Pilot ejects from ASDF F-15 after both engines stall

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Noripinhead at 02:53 PM JST - 12th September

Base line intro followed by "Ride into the Danger Zone!"
NuckinFutz at 02:56 PM JST - 12th September

The Japanese have in fact built several of their own fighter aircraft with the most recent introduction being the Mitsubishi F2. Japan was offered the F16 at a price of around $28 million per plane but decided instead to build (a virtual F16 clone) itself at a cost of $88 million per plane (the present F2 figher). This was a true PORK project even Taro Aso would have been proud of a decade ago!

Good flying by the pilot to put the plane down in a safe place after what was probalbly a heroic effort to restart 2 failed engines!
dennis0bauer at 03:19 PM JST - 12th September

F15's old? They are still flying F4's (i was at Misawa airshow last week)

NuckinFutz they did not built a F16 Clone, they built licensed F16's by Mitsubishi (they just renamed it F2)
OssanULTRA at 09:37 PM JST - 12th September

One other note, the US-Japan Security Alliance requires the United >States to fully protect Japan from any enemy. So, it would be quite >difficult for the Japanese public to accept the heavy cost associated >with creating their own nextgen warplane when they currently sit >comfortably and complacently behind the American shield.

While the above is obviously true, I believe that the idea of Japan developing it's own fighter aircraft from scratch is economically unattractive due to the inability and/or desire to compete in the global military market with exports. Hence it becomes far more economically viable to license the best products by others. The true value of the American shield to Japan is the nuclear umbrella. The existence of the US-Japan security alliance has never interfered with Japan's spending for it's SDF, and throughtout the cold war, the JSDF was supposed to be able to hold of the Soviets for X number of days to allow time for US reinforcements to arrive. Today with US forces spread far and wide the need for Japan to have a higher degree of self sufficiency is greater.
Betting at 10:15 PM JST - 12th September

They did some simulations of F35s against current-generation Russiand and Chinese fighters just recently. According to the news article the F35, "...was clubbed". It was a computer simulation only, but ... the real results will remain to be seen. The F-15 is still a pretty good fighter in the American inventory with AWACs to back it up.
mushroomcloud at 11:11 PM JST - 12th September

"While the above is obviously true, I believe that the idea of Japan developing it's own fighter aircraft from scratch is economically unattractive due to the inability and/or desire to compete in the global military market with exports."

That said, it would be pretty nice to see some Japanese designed and manufactured fighters, even though this possibility is remote.
Betting at 12:02 AM JST - 13th September

Give it up MC hehe. It just ain't gonna happen due to the cost and the complexity of relations with the rest of Asia. Asia still has issues with Japan ... just imagine what would happen if Japan increased it military spending on aircraft. That would cause a real outcry.
OssanULTRA at 12:06 AM JST - 13th September

"That said, it would be pretty nice to see some Japanese designed and manufactured fighters, even though this possibility is remote."

Technologically of course Japan not only has the ability but they even have a history. The Zeros floored the west when first confronted and weren't beat till we figured out they had literally no armor. The Nakajima Ki-84 was found, after US testing post war, that if the Japanese had real aviation fuel in the latter days of the war, that plabe may have actually given the P-51s escorting the B-29s some serious problems. All said, I believe the area where Japan today can and should make the biggest contribution to the military industry is in the area of robotics, in which Japan is far ahead of every other country. I'm not talking Anime robots per se, but ideas like complete pilot/aircraft integration systems and the like, which would put the western powers far ahead of the opposition.
Schutzstaffel at 12:11 AM JST - 13th September

OssanULTRA- this is incorrect. The Zero fighter did not have to fighht the best allied fighter of the time The Spitfire. The Spitfire was not used in the British air force in Asia.

The Japanese military of all forces including bair force are now very poor. Not fighting in combat missions will ensure you cannot be an effective fighting machine.
mushroomcloud at 12:34 AM JST - 13th September

"OssanULTRA- this is incorrect. The Zero fighter did not have to fighht the best allied fighter of the time The Spitfire. The Spitfire was not used in the British air force in Asia."

The Zero fighter did go against the Spitfire, and I quote:

'They were used to being able to outmanoeuvre opposing fighters and were shocked to discover that the Zeros they were now flying against were able to out-manoeuvre the Spitfire. Several Spitfires were lost before the pilots learned not to attempt to get into a turning dogfight with the agile Japanese fighters. In spite of these problems the Spitfires were reasonably successful and at times were able to catch the Mitsubishi Ki-46 reconnaissance aircraft which had hitherto flown fast enough and high enough to evade interception.[52]'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupermarineSpitfireoperational_history
OssanULTRA at 12:53 AM JST - 13th September

""OssanULTRA- this is incorrect. The Zero fighter did not have to fighht the best allied fighter of the time The Spitfire. The Spitfire was not used in the British air force in Asia."

Schutzstaffel

Mushroomcloud already responded to the inaccuracy of the second sentence above. As to the first sentence, while I recognize that it may be subjective, I consider the North American P-51D and the Corsair, both used right into the Korean War, with the Corsair being the only prop fighter to ever take out a MIG jet fighter to be the best allied fighter planes produced during WWII.
ColAmerica at 01:01 AM JST - 13th September

OssanULTRA- The Zero Fighter was not a bad plane at the time, but certainly not the top, now way buddy.

Hey, you seem to love everything Japan, even their killing machine, kind of hypocritical huh?
mushroomcloud at 01:10 AM JST - 13th September

Besides being a light weight maneuverable plane, the Zero was not all that great and was shot down easily due to a lack of armor. The US produced an array of fighters (Mustang, Hellcat, Lightning, Corsair) that decimated the Zero. Gotta love the industrial might of the United States.
OssanULTRA at 02:02 AM JST - 13th September

OssanULTRA- The Zero Fighter was not a bad plane at the time, but >certainly not the top, now way buddy. Hey, you seem to love everything Japan, even their killing machine, kind >of hypocritical huh?

I just wrote that the best WWII fighter planes were the Mustang and Corsair. Are you somehow under the impression that those were Japanese planes? Obviously you know nothing about the Zeroes. They ran rings around the Brewster Buffaloes, the Grumman Wilcats P-36s and even the P-40s. It wasn't until we got our hands opn one in the Aleutians that we learned their achilles heel. From then on our planes started getting bult like tanks. If you aren't versed in the subject and just want to taunt and name-call please refrain from posting.
cwhite at 03:41 AM JST - 16th September

if Japan ops to build their own variant like the F-2 www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f2/ in the future I would imagine they would incorporate remote stealth technology. I can just picture them sitting in a dark room with PS4 pads with their eyes glued to a 100inch LCD screen. Add some www.emotiv.com technology and Sony along with Nintendo can develop the platform. The (ground) pilots will have all the necessary training from age 5 working their way up from DS, PSP, Wii, XBOX and PS3.