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Offline icekid

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Japanese Stealth Fighter
« on: April 04, 2009, 09:53:39 PM »
http://www.defenceaviation.com/2008/01/mitsubishi-atd-x-shinshin-japanese.html

Oh my God.. I was surprised. It looks so beautiful.

Looks aside. It has 3d thrust vectoring. (watch the video)

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The design of the aircraft reflects those of several American fourth and fifth generation fighters, most notably the F-22

I think US has helped the Japanese.

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A mock-up has already undergone preliminary ground tests in France, the report said. Friday's decision by the ministry to push ahead with the multi billion-yen (multi million-dollar; multi million-euro) project means developers will start working toward flight tests, with production in about 10 years, it said. The reports also say that there was a possible involvement of US Lockheed Martin in the development of ATD-X.

This suggests my argument too.

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Re: Japanese Stealth Fighter
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2009, 10:47:08 PM »
Welcome Icekid, glad to have you here. Pretty cool stuff that 'Shinshin'. Looks like they do RTD&E with a scale model RC plane, pretty interesting.
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Re: Japanese Stealth Fighter
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2009, 09:04:41 PM »
Hi Icekid
Welcome aboard

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JAPANESE ATF
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2009, 09:55:11 AM »
After Raptorski, here it is Raptor-Li!. >:D

What a lack of imagination. After more than 20 years than the first appearance of the YF-22, i expect more radical shapes....Where did the design it? in a Xerox machine?

Once again, the YF-23 proved to be more than 20 years ahead....

Offline WRCKid

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Re: Japanese Stealth Fighter
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2009, 08:16:19 PM »
The bird looks cool, there is a resemblance to quite a few fighters and certaintly the F22 is one of them. Hope Japan can give the go ahead.

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Re: Japanese Stealth Fighter
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2009, 08:26:05 PM »
In My Humble Opinion that the show of the japanese stealth is being made in tradition of cold-war somehow to show your teeth sharpened. untill now we dont hear about that stealth. yes the bird look nice but hey..its japanese. and i think that no one will buy anything that is non- american in this field
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Re: Japanese Stealth Fighter
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2009, 05:37:37 AM »
Um.. Isn't this thing really really old? More than a year..? Last i heard of it (about a year ago to the month) was that it was undergoing RCS tests..

Aw Valk, the '23 was really ugly...  ::)
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