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Through it all, nonetheless, "non-nuclear Japan" was a sentiment, not a reality. [52] A 1960 accord with Japan permits the United States to move weapons of mass destruction through Japanese territory and allows American warships and submarines to carry nuclear weapons into Japan's ports and American aircraft to bring them in during landings.
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft.As a product of the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities.
The F-X program began when the United States banned exports of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor as part of the 1997 Obey amendment in order to safeguard its technology. [7] With Japan no longer able to purchase the F-22, a domestically developed fighter was chosen instead to replace Japan's aging fleet of fighter jets.
In the postwar era Mitsubishi has been the main corporation responsible for Japan's fighters. 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 ...
Mitsubishi F-15DJ: Japan: trainer: 1981: in use: 44: all but twelve license-built by Mitsubishi: Mitsubishi F-X: Japan: fighter: 2031 (planned) in development: 0: Japan's first domestically developed stealth fighter - developed from X-2 Shinshin & i3 fighter concept, to replace Mitsubishi F-2: Mitsubishi MU-2/LR-1: Japan: utility: 1967: retired ...
Japan provides a base for the U.S. to project its military power in Asia, hosting 54,000 American troops, hundreds of its aircraft and Washington's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier strike group.
During World War II, Japan had several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.Like the similar wartime programs in Nazi Germany, it was relatively small, suffered from an array of problems brought on by lack of resources and wartime disarray, and was ultimately unable to progress beyond the laboratory stage during ...
The 1 December 1958 issue of Aviation Week included an article, "Soviets Flight Testing Nuclear Bomber", that claimed that the Soviets had greatly progressed a nuclear aircraft program: [10] "[a] nuclear-powered bomber is being flight tested in the Soviet Union. Completed about six months ago, this aircraft has been flying in the Moscow area ...