It’s Official: A Foreign Company Will Help Mitsubishi Build Japan’s Next Fighter
Aerospace firms in the United States and the United Kingdom are likely to compete for work in co-developing Japan’s next-generation combat aircraft.
Aerospace firms in the United States and the United Kingdom are likely to compete for work in co-developing Japan’s next-generation combat aircraft.
The unmanned fighter proposal was just one of several options that Tokyo has studied as a replacement for the Mitsubishi F-2.
There is an increasing possibility that the United States and Japan may join forces on the project, which could offer big benefits to both countries.
Japanese officials have already talked with Lockheed Martin and are hoping a foreign partnership will help push the project forward.
Geopolitical trends, security concerns, and industrial and combat aircraft capability needs, could give birth to an American-Japanese Raptor 2.0.
Japan wants to spend $40 billion on a new fighter and just one fits the bill.