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The Mitsubishi F-X (unofficially called F-3) is a sixth-generation stealth fighter in development for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). It is Japan's first domestically developed stealth fighter jet and will replace the Mitsubishi F-2 by the mid-2030s. [1]
Many consider this aircraft to be Japan's first domestically made stealth fighter. ATD-X is an abbreviation for "Advanced Technology Demonstrator – X". The aircraft is widely known in Japan as Shinshin ( 心神 , meaning "mind" or "spirit.") [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] although the name itself is an early code name within the Japan Self-Defense Forces ...
An ECM antenna position of Mitsubishi F-15J MSIP (2005). F-15J/DJs are identical to F-15C/Ds aside from the ECM, radar warning system, and nuclear equipment.The AN/ALQ-135 Internal Countermeasures System is replaced by the indigenous J/ALQ-8 and the AN/ALR-56 Radar Warning Receiver is replaced by the J/APR-4.
Stealth aircraft will continue to play a valuable role in air combat with the United States using the F-22 Raptor, B-2 Spirit, and the F-35 Lightning II to perform a variety of operations. The F-22 made its combat debut over Syria in September 2014 as part of the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS. [49]
Central to the light carrier's power is the short take-off and landing version of the F-35 stealth fighter. JS Kaga The Japanese destroyer JS Kaga sails off the coast of Southern California.
From the mid-2000s Japan began funding various research programmes involved in fighter design culminating in the Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin experimental aircraft which took flight on 22 April 2016. This research and the data collected from the X-2 programme would feed the development of Japan's main fighter effort, the Mitsubishi F-X programme.
Japan: fighter: 1981: 223: 12 built by MDD, the rest by Mitsubishi Mitsubishi F-15DJ: Japan: trainer: 1981: 48: Mitsubishi F-X: Japan: fighter: 2035 (planned) Planned sixth-generation stealth fighter developed from X-2 Shinshin and i3 fighter concept Mitsubishi MU-2/LR-1: Japan: utility: 1967: retired 2008: 53: also SAR and photo-reconnaissance ...
The US landed an F-35 stealth fighter on Japan's new aircraft carrier for the first time. US and Japanese forces are integrating the short-takeoff/vertical landing F-35B onto the JS Kaga.