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fighter: Allied reporting name Tony; only mass-produced Japanese WWII fighter with liquid-cooled, inverted V engine; used as an interceptor (Ki-61-I-KAId) & as kamikazes; retired 1945 Kawasaki Ki-64: 1: 1943: Army: tandem-engine: fighter: Allied reporting name Rob; aircraft caught fire & was damaged during fifth flight; abandoned 1944 Kawasaki ...
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]
A sixth-generation fighter is a conceptualized class of jet fighter aircraft design more advanced than the fifth-generation jet fighters that are currently in service and development. Several countries have announced the development of a national sixth-generation aircraft program, including China , the United States , and Russia .
A number of new 4.5 generation types are being developed in the 2020s, post the emergence of the true 5th generation and contemporaneous with 6th generation aircraft development, these include the HAL Tejas MK 1A, CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder Block 3, and KAI KF-21 Boramae. [23] [14] [9]
These names were given according to a scheme based on the aircraft's role. These were official names, in contrast to Army aircraft whose names were popular nicknames. Fighters: Weather and meteorological names Carrier fighters and seaplane fighters: Wind names usually ending with pu or fu (風) Interceptors: Lightning names ending in den (電)
To address this issue, the Ministry of Defence decided in 2010 that Japan's next-generation fighter had to be highly information-based, intelligent, and capable of instantaneous response (i 3 fighter). At the time, the fighter fleet of the Japan Air Self-Defence Force mainly consisted of the Mitsubishi F-15J and the Mitsubishi F-2.
This list does not include fictional aircraft or concepts that were abandoned before a prototype was built. In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”.
Together with reserve aircraft and the headquarters flight, an Air Combat Group typically had 45 aircraft (fighter) or up to 30 aircraft (bomber or reconnaissance). Two or more Air Combat Groups formed an Air Brigade ( 飛行団 , Hikōdan ) , which, together with base and support units and a number of Independent Squadrons, formed an Air Corps ...