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Mitsubishi Electric is a Japanese electronics and defense-systems manufacturer whose defense work includes air-defense sensors, missiles, radars, electronic-warfare equipment, C4I systems, space systems, communications equipment, and EO/IR systems for Japan's Self-Defense Forces and export-oriented product lines.
2 weaponsThe company was established on January 15, 1921, after Mitsubishi Shipbuilding spun off an electric-motor factory in Kobe. Mitsubishi Electric remains headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and reports defense and space systems inside its Infrastructure business area alongside social and power systems.
Mitsubishi Electric describes itself as a major supplier of electronics systems to the Japan Ground, Maritime, and Air Self-Defense Forces since the 1960s. Its defense pages identify capabilities in air-defense systems, radar, electronic warfare, command-and-control, military space systems, network communications, and electro-optical/infrared equipment.
For catalog context, Mitsubishi Electric is relevant where public sources identify it as the manufacturer of Japanese missile, radar, sensor, or electronic systems. The connected records here focus on source-backed systems rather than broader consumer, industrial-automation, elevator, semiconductor, or appliance businesses.
Medium-range Japanese air-to-air missile identified by CSIS as a Mitsubishi Electric AAM-4B weapon in service with F-2 fighters and subject to a 2019 F-15J integration request.
Sources: CSIS Missile Threat: Japan Mulls Equipping F-15J with Domestically-Produced Air-to-Air Missile
Long-range L-band 3D AESA radar described by Mitsubishi Electric as developed and manufactured in-house, with ballistic-missile-defense mode available and a 330 nautical mile instrumented range.
Sources: Mitsubishi Electric FPS-3ME Advanced Air Surveillance RadarMitsubishi Electric was established after Mitsubishi Shipbuilding spun off a Kobe electric-motor factory, creating the separate company that later expanded into industrial electronics, space systems, and defense electronics.
Sources: Mitsubishi Electric Corporate Data, Mitsubishi Electric Logo History
Mitsubishi Electric states that it has supplied electronics systems to the Japanese Ground, Maritime, and Air Self-Defense Forces since the 1960s, covering areas that now include radar, C4I, EW, communications, and defense space systems.
Sources: Mitsubishi Electric Defense Capabilities
CSIS reported that Japan's Ministry of Defense issued a request for proposals to integrate Mitsubishi Electric AAM-4B missiles on the F-15J fleet, broadening the missile's fighter integration context beyond F-2 service.
Sources: CSIS Missile Threat: Japan Mulls Equipping F-15J with Domestically-Produced Air-to-Air Missile
Mitsubishi Electric's corporate data as of March 31, 2026 listed consolidated revenue of 5,894,747 million yen, 150,386 employees, and headquarters at the Tokyo Building in Marunouchi, Tokyo.
Sources: Mitsubishi Electric Corporate Data
Mitsubishi Electric is a diversified electronics group; this profile covers only the defense, space, radar, sensor, communications, and missile context that is relevant to catalog-connected systems.
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Systems that contest aircraft, missiles, helicopters, and drones.
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Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.