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Lockheed Martin Offers Modified F-35 For Japan"s 2030s Next Gen Fighter Program
BEIJING—Lockheed Martin is offering an improved version of the F-35 Lightning for Japan’s requirement for a fighter to deploy in the 2030s, according to the Nikkei newspaper. Adapting an existing design is the cheapest of three options, the others being developing a fighter independently and doing so with another country, Nikkei says, citing no sources.
The paper notably fails to mention an even cheaper possibility that the government has been considering—importation of an unmodified fighter type.
Nikkei gave no details of the modified F-35, which would presumably be called the F-35J. Japan is buying 42 F-35As, assembled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), as replacements for F-4 Phantoms. For its next program it wants to replace MHI F-2s in the 2030s. MHI would presumably undertake any necessary development, fabrication and assembly of the airframe.
Britain is integrating the Meteor on the F-35 but the U.S. fighter will carry no more than four such weapons internally, and then with no room for short-range air-to-air missiles. Lockheed Martin conceivably could improve the F-35’s range and endurance with external tanks, perhaps conformal and at some cost to stealth. It also could fit the lightest Lightning version, the F-35A, with the bigger and more voluminous wing of the F-35C, the variant designed for catapult launch and arrested recovery at sea.
Japanese avionics would also be possible for an F-35J. Israel will at least load its own software on its version, the F-35I.
Lockheed Martin Offers Modified F-35 For Japan"s 2030s Next Gen Fighter Program
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Lockheed Martin Offers Modified F-35 For Japan"s 2030s Next Gen Fighter Program
BEIJING--Lockheed Martin is offering an improved version of the F-35 Lightning for Japan’s requirement for a fighter to deploy in the 2030s, according to the Nikkei newspaper. Adapting an existing design is the cheapest of three options, the others being developing a fighter independently and doing so with another country, Nikkei says, citing no sources.
The paper notably fails to mention an even cheaper possibility that the government has been considering--importation of an unmodified fighter type.
Nikkei gave no details of the modified F-35, which would presumably be called the F-35J. Japan is buying 42 F-35As, assembled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), as replacements for F-4 Phantoms. For its next program it wants to replace MHI F-2s in the 2030s. MHI would presumably undertake any necessary development, fabrication and assembly of the airframe.
Britain is integrating the Meteor on the F-35 but the U.S. fighter will carry no more than four such weapons internally, and then with no room for short-range air-to-air missiles. Lockheed Martin conceivably could improve the F-35’s range and endurance with external tanks, perhaps conformal and at some cost to stealth. It also could fit the lightest Lightning version, the F-35A, with the bigger and more voluminous wing of the F-35C, the variant designed for catapult launch and arrested recovery at sea.
Japanese avionics would also be possible for an F-35J. Israel will at least load its own software on its version, the F-35I.