I haven't made a post on here in ages but today I stumbled upon something very strange and interesting only the people here might know of to find. I was going on a romp around Japan in Google Maps looking at aviation museums and such and I came across a museum near Nagoya Airport owned by...
air defence
cold war
early 1960s
interceptor
japan
japan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
late 1950s
mitsubishiheavyindustries
north american aviation
united states
This was a program, possibly inspired by the B-1C and related proposals, to procure a number of P-3C based variants equipped with the AWG-9 Radar and the Phoenix missile (likely the AIM-54C ECCM/Sealed version), for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. The program began as a TRDI program in...
1980s
air defence
airborne early warning
cold war
hughes aircraft company
hughes missile systems group
interceptor
interceptors
japan
japan defense agency
japan maritime self-defense force
jsdf
kawasaki
kawasaki heavyindustriesmitsubishimitsubishiheavyindustries
strategic defence
trdi
XSSM-1 PROVING EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN U.S.
Tokyo AEROSPACE JAPAN-WEEKLY in English 3 Aug 87 pp 4, 5
For a missile that was "highly evaluated" by the U.S., I find it to be particularly elusive.
Has anyone seen a picture of it? Could anyone share more data about its career? Thanks!
anti-ship missile
coastal defences
cold war
japan defense agency
japanese ground self-defense force
mitsubishiheavyindustries
surface-to-surface missile
trdi
Hi all,
also Mitsubishi has projected a new regional jet in two versions MRJ.70 with 70 seats and the MRJ.90 with 96 seats.
( Source: FliegerRevue )
Servus Maveric
2010s
civil aviation
early 2020s
japan
japan airlines
late 2000s
mitac
mitsubishimitsubishi aircraft corporation
mitsubishiheavyindustriesmitsubishi spacejet
msj asset management company
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 heavyindustries
general dynamics
japan
japan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
kawasaki heavyindustries
mcdonnell douglas
mitsubishiheavyindustries
trdi
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
japan
japan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
jsdf
late 2000s
ministry of defense (japan)
mitsubishiheavyindustries
trdi
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