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In addition to the F-86s it also license-built F-104J/DJ, F-4EJ and F-15J/DJ aircraft. In addition it has designed and built the Mitsubishi F-1 and Mitsubishi F-2 aircraft. The JASDF was interested in obtaining the twin-engine Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor to replace the F-4 and F-15, but when this was not possible it settled on the F-35.
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 .
The ADC Headquarters does command and control operations to defend Japanese airspace. [citation needed] Until 2015, women were banned from becoming fighter jet and reconnaissance aircraft pilots. The first female pilot of an F-15 joined the ranks, along with three other female pilots currently in training, in 2018. [9]
The F-X is said to be bigger than the F-22, which has earned it the nickname "Godzilla" from Bradley Perrett at Aviation Week. The large size indicates the MoD desires the aircraft to possess very long range and large payload capacity. Technologies tested in the X-2 technology demonstrator will likely be incorporated into the F-X fighter. [51]
The Tactical Fighter Training Group (飛行教育航空隊, hikoukyoukukoukuutai) is a training unit belonging to Air Training Command of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force based at Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It consists of the 23rd Flying Training Squadron. [1]
In order to fly the F-22, Larson said he had to go through basic pilot training, consisting of 55 weeks of flying in trainer aircraft like the T-6 Texan II and a T-38 Talon.
Prototype damaged on maiden short flight & destroyed in bombing the night before scheduled second test flight Seversky A8V: 20: 1938: Navy: monoplane: reconnaissance: Allied reporting name Dick; 2PA-B3s sold to Japan as A8V1 or Navy Type S Two-Seat Fighter; retired Nakajima/Showa L2D: 487: 1939: Navy: twin-engine: transport
The 23rd Flying Training Squadron (第23飛行隊, dai-ni-san-hikoutai) is a training squadron belonging to the Fighter Training Group of the Air Training Command of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. It is based at Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. [1] It was formerly the 202nd Tactical Fighter Squadron. [2]