How about this box art !

[Steel Penguin]

Search and Rescue? after the battle perhaps

[Nick]

Those camouflaged helicopters all look different to me, the rear one is an AH-1 Cobra which Japan has. The front one is more like an AH-64 Apache with Japan roundel, that is a whiff!
The middle one in the air is unusual, not being a Cobra or Apache. Twin wheels at front, tandem seating, rockets on side but a fenestron tail rotor is not used by any attack helo I know of... Unless it's actually a Chinese Harbin Z-19 sneaking up from behind!

http://www.military-today.com/helicopters/z19.htm

[Gondor]

It's not a Z-19 as it's too stepped at the front. Maybe an A129?

Gondor

[Captain Canada]

They call it an OH-1 ?

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10215618z/70/1

[Mr.Creak]

Kawasaki OH-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_OH-1.
A129 doesn't have the Fenestron tail rotor.

[pyro-manic]

Kawasaki OH-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_OH-1

EDIT: Beaten to it by Mr. Creak by six seconds!

[ChernayaAkula]

<...> The front one is more like an AH-64 Apache with Japan roundel, that is a whiff! <...>

Actually, those are real, too. They've ordered around 50 of them. I don't know whether they've got them all in service, but they've been flying them for a couple of years now. Lovely colours. 

[Nick]

They call it an OH-1 ?

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10215618z/70/1

Ooh, looks interesting. But is there a 1/72 kit out yet? 

Thanks for the replies, shows what I know about Japan using helicopters!

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

I think the word we are scrambling for might be "Provocative".

Ian

[pyro-manic]

It's only an issue if people kick up a fuss...!

Japan are most certainly not the only ones stirring things up. This is really a very minor thing, and pales into insignificance compared with actual events.

[lancer]

It's only an issue if people kick up a fuss...!

Japan are most certainly not the only ones stirring things up. This is really a very minor thing, and pales into insignificance compared with actual events.

That is very true.

[Army of One]

I'm sure I seen a model review of a Japanese AH64 by Hasegawa....can't remember if it was 1/72 or 1/48 though....

[NARSES2]

I'm sure I seen a model review of a Japanese AH64 by Hasegawa....can't remember if it was 1/72 or 1/48 though....

Hasegawa, 1/48th I think, saw the same review a few months back

[rickshaw]

China, doing this in reverse, getting people excited about a Deviant Art drawing...

[pyro-manic]

Oh dear. That's so clearly a Jigabachi-tribute/clone/rip-off it's not even funny....