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2014-04-17 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan's indigenous stealth jet prototype 'to fly this year'

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Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I suspect this is also pushed along by the fact the Japanese know that the only sense that Obama has their back is the one that it's handy to stick a knife in if he feels like it.

Poland is also arming itself heavily. The world is realizing that right now, America is nobody's ally.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-04-17 03:20|| 2014-04-17 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The world is realizing that right now, America is nobody's ally.

Except "Palestinians", Bruderbund, Iran, etc...?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-17 03:54|| 2014-04-17 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 But g(r)omgoru, I'm not sure you can really say that Obama's helping them though. He gives them enough crap to make an absolute mess of things, then goes and plays golf while whoever he just 'helped' winds up in a far worse mess than before. Just look at how well Libya and Syria have turned out.

The Obama touch - Whatever he touches turns to stinky brown stuff.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-04-17 04:27|| 2014-04-17 04:27|| Front Page Top

#4 They won't say he's helping them because the ability to feel gratitude is not part of their cultural-genetic matrix.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-17 04:34|| 2014-04-17 04:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Not a drone?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-04-17 05:57|| 2014-04-17 05:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Any bets on whether it's gonna be a nuke delivery capable platform? (As the F-22 isn't.) The Japanese are worried about supply line issues, particularly the probability the there's built in faults in Chinese supplied chips in what we're selling. And, no, not a drone, but it's probably set up to be a drone controller.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-04-17 07:13|| 2014-04-17 07:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Not a drone?

Given their skill in robotics, I'd expect the Japanese to be the first to field a drone capable of autonomous air combat maneuvering. Drones flying in support of their controller would be both a force multiplyer and a natural evolution.

Posted by SteveS 2014-04-17 13:40|| 2014-04-17 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 If they can keep the same sort of schedule fidelity on this that MHI is on the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, it is safe to say that the bird won't fly for at least 4 years. That bird I already 3+ years late and they finally joined ac 1's wing and fuselage earlier this month

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-04-17 23:13|| 2014-04-17 23:13|| Front Page Top

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