Japan Pencils In 2025 First Flight For Future Fighter

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If all goes to plan, Japan will decide in the next few months how to acquire a fighter for the 2030s. The defense ministry wants to launch full-scale development in the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2019, and hopes the first prototype will fly in 2025, according to local researchers. But the...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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