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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:15PM (#25608802)
Regarding Japan, their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_F-2 had the first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_electronically_scanned_... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/APG-1 which is the key part for a modern fighter. Developed by themselves. The rest is more or less exchangable. Could have used some Mirage/Rafale/Gripen/Mig/Sukhoi too.
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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by dirtyid on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:25PM (#25609692)
F-X2 (gen 4+ with stealth), not F-2 (gen 4) which was joint JP/US project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_X-2_Shinshin

F-X2 was primarily indigenous effort after US refused to export F22s. IIRC another factor was US was not forthcoming with tech/knowledge transfer on F2 project. F-X2 still had some US help, but stopped after demonstrator. Then rebooted into F-X / F-3 Godzilla recently, international project in draft stage. So to date, no tangible gen5 effort.

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