Japanese Projects

[Orionblamblam]

Sorry for low quality. Photography forbidden this model.

Putting somethign on public display that you don't want people taking photos of? That's just *stupid.*

Especially in Japan. I hate to use stereotypes, but wherever I've gone in the US and met Japanese tourists, they've lived up to the "shutterbug" stereotype. I don't imagine it'd be any different in Japan proper.

[blackkite]

Trident! Many thanks. This is really what I saw AEROSPACE JAPAN 2008. Concerning XF5-1, photography not forbidden. How silly I am! I desperately took NE20 jet engine's pictures. NE20 is Kikka's engine.

[ryusuke]

Hi all,

I would like to post the additional information of the real Japanese stealth from Japanese Wikipedia:   

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This ATD-X was named "心神" (Shin shin) meaning "Spiritual God or the God of Mind."   In the spring of 2006, the unmanned 1/5 scale model (presumed size of 3 m length, 2 m width and 45 kg weight) had a first flight.  4 of these models were manufactured, and showed to the mass communication on September 11th, 2007.
They had 40 test flights in Hokkaido until November 2007.  
Ministry of Defense planned the start of development in 2008 and five years of development for the first flight, with the budget of 15.7 billion yen (157 million dollar) for the 2008 fiscal year.  They showed the development plan on December 5, 2007.  By the plan, its development continues fro 6 years including the flight tests.  The total budget fro the development will be 46.6 billion yen (466 million dollar).  The first flight will be in 2011.  

The fuselage will be manufactured by new composite material, and the aircraft will have stealth technology and high agility flight control system.  For the flight control system, it will have FBL (Fly by light) system developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries.  It will also have the future avionics, the multi-purpose RF sensor consists of advanced phased array radar with ECM, and the thin Radar Smart Skin Sensor attached to the fuselage surface.  The power plant will be two of the newly developed XF5-1 (approx. 5 t hp using afterburner) with newly developed Paddle style thrust vectoring system.  
From the RCS tests, the aircraft will be shown on the radar as smaller than a medium-size bird, but larger than a bug.  
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FYI
Ryusuke

[blackkite]

Japanese air self defence force only hope to get F-22.(Not F-35 AND SHINSHIN.) 

[royabulgaf]

Tony Buttler could make a book from this stuff:

Secret Projects-Airships and Great Big Flying Boats that got no further than Popular Mechanics covers

[weirc]

Re reply 24, 41

drawing and spec's for Shin Meiwa light amphibian

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%200164.html?search=shin%20meiwa%20light%20amphibian

Colin

[overscan]

PLEASE NOTE

Generic topics like this are not recommended. Please create a topic per project.

Thanks for your cooperation.

[rickshaw]

Not sure if this has been posted before.  Video of the Japanese stealth project which was posted at the start of the thread:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/R577iES8a-Q&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/R577iES8a-Q&rel=1</a>

[mz]

Thanks, seems so F-15-like on the outside. And the old fashioned X-31 style TVC? Do they really intend to put something like that or is that just for proving maneuverablitity?
Anybody notice something was blurred in the F-4 footage?

[Grey Havoc]

Yes. Experimental store, or just some bureaucrats idea of not apearing 'too warlike'?

[Triton]

Fuji Television news report concerning Mitsubishi ATD-X Shin-Shin found on YouTube mentioned by Flight Global.

NOTE: Previous link is dead.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g94C5CNIPOQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/g94C5CNIPOQ&rel=1</a>

Source: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/asian-skies/2010/05/japans-new-atd-x-technology-de.html

[Triton]

Research of Flight Control System for High Maneuver Aircraft
URL: http://www.mhi.co.jp/technology/review/pdf/454/454058.pdf


Photographs of full-size ATD-X model on display at the Japan International Aerospace Exhibition 2008.
URL: http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/176/176559/index-2.html