{"id":186165,"date":"2014-04-19T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/19\/japans-to-fly-stealth-demonstrator\/"},"modified":"2014-04-19T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T01:31:00","slug":"japans-to-fly-stealth-demonstrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/19\/japans-to-fly-stealth-demonstrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s to Fly Stealth Demonstrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NXkGJSn.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Japan_Stealth]\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NXkGJSn.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/euzYtzO.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Japan_Stealth]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/euzYtzO.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wpfIDcQ.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Japan_Stealth]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wpfIDcQ.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Click Pix for Slide Show<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Japan is looking to <a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/20140418_atd-x-shinshin.html\">have a stealth demonstrator flying within the year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Japan\u2019s defense ministry\u2019s Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) is planning to unveil the country\u2019s advanced technology demonstrator-experimental (ATD-X) plane within months; the lightweight stealth aircraft is scheduled to make its maiden flight later this year, Japan\u2019s defense minister Itsunori Onodera has confirmed. ATD-X is positioned to become Japan\u2019s next generation stealth fighter, replacing 94 locally produced F-2 that entered service in the year 2000. Speaking to the foreign affairs and defense committee of Japan\u2019s upper house, Onodera said the indigenous fighter demonstrator is few months behind schedule.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Powered by two afterburning turbofans each developing 11,023 pounds each (5,000kg), the aircraft is designed for maximum takeoff weight of 28,659 pounds (about 13 tonnes). With a wingspan of 9 meters (29.85 feet), and overall length of 14.174 meters (46.5 ft) the ATD-X (dubbed \u2018Shinshin\u2019) will be smaller than the F-35 and much smaller, compared to Chinese or Russian stealth fighters.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I cannot see any space for any meaningful internal stowage, so I would guess that it is in the same category as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Have_blue\">Have Blue<\/a>, basically a technology demonstrator, or they are contemporaneously developing some sort of stealthy external carriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Pix for Slide Show Japan is looking to have a stealth demonstrator flying within the year: Japan\u2019s defense ministry\u2019s Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) is planning to unveil the country\u2019s advanced technology demonstrator-experimental (ATD-X) plane within months; the lightweight stealth aircraft is scheduled to make its maiden flight later this year, Japan\u2019s defense &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1188,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-japan","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}