About J7W1 ingame it was long time ago designated as figther.
About Ki-61-I-tei Hien I think its probably a bug.
The only interceptor Ki-61 variant i found is this:
which is not ingame.
The entire classification is just there for gains entertainment.
GB has a tank destroyer the A30 Archer which they reclassified to a medium tank because “it fits the playstyle of one”
Why does it look so weird lol, doesn’t closely look like a J2M
Yeah it looks so weird. And it gets airspawn, i seen one in battle.
So, Gaijin said that we might get multiple-vehicle anti-air systems, right? Does that mean we might get the Type 11 SAM?
Yes, this counts as JASDF, as the version on the Toyota Mega Truck is used be the air force.
Japans FS-X support fighter project.
Very cool looking design
Yes that and maybe later on Type 03
Also ARH missile and radar system for Type 81
That looks hot. Was it ever anything more than a mockup?
It wasn’t even mockup. It was Mitsubishi variant for FS-X project which was only on paper. Model is modern one
The first pic. I found
Oh its from model in game
looks like a modified F-2, with Delta and canards to match European countries
the double tail seems too much for the design,… maybe there to counter height of a single one?
From what i found this was supposed to be a design for F-2.
The design of F-2 if japan had enough money to do a whole new airwing design ^^"
It wasn’t built, however some parts of the project were made, such as a section of composite wing, and multiple parts of the AESA radar / RWR system.
Both of these were also noted by US sources when assessing domestic FS-X before it was cancelled in favor of the cooperative design that later became F-2.
If only it wasn’t for deliberate US political pressure and bribery…
Damn. At least it looks cool. Shame that they went with the Agile Falcon instead, without having to pay ridiculous licensing fees to GD/Lockheed the FS-X might have turned out cheaper.
Wait, then that might fall under “incomplete prototype” and be viable for a new addition!
Sad to plane that never been in skies. :c
Was it? I am not sure that this project was passed to the building of parts and pn photo can be F-2 wing
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Not cheaper, but not much more expensive either. Unit cost was estimated at 100M USD, which is lower, but still close to the unit cost of the F-2. It’s worth noting here that the F-2 was produced in lower number than FS-X was intended to, driving up the price.
Development cost was estimated at 1.2B USD, while development of the F-2 cost 3.27B USD, but it is also likely development cost of the domestic FS-X would’ve exceededthe initial estimate. Development cost of the F-2 was also split 40/60, meaning only 1.96B were paid by Japan.
That being said, avoiding the technology transfer, no worry about licensing (especially for variants, this is why all F-2s are still “F-2A/B”), as well as a stronger focus on the local development would still have been a great advantage of the domestic plan.
I hope so, would be nice to at least in game see a complete domestic FS-X.
