmanned systems to destroy or intercept weapons that cost many times more.

...

That battlefield equation is challenging Japan’s traditional reliance on expensive, highly advanced defense systems. Ukraine has demonstrated that large numbers of affordable drones can provide an effective answer to costly military equipment and mass aerial attacks.

The lessons are particularly relevant as Tokyo prepares to defend remote islands and respond to potential large-scale pressure in the Indo-Pacific.

...