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Mitsubishi Electric as a Top Military/Defense Contractor

Mitsubishi group played a leading role in Japan's WWII activities. Currently, two Mitsubishi companies occupy the top three ranks among defense contracotrs. The ranks are as follows: [Source: Japan Times]

• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
  Aircraft manufacture (F-2 fighter, SH-60/UH-60 helicopters); maintenance and repair (including F-4EJ and F-15J); helicopter engines (for OH-1); guided-missile destroyers; submarines; Type 90 tank (body/gun turret); Patriot surface-to-air missiles; Type 97 torpedoes; avionics test equipment.
• Kawasaki Heavy Industries
  Aircraft manufacture (CH-47JA/OH-1 helicopters); maintenance and repair (including P-3C Orion); helicopter engines (AH-1S/CH-47JA/UH-1); anti-tank missiles; generators for submarines.
• Mitsubishi Electric
  Missiles; targeting systems; radar sets; electronic warfare equipment.
• Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries
  Engine manufacture (F-2); support and development (P-X); engines for UH-60s and guided-missile destroyers.
• Toshiba
  Guided weapons; search radar; electric engines for submarines.