Japan's first stealth fighter unveiled
Could this be the stealth jet of the future? Japan has unveiled a test aircraft for its first domestically-made stealth fighter. http://cnn.it/1Pm22VE
The X-2's stealthy features include a special coating on the canopy that houses the pilot, as well as a carbon-fibre composite material that absorbs radar waves, Mr Hirofumi Doi, programme manager at the defence ministry's procurement agency, was quoted as saying in an interview before the unveiling.
Japan Air Self-Defense Force personnel stood guard as journalists snapped photos Thursday of the gleaming red-and-white aircraft near Nagoya.
The X-2-previously known as ATD-X, for Advanced Technology Demonstrator X-was manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
It has so far cost almost 39.4 billion yen ($294 million) to develop with another 2.3 billion yen ($19.3 million) budgeted for tests in the next fiscal year, officials said.
The defence ministry's acquisition agency showed off the domestically developed, radar-dodging X-2 fighter at a heavily guarded hangar at a regional airport near the central city of Komaki.
The demonstration plane is expected to make its maiden flight sometime after mid-February.
Citat:Laying the groundwork for a fighter their country may field around 2030, Japanese engineers are preparing to build a demonstrator engine core, following success in materials research for the low-bypass turbofan engine they are planning for the aircraft. On the airframe side of the technology-acquisition program, another team has made much progress researching supersonic use of weapon bays for the proposed F-3 fighter. A complete demonstrator engine, including a fan and low-pressure turbine, ...
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