Japan to design stealth jet

[Neo]

Japan to design stealth jet​

TOKYO: Japan’s defence 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 on Tuesday.

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 defence ministry officials as saying.

Japan has been officially pacifist since its defeat in World War II but has one of the world’s largest defence budgets and has gradually been expanding its military role.

The defence 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 defence 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,” he added. afp

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\25\story_25-7-2007_pg4_6

 

[Neo]

Mitsubishi Stealth​

The Mitsubishi 3000GT sports car was sold in the US as the Dodge Stealth, but now the company has moved up to the real thing.

Japan's Technical Research & Development Institute (TRDI) recently unveiled images of the Mitsubishi ATD-X stealth fighter in the form of a full-scale radar cross-section (RCS) model. One picture was released a few months ago by TRDI, but has now disappeared from their site. Other images can be found here. They include a presentation slide confirming that France has been supporting the Japanese stealth program: between September and November 2005, the model was tested in the French government's radar cross-section (RCS) range. Other features of the twin-engine jet include thrust vectoring with external paddles, an F-22-like external shape, fly-by-light controls and the testing of a smart-skin sensor.

In some ways the ATD-X project is comparable to BAE Systems' Replica stealth demonstration in the mid-1990s. It's not likely that the Japanese government will fund the development of an operational stealth fighter, but the domestic capability may be used to ease US concerns about exporting its own stealth aircraft to Japan. Further down the road, too, the same technology could be used in other systems such as cruise missiles or unmanned air vehicles.

Using the French range is logical. At Bruz, near Rennes, France's DGA defense agency's CELAR (center for military electronics) laboratory constructed the Solange indoor RCS range. A photo found here shows that Solange may be the biggest indoor RCS range in the world, capable of measuring a real fighter rather than a subscale mock-up. The same site also confirms that Solange was built with the help of a US company, absorber specialist Emerson & Cuming.

http://aviationweek.typepad.com/ares/2007/06/mitsubishi_stea.html

 

[BATMAN]

Is there any story between the line?
If remember correctly, previously Japan has seeked JSF and had plans to induct new jets.

 

[Neo]

Is there any story between the line?

Obviously there is, "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 defence ministry officials as saying".

If remember correctly, previously Japan has seeked JSF and had plans to induct new jets.

Not the JSF but the Raptor is being offered.

 

[BATMAN]

Thanks for the correction.
I believe Japan has the brain and balls to make one indignously and quite fast.
Pakistan should offer to share in the development.

 

[Neo]

There's not much we can offer a technological and economic powerhouse like Japan, our only hope is China with the J-XX.
That too will be a risk sharing and political motivated decision.

Just my sincere opinion.

 

[Cheetah786]

Thanks for the correction.
I believe Japan has the brain and balls to make one indignously and quite fast.
Pakistan should offer to share in the development.

Iam willing to bet Japanese already have the tech and no how to build it.i seen these guys work and they usually don't talk about things unless they have some thing to show for.

 

[Bull]

Well its high time Japaness start building there own stuff. A country with such a good industrial and moreover electronics and software related knowhow should have done it long time back.

 

[joey]

The F2 is said to be the only bird which follows a non-federated architecture like F22 (CIP based) though risky but coolier and holier than others, no wonder they have the industry to bring it up, problem they will face will be with a proper powerplant.

 

[ARSENAL6]

Well its high time Japaness start building there own stuff. A country with such a good industrial and moreover electronics and software related knowhow should have done it long time back.

there was a very important reasoj that they didn't move ahead

 

[Cheetah786]

The F2 is said to be the only bird which follows a non-federated architecture like F22 (CIP based) though risky but coolier and holier than others, no wonder they have the industry to bring it up, problem they will face will be with a proper powerplant.

Joey during the last war it was Mitsubishi that was making the power plants for the Japanese.(which Americans copied)they are way advance in power plants for all sorts of commercial vehicles.so i doubt they will have a problem making one for there birds.

But question is why all of sudden Americans are letting the giant wake up.

 

[mustang]

Japan can make anything ... and if it started making jets and stuff i think we will get to see star wars live in action ...

 

[EagleEyes]

Interesting development! I wonder how much it will cost. I expect it to be more expensive than F/A-22!

 

[mil-avia]

External components of F-3 fighter aircraft :

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[mil-avia]

25DMU concept stealth jet :

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