How did this end, did they advanced or something?
The Japanese are currently reviewing potential international partners for their F-3 project.
The X-2 was never meant to be a prototype for a mass production fighter, it was a testbed for various technologies that might end up in the F-3.
the might use the technology they developed to make a new plane that would go into service in the 2030s or they most likely will just buy f35s, this world is so gay
more likely to buy the F-35 indeed, gotta please their greatest ally
>world just becomes f35s and slavshit prototypes that never get anywhere
its all so boring
It's a concept proving prototype, like haveblue or something. Presumably they're trying to learn more about how planes like the F-22 and F-35 are sneeki-beeki, and it's also got somewhat exotic thrust vectoring nozzles so they're probably also learning about fly-by-wire and avionics systems and how to improve aircraft agility.
There is the chinese as well, but they are usually copies from either russian or american designs so it doesn't change much indeed
They want more F-35 but they also want their own F-22 version. Especially now that China is getting into stealth.
Shit engines.
Japan want an aircraft where they can put Japanese engines, Japanese avionics etc. and build it domestically. They want a foreign development partner with aircraft design expertise and supply every subsystem Japan can't do.
FOr a minute there I thought there's a Power Ranger/Whatever Japs call their local Spandex Heroes person standing on the tail on that craft.
>Japan
Last time they tried their own aircraft, it wasnt so good.
The Tornado would have been exactly that what they needed.
Can you compress that just a little bit more?
Wasn't there a rumor going around that Japan was talking to Northrop Grumman and its suggested that they may get a YF-23
What is that thing in the middle of the engines, I literally thought it was a person
Drag chute I believe.
Fuck off, fatnik.
>it wasnt so good.
Considering that was the first aircraft they produced domestically since the 50s and had to start their entire aircraft industry from complete scratch it was actually very good. The AESA radar is also far more advanced Than the F-16 Block 52, which is more important for Japan's use of the F-2 as an anti-ship attacker.
I wish, both the F-22 and YF-23 were good planes in the end, it was just down to operating costs I believe or something like that.
YF-23 lost to the YF-22 for two reasons:
>YF-23 had oversized engine nacelles because of a short takeoff and landing requirement that got scrapped, too late for them to shrink them; the production version would have had smaller engine nacelles
The main reason though?
>Navy wanted to replace the aging F-14 with a superior aircraft; wanted a Super Tomcat like the Attack Tomcat 21
>Lockheed tells navy they can combine the features of the Attack Tomcat 21 and F-22 to make a stealth Super Tomcat
>navy jizzes itself and votes for the YF-22 over the YF-23, since no navalized YF-23 had been designed yet
>John McCain says if the navy is getting a stealth Tomcat, then they don't need the Super Tomcat and cancels it
>navy adopts the cheaper, less effective Super Hornet as a stopgap until they get their stealth Tomcat
>McCain cuts the air force's order for 1,200 F-22's down to only 183
>air force wants 200 FB-22 fighter-bombers; McCain says "fuck you" and cancels the order
>navy asks when it's getting its stealth Tomcats
>"never, fuck you" says John McCain, canceling that order too
>Lockheed tells McCain that if he won't allow the air force to buy enough F-22's and won't allow the navy to buy stealth fighters at all, why not invest in their new F-35 that's just as awesome but way cheaper
>"yeah, sure" says McCain
Thus, the superior YF-23 lost to the inferior YF-22, the air force got fucked, the navy got fucked, and the taxpayer got fucked with the infinite sinkhole of money that is the F-35. Thanks to that fucking asshole John McCain.
It was literally announced as an experimental aircraft/testbed. The thing was never going to be an actual jet that would replace existing ones. Obviously Japan will build aircraft in the future, no reason to keep your industry alive with projects like the F-2 and then just kill it.
Was he just retarded or what? Also how true are the claims of him asking Gi's to surrender from hotel hanoi?
>first aircraft they produced domestically since the 50s
Nope. That'd been the F1.
>MUH ENGINES
Nothing personal kid.
>Under US pressure
welp...
lesson learned, right?
thought this was a virgin v. chad image at first
insane how congress cut half a dozen new aircraft programs due to cost then turned around and approved a trillion dollar fighter
unfortunately i really doubt northrop's gonna be allowed to sell Japan the YF-23 design, but it'd be pretty fucking cool if it happened