Has anyone by any chance come across photos of this project, intended for mountain warfare units? Initially known as the Type 56 Trial Special Transport Vehicle, the first two prototypes, the RZ-1 and the SZ-2, were wheeled and tracked respectively, with four more wheeled prototypes being...
aichi kikai kōgyō kabushiki kaisha
aichi machine industry co.
artillery tractor
cold war
early 1960s
gun tractor
japan
japan defense agency
japanese ground self-defense force
jgsdf
jsdf
late 1950s
mortar carrier
mountain warfare
rough terrain
transport
trdi
I am just trying to compile all domestic Japanese UAV programs in one place. Maybe I will add a bit more info on each as time goes on. I know for a fact I'm missing a lot of the early cold war programs, so any help there would be appreciated.
FUJI/SUBARU
Fuji-Vigilant 5000...
cold war
cold war ii
early 21st century
japan
japan air self-defense force
japanese ground self-defense force
japanese maritime self-defense force
jsdf
late 20th century
post-cold war
remotely piloted air system
remotely piloted vehicle
rpv
trdi
ucav
unmanned air system
unmanned air vehicle
Hi!
Japan and the US have agreed to launch joint research on high-speed trimaran.
The Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 4 March that it had signed a preliminary agreement on joint research into a high-speed trimaran with the Pentagon.
The announcement followed the signing of a...
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 heavy industries
mitsubishi
mitsubishi heavy industries
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
mitsubishi heavy industries
surface-to-surface missile
trdi
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
japan
japan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
kawasaki heavy industries
mcdonnell douglas
mitsubishi heavy industries
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)
mitsubishi heavy industries
trdi
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