{"id":194483,"date":"2008-09-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/japan-looks-at-f-15-updates-indigenous-stealth-projects\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:00:00","slug":"japan-looks-at-f-15-updates-indigenous-stealth-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/japan-looks-at-f-15-updates-indigenous-stealth-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Looks at F-15 Updates, Indigenous Stealth Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They really want the F-22, but it appears that this is simply not going to happen, so they are looking at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-09-08&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/09\/08\/AW_09_08_2008_p42-78591.xml&amp;headline=Japan+Pushes+for+ATD-X%2C+Accelerated+F-15+Upgrades\">F-15 upgrades and a stealth platform of their own<\/a>, the ATD-X.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, for legitimate defensive needs, the upgraded F-15 is all the JASDF needs.  It&#8217;s actually superior for cruise missile interception, since it has a larger antennae than the F-22, and AESA radars have <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">already<\/span> been fitted to some export models.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img137.imageshack.us\/img137\/2473\/aw09082008941l3469660eg1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They really want the F-22, but it appears that this is simply not going to happen, so they are looking at F-15 upgrades and a stealth platform of their own, the ATD-X. Honestly, for legitimate defensive needs, the upgraded F-15 is all the JASDF needs. It&#8217;s actually superior for cruise missile interception, since it has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-far-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194483"}],"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=194483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}