Remains to be seen what will happen to the engine program. I bet both the UK and Japan want to have their own 5th gen engine.
they have already announced official collaboration on next generation engine.
Japan is very good at components manufacturing and UK is very good at overall designing. win win for both parties.
Watching new Japanese and British military projects are like watching geriatric amnesiac running a marathon, may their relations end on on a higher note than last time.
Gotta be better than the Franco-German effort.
F: Hey, wanna build a new fighter?
G: OK
F: We'll be in charge.
G: Er, hows about no.
F: Weeeeell...how many you gonna buy?
G: Eight hundred million zillion, and we want our workshare to reflect that!
F: Uh, not sure we believe you.
G: No, no, we got the money, all budgeted. Really.
F: That's not how it worked out the last several times!
G: See your point. How about 50:50 then?
F: OK, 50:50 and Dassault in charge.
G: NO! Really 50:50!
F: Well, put it like that, OK then. Of course, it has to be carrier capable...
G: Oh FFS!
Japan seeks to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan’s prime minister has asked his Cabinet to secure enough funds to raise defense spending to 2% of gross domestic product in five years, of increasing the defense budget, according to the country’s defense minister.
Fumio Kishida told Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada during a meeting that Japan needs to urgently increase its defense budget by fiscal 2027, Hamada said.
Kishida also said his administration needs to review government expenditures and revenue streams, as well as decide how it can secure extra funding to increase the defense budget, Hamada added.
Japan typically spends no more than 1% of its GDP on defense; the increase to 2% would bring it in line with the aspirations of NATO members, of which Japan is not a signatory.
The proposed increase would total about $287 billion over the next five years. In comparison, Japan’s defense budget for the fiscal year that ends in March 2023 is $39.66 billion.
Japan considers North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and China’s military activity in the region as threats to the homeland. To that end, the government plans to revise its national security strategy by the end of this year. That document provides Japan with long-term diplomacy and security policy guidelines.
The defense spending announcement follows several other military-related changes, such as allowing the export of military equipment and the acquisition of longer-ranged weapons.
Japanese media has reported the country is seeking up to 500 This comes after word the Asian nation is getting standoff, air-launched missiles for its F-35 fighter jets and is increasing the range of its indigenous land-based anti-ship missile.
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing also recently announced Japan awarded it a contract for two further KC-46A tankers, bringing its fleet to six. , the first in October 2021 and another in February 2022.
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Japan seeks to boost defense budget to nearly $320 billion in 5 years: media
This Friday (2), Japanese media reported that the government of Japan intends to increase the country's five-year defense budget to up to US$ 318 billion (R$ 1.6 trillion).
As published by the Japanese agency Kyodo, the Japanese government is considering allocating at least US$ 297 billion (about R$ 1.5 trillion) to the defense sector. The value can reach the equivalent of US$ 318 billion (R$ 1.6 trillion), according to the agency.
Initially, the Japanese Ministry of Defense insisted on higher values, but accepted the reduction. The Japanese Ministry of Finance wanted the amount to be reduced to the equivalent of US$ 260 billion (about R$ 1.3 trillion), but also agreed to negotiate the increase.
With all that money Japan should be making their own weapons not just sucking up to Uncle Sam.
There is nothing particularly complicated about making a cruise missile. Even Iran can make them.
Japan also has no shortage of air to air missile designs they can adapt to the F-35 if it came to it.
There is nothing particularly complicated about making a cruise missile. Even Iran can make them.
Japan also has no shortage of air to air missile designs they can adapt to the F-35 if it came to it.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Japan is developing or to be more precise modifying the type 12 surface to ship missile into a multiple launch capable cruise missile extending the range to 1,500Km to be a stand off missile.
Here is a Japanese article covering the subject.
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Now you see, just flying low and rely on clutter is not always necessarily enough.
There is also a relationship between target RCS and the amount of fighter aircraft required to engage the targets. It's kinda crude however and rely on simple math. This is one example i did sometime ago
This relates radar detection range, available time to intercept and target RCS. One can easily notice that the lower you can have your missile's RCS your enemy could be forced to allocate disproportionate amount of aircraft to engage the salvo. It also shows crudely what kind of cruise missile each aircraft can engage.
The baseline F-16A/B like what we have here in Indonesia have only the ability to engage cruise missile down to 0.1 sqm RCS. Anything smaller may pass through. Su-35 can engage very small RCS cruise missile but that is limited to 1. Our F-16C or upgraded F-16A/B better, 1 aircraft can engage 2 cruise missiles with 1 sqm RCS but it has no capability against one having 0.001 sqm or smaller.
It also shows the incentive of having big radar and naturally big power aperture product as seen from F-15 and Su-35's. The mass amount of Chinese Su-27's deriviatives and with apparent AESA's may have driven the Type-12 design requirement.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
So?
Japan is quite knowledgeable concerning stealth. The type 12, ASM-3 and so on goes through rigorous testing before going on as well as the enhanced type 12.
Japan is also the forerunner in material science, the key component to stealth.
Do you really think the engineers are just going to patch something up because they think it looks cool?