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  1. $Title{Table 25.: National Defense Program Outline}
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  5.                             Authorized Number of Ground Self-Defense Forces Personnel  180,000 Persons
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  8.                                                                                        12 Divisions
  9.                                          Units deployed regionally in peacetime         2 Composite brigades
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  11.                                                                                         1 Armored division
  12.   Ground                                                                                1 Artillery brigade
  13. Self-Defense  Basic units                Mobile operation units                         1 Airborne brigade
  14.   Force                                                                                 1 Training brigade
  15.                                                                                         1 Helicopter brigade
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  17.                                                                                         8 Antiaircraft artillery
  18.                                          Low-altitude ground-to-air missile units         groups
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  21.                                          Antisubmarine surface-ship units               4 Escort flotillas
  22.                                            (for mobile operation)
  23.                                          Antisubmarine surface-ship units              10 Divisions
  24.               Basic units                  (regional district units)
  25.   Maritime                               Submarine units                                6 Divisions
  26. Self-Defense                             Minesweeping units                             2 Flotillas
  27.   Force                                  Land-based antisubmarine aircraft units       16 Squadrons
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  29.                                          Antisubmarine surface ships                      Approximately 60 ships
  30.               Main equipment             Submarines                                    16 Submarines
  31.                                          Operational aircraft                             Approximately 220 aircraft
  32.                                          Aircraft control and warning units            28 Groups
  33.                                          Interceptor units                             10 Squadrons
  34.                                          Support fighter units                          3 Squadrons
  35.   Air         Basic units                Air reconnaissance units                       1 Squadron
  36. Self-Defense                             Air transport units                            3 Squadrons
  37.   Force                                  Early warning units                            1 Squadron
  38.                                          High-altitude ground-to-air missile units      6 Groups
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  41.                                          Operational aircraft                             Approximately 430 aircraft
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  44. Source: Based on information from Japan, Defense Agency, Defense of Japan, 1980, Tokyo, 1980, p. 104.
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