West meets East

Building on the overwhelming participation by many international VIPs to MAST 2015 in Japan, invitations will shortly be sent to the Chiefs of Navy that attended (or were invited to) Yokohama.

It is hoped that following on from the launch of Japan’s first defence show with some 4,000 participants (many new to the MAST community) in May, and with Japan’s recent application as “Contributing Participant” to the NATO Consortium of the NATO Sea Sparrow Project Office (NSSPO), in particular for the development of ESSM (Block 2), a strong number of Japanese participants will attend MAST Europe in Amsterdam, as well as their Asian counterparts from Government and navies.