This seems to be the patent for the Ishida TW-68, includes nice drawings.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD332079&id=NeQpAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#PPP1,M1
The original FS-X design seems to owe a lot to the Hornet 2000 proposal, doesn't it? Particularly that fourth image- aside from the wedge intakes and shorter nose, I might have thought that was the Hornet 2000 proposal......
1980s
cold war
fuji heavy industries
general dynamics
japanjapan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
kawasaki heavy industries
mcdonnell douglas
mitsubishi heavy industries
trdi
Sorry not ... that's all I have about this project and I was quite surprised that this pic has been released as yet !
I have some models of older Japanese projects like configurations under study for an indigenous FSX and a follow on replacement for the F-15J !
Here You go ....
Deino ;D...
A fellow aviation collector I know in Japan posted this image to our forum and he tells me that it was some sort of full-size RCS test model for a proposed Japanese fighter design. I've never seen anything like this in the press before but it appears to be some sort of F-22-based model with what...
2010s
atla
experimental
fighter
japanjapan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
jsdf
late 2000s
ministry of defense (japan)
mitsubishi heavy industries
trdi
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