With widespread political support, Japan’s Coast Guard has developed a fleet
that, at 145,000 aggregate tons in 2005, was more than 60 percent of the total
tonnage of China’s surface fleet, which expanded to 237,000 aggregate tons
in 2007.57 This fleet includes eighty-nine armed patrol ships weighing more
than 500 tons each, some fifty-six of which are more than 1,000 tons. (The
Chinese Maritime Surveillance Headquarters, administered by the State
Oceanographic Administration, the JCG’s closest analogue, acquired its first
ship on this scale in 2005.) In 2005, when JDA budgets were cut, the JCG’s
equipment budget was increased, with funds earmarked for modernization—
including twenty-one new boats and seven new jets, as well as replacement of
older boats and planes.58 In 2006, when the JDA budget was again cut, the
JCG received delivery of two long-range (12,000-mile) Gulfstream V jets conªgured
for continuous data collection and real-time ship identiªcation, as well
as two patrol ships with advanced ªre control systems, 20-millimeter and 40-
millimeter cannons, and advanced targeting night-vision capabilities, which it
dispatched for duty near the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyudai Islands
http://amstd.spb.ru/Library/samuels.pdf
that, at 145,000 aggregate tons in 2005, was more than 60 percent of the total
tonnage of China’s surface fleet, which expanded to 237,000 aggregate tons
in 2007.57 This fleet includes eighty-nine armed patrol ships weighing more
than 500 tons each, some fifty-six of which are more than 1,000 tons. (The
Chinese Maritime Surveillance Headquarters, administered by the State
Oceanographic Administration, the JCG’s closest analogue, acquired its first
ship on this scale in 2005.) In 2005, when JDA budgets were cut, the JCG’s
equipment budget was increased, with funds earmarked for modernization—
including twenty-one new boats and seven new jets, as well as replacement of
older boats and planes.58 In 2006, when the JDA budget was again cut, the
JCG received delivery of two long-range (12,000-mile) Gulfstream V jets conªgured
for continuous data collection and real-time ship identiªcation, as well
as two patrol ships with advanced ªre control systems, 20-millimeter and 40-
millimeter cannons, and advanced targeting night-vision capabilities, which it
dispatched for duty near the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyudai Islands
http://amstd.spb.ru/Library/samuels.pdf