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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]
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-”.
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era. Fiat G.55 Centauro; Hawker Tempest; Kawanishi N1K2-J; Kawasaki Ki-100; Lavochkin La-7; Messerschmitt Bf 109G; Mitsubishi J2M3; North American P-51D Mustang; Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario; Republic P-47N Thunderbolt; Related lists. List of aircraft of Japan during World War II; List of aircraft ...
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 and is not officially in use. [5] [6] [7] The aircraft's first flight was on 22 April 2016.
On 7 February 2013, two Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 fighters briefly entered Japanese airspace off Rishiri Island near Hokkaido, flying south over the Sea of Japan before turning back to the north. [31] Four F-2 fighters were scrambled to visually confirm the Russian planes, [32] warning them by radio to leave their airspace. [33]