{"id":194254,"date":"2008-10-12T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/12\/i-wonder-if-some-of-those-tranch-3-options-will-go-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T11:30:00","slug":"i-wonder-if-some-of-those-tranch-3-options-will-go-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/12\/i-wonder-if-some-of-those-tranch-3-options-will-go-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder if Some of Those Tranch 3 Options Will Go to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Eurofighter is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/06\/316781\/eurofighter-gets-serious-about-japans-f-x-contest.html\">pushing very hard to win Japan&#8217;s F-X contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The leading contenders are the Typhoon, the Super Bug, and an F-15E variant.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese already operate the F-15, and have assembled C and D models, and Australia uses the F\/A-18E\/F, which gives both aircraft an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The Typhoon&#8217;s advantages will come down to supercruise, an area where the Japanese have expressed interest, and frontal radar cross section, where the F-15 variants lose, but the Typhoon and the Super-Hornet have an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>As an interceptor, the Typhoon is clearly superior, at least if fitted with an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar.<\/p>\n<p>Given its relatively feeble air-to-air capabilities, I can&#8217;t see the JSF being used in air defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Eurofighter is pushing very hard to win Japan&#8217;s F-X contest. The leading contenders are the Typhoon, the Super Bug, and an F-15E variant. The Japanese already operate the F-15, and have assembled C and D models, and Australia uses the F\/A-18E\/F, which gives both aircraft an advantage. The Typhoon&#8217;s advantages will come down to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194254"}],"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=194254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}