Six Mark-1’s were deployed in 2015, followed by the Mark-2’s in 2016 and the Mark-3's in 2017. The production program was divided into five annual roll-outs that began in 2015 and ended in 2019. The “Mark' label assigned to each Jaeger refers to the launch schedule. No good fight can be put up without some fearsome weapons! The Anti-Kaiju weapon engineering company Shao Industries is the main producer of fearsome weapons like the iconic Plasma Cannon since 2025, but new companies like the Icelandic Arms Developer Swanscov & Karim Armaments, the South Korean R/D and manufacturing company GRO Labs or the german private company developing 'Höllschrei', an Automatic AKM Launcher stepped into the light after the attack on MegaTokyo.
Jasper Schoenfeld's idea was approved by the United Nations. Upon witnessing his son playing with a toy robot and toy monster in his room, he came across the inspiration for giant humanoid mechs which could stand up to the Kaiju without resorting to nuclear weapons. Prior to the conference, Schoenfeld looked for a more efficient way of killing the monsters without the use of nuclear weapons. Lars Gottlieb shortly after Jasper Schoenfeld proposed the idea for the Jaeger at the 2014 conference in Seoul, South Korea following the fourth Kaiju attack on Sydney, Australia in September. The Jaeger Program was first developed by Dr.
