The russian ground drone is engaged in demining a road.
This is exactly the case where there's endless talk about aerial strike drones, but the capabilities of ground drones are almost completely ignored!
And, by the way, the ground component has far broader functionality than the aerial one.
ROF takes these aspects into account, develops, and scales them: fire engagement, reconnaissance, engineering tasks, evacuation, logistics support, and much more.
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I often notice that people who strongly support 🇨🇳the Chinese Communist Party freely use X to attack 🇯🇵Japan or other democracies — even though X is banned inside China.
It is a striking contradiction.
Freedom of speech exists because democratic societies protect it. Authoritarian systems do not.
Some of these users also try to weaponize history.
But history is a mirror. We must learn from it, not weaponize it.
Its purpose is to help us prevent the next conflict — especially now, 80 years after the war.
Most of us were born long after that tragedy. Our responsibility is not to refight the past, but to protect peace for the next generation.
There is another fact largely unknown outside Japan:
modern China was built, in no small part, with Japanese ODA.
For nearly four decades, Japan supported China’s development sincerely and without political conditions.
Japan funded or helped build
Pudong International Airport,
the Shanghai Metro,
Tianjin’s waterworks,
major port upgrades in Dalian and Qingdao,
and even early optical-fibre networks in Shanghai and Tianjin.
And one example is particularly symbolic:
Beijing Capital International Airport — modernised with Japanese ODA — later created a listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Japan financed much of the airport’s development,
yet does not hold a single share in the listed company.
Japan helped build the infrastructure, but took no equity.
This fact speaks for itself.
And yet today, some choose to use the freedom of democratic platforms to attack the very country that helped them rise.
That contradiction deserves to be recognised.
But beyond contradictions, one principle must remain absolutely clear:
no country should ever be allowed to change the status quo by force.
This is a shared value across responsible democracies — and a cornerstone of peace in the Indo-Pacific.
Japan will never start a war.
That has never changed, and never will.
But we must be able to protect our people, our democracy, and the rules-based order that prevents coercion and preserves peace.
Our generation’s duty is clear:
to make sure that freedom, truth, and responsible leadership prevail over intimidation.
And together with all nations that believe in a Free and Open Indo-Pacific,
we must keep this region peaceful, stable, and open.
🇯🇵Yasuhide Nakayama
中山 泰秀