Japan Stealth Fighter

johngage

Report: Japan to Design Stealth Jet

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, TOKYO


Japan抯 defense ministry hopes to make a prototype of a next-generation stealth plane, the first new fighter jet designed by the officially pacifist country in 30 years, a report said July 24.
The ministry will include funds to develop the manned prototype in its budgetary request for the fiscal year from April 2008, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily cited anonymous defense ministry officials as saying.
Japan has been officially pacifist since its defeat in World War II but has one of the world抯 largest defense budgets and has gradually been expanding its military role.
The defense ministry is hoping to keep its technology up to date and also gain an edge in negotiations with the United States when it selects new fighter jets, the best-selling newspaper said.
A defense ministry spokesman denied it had made the budgetary request but said it had not ruled it out either.
"But we have been studying stealth and other capabilities," the spokesman said. "We are also working on a plan to study small aircraft. We will continue to work on these tasks.

mmc

aku rasa ini akan jadi F-3/F22J....

kahmadz

Off topic:
Aku ingatkan negara matahari terbit tu nak buat next gen fighters ---
ala Optimus Prime and geng --- tak pun Decepticon....

Ye la kan..depa lah paling advance dlm dunia teknologi2 robotik ni...

Baru la tokojut satu dunia nak lawan camno ni "senjata terbaru" ni ..





Er... mungkin tidak ...kurun ke 23 nanti kut baru bleh

(Sori kawan2 ...den domam lopeh tengok transformers aritu...)

HangPC2

MOd Merged kan topik nih ke


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mmc

itu kena ada the source baru boleh jadi la...

superhornet

Tapi kan aku rasa penah tgk laa .. kat satu lagi thread ..
kalu tak silap pasal JSDF .. kat situ ader pasal nie ..
dier buat kerjasama ngan us sebab us nak ganti superhornet kalu tak silap mdel F-36A US panggil dier "Longsword". Sebab diorang buat cam tu kerana US tak bagi jual dier punyer F-22 tapi diorang tak nak lak beli JSF F-35. Dan Kalau tak silap tu pun diorang paggil F-3 mcm yg ko ckp tu .. Model Tu dah kuar pun diorang tengah buat enjin test ngan static test ...

[ Last edited by  superhornet at 27-7-2007 04:36 PM ]

superhornet

Aku dah tgk dah kat situ .. Errmmm boleh tahan gak ...

mmc

tahu...saja aja buat lawak gaban

superhornet

Ehh .. ko ingat lagi tak citer tu ... alaaaa citer gaban la ...

jofizo

Jul 29, 2007
By Kazuki Shiibashi and Bradley Perrett


U.S. refusal to supply Lockheed Martin F-22s for Japan抯 current fighter requirement has prompted Tokyo抯 defense ministry to propose a stealth technology demonstrator, ensuring it will be more independent of Washington in future programs.

Pushing back the decision date on a replacement for its F-4 Phantoms to 2009 at the earliest, the Japanese defense ministry says it is looking at flying the old McDonnell Douglas fighters longer. It is also seeking information on potential replacements from non-U.S. suppliers梡resumably the Eurofighter consortium and Dassault Aviation.

Japanese media reports quote officials saying the proposed stealth technology demonstrator would give Tokyo leverage in seeking F-22s as Phantom replacements梥uggesting that the U.S. might as well relent, because Japan will get a stealth fighter on its own if it has to. But it is obvious that Japan is in no position to develop a stealth fighter quickly enough for the Phantom replacement requirement, the F-X.

The project does, however, show that Japan is determined to be less dependent on the U.S. for later combat aircraft requirements, or at least to have a stronger position when negotiating for U.S. aircraft to fill them. The U.K. similarly invests in stealth partly to keep a seat at Washington抯 technology table.

Japan抯 Phantoms were built between 1971 and 1981 to a design that first flew in 1958. The 91 remaining aircraft are supposed to begin retiring in the fiscal year beginning April 2008.

The first seven of the replacement F-X type were to be ordered in fiscal year 2009, but it now appears that will be delayed, since Japan will not choose the successor type until then at soonest. It previously planned to make the choice in the middle of next year.

Japanese officials say the manned stealth demonstrator, smaller than an operational aircraft, would take about 10 years to develop, if the government accepts the defense ministry抯 proposal to fund the program from next year. And that timeframe would support only a demonstrator; any operational derivative would likely not enter service until the 2020s.

The demonstrator would include technologies other than stealth, but would have neither a radar nor weapons. No technical details have been made available. The project would cost tens of billions of yen, or hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a Japanese press report evidently based on a deliberate official leak.

Some of the engineering development slack left by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries F-2 fighter program, which ends in fiscal year 2011, would be taken up by the stealth demonstrator, but the manufacturing plants can be kept busy only by choosing an aircraft to fill the F-X requirement and ordering it into production.

揓apan does already have a good technological base for stealth aircraft,

HangPC2

Mitsubishi F3


ATD-X

alien7749

Macross.....

areguard

Originally posted by alien7749 at 31-7-2007 11:29 AM
Macross.....

Morph [size=-1]into humanoid mech - Valkyrie

battleship

yusoei yukikaze.......

SONofODIN

Originally posted by HangPC2 at 31-7-2007 11:20 AM


Mitsubishi F3


ATD-X


http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8851/atdxgraphic01yl6.jpg

Looks like F15.

pcboss

TVC dia mcm F-22.

[ Last edited by  pcboss at 31-7-2007 11:00 PM ]

HangPC2

Originally posted by SONofODIN at 31-7-2007 06:26 PM



Looks like F15.

F-15 Mix F-22 = ?

alien7749

everything with twin intake, tein engine, twin fin will looks like F-15. Lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama

superhornet

tapi kalau dah siap n boleh beroperasi us pun ader sekali jenis nie. Diorang nak gandingkan atau gantikan superhornet kat atas kapal pengangkut pesawat.

alien7749

I read somewhere that the superhornet is just an interim fighter before USN get a real plane to do the job. Previous hornet is good but do not have a good 'bring-back', which mean any unused weapon onboard the hornet need to be jettisoned so that the hornet is light enough to land on the carrier. The intended attack aircraft such as A-12 avenger and F-117X also been cancelled.

Australia also bought the superhornet as an interim fighter for the JSF.