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Not much in the way of details yet. Apparently in the same class as the USN's XLUUV program, though requirements haven't been nailed down yet. Presumably will be operated by the MSDF, that is, if it ever manages to emerge from the unholy mess that is the Acquisition Technology and Logistics...

Posted in J-Aircraft.com yesterday: Dear Members of J-Aircraft.com, Once again, I am afraid it is my sad duty to inform you of the saddest news of all in this dark year of devastating loss for the aviation history fraternity. After a 22 year battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, our dear friend...

"MAST Asia 2017: Mitsui Unveils New LPD Amphibious Transport Dock Concept" Published: Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:12 Source...

http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/Japan-aims-to-launch-self-piloting-ships-by-2025 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40219682

Evening folks. I hope that someone on here may help me. I was trawling through a copy of Air Enthusiast from June 1973, as you do, and I came across a brief story about the Japanese NAL. Apparently they had formalised a basic specification for an experimental VTOL aircraft, of which two examples...

Continuing with the consolidation of Japanese aircraft topics on this forum, here's a list of all Kawasaki-related threads. As this company's activities span over eight decades and range from aircraft to helicopters and from boats to spacecraft, it was difficult to know exactly where to put this...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) 22DDH helicopter destroyer. Source: http://snafu-solomon.blogspot.com/2010/06/22ddh-japans-next-helicopter-carrier.html http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/6-62389.aspx http://oursogo.com/thread-1155047-1-1.html

From Ronnie Serrano on the "Project Terminated" page on Facebook: Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=876967599032670&set=gm.646696872124265&type=1&theater

Hi! Japan and the US have agreed to launch joint research on high-speed trimaran. The Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 4 March that it had signed a preliminary agreement on joint research into a high-speed trimaran with the Pentagon. The announcement followed the signing of a...

"Japan, Britain To Launch Joint Missile Research" Jul. 17, 2014 - 03:30PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS Source: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140717/DEFREG03/307170036/Japan-Britain-Launch-Joint-Missile-Research

From Air International 8/1982, here is the Kawasaki KV-107-X helicopter project,consider a super Chinook,developed from KV-107-II with many new features,does anyone hear about that beast before or has anyone a more info about it ?.

I thought we already had a thread on these, but I must have been wrong. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201404060014 IMAGE CREDIT: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

Videos created for Self-Defense Forces and New Generation Weapons Perfect Book DVD depicting a conjectural Japan Self-Defense Force in the year 2035 and a conjectural Sino-Japanese War. http://youtu.be/OwXDPxzeVfU http://youtu.be/ku112uQbhqs

From my dear Stingray site, the Yomiuri Y-1 was a side-by-side two seat helicopter,powered by the wartime Kamikaze-3 engine. https://sites.google.com/site/stingrayslistofrotorcraft/yomiuri-y-1

Hi all: one of the worst problem getting older is memory. Probably I said that before but... I don't remember... During the Seventies I saw a publication (perhaps a Japanes "AiReview" or "Koku-Fan" but could be also an European one) dealing with Japanese Self-Defense Air Force fighters with...

Via the Associated Press:

This is supposedly a joint Japan/US project using the Independence class as a starting point, although it seems to me to have inherited some features from at least one MSDF related project of the late '80s/early 90s. First of class to enter service in 2018, which would suggest that it's to be...

US Sea Radar Tracking N. Korean Threat By Luis Martinez | ABC OTUS News – Thu, Apr 11, 2013 With North Korea's launch of a mid-range Musudan missile believed to be imminent, a U.S. official confirms that the SBX radar has been deployed to the Pacific to assist with tracking the missile if it is...

After Japan's defeat in World War II, the manufacture of local aircraft was banned. It was only after the publication of a "Memorandum about domestic air carrier operation" issued in 1950 that development of a local civil aviation could be restarted. Then in 1952, an aviation act was...

The N-52 was the first private aircraft built in Japan after the war. It was a low-wing, side-by-side seating cantilever monoplane sport aircraft of mixed construction built by the Okamura Mfg. Co. It started as a design experiment under the supervision of Hidemasa Kimura, a professor at Nihon...