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is all business! In the excuse of hyping up the "China-Russia threat", Japan is giving the green light to its country's foreign arms exports. The latest Japanese media disclosed that Japan intends to export fighter jets , missiles and other weapons to 12 countries, but if you think about it carefully, the problem is that Japan does not seem to be able to export immediately now?
NJI News recently reported that the Japanese government plans to relax the export supervision of high-tech weapons and allow the export of fighter jets, missiles or other weapons to some countries. As soon as possible, the relaxation of the regulation of allowing arms exports may be completed in March next year. Kyodo News also reported at the same time that Japan intends to modify the "House of the Three Principles of arms exports " that have lasted for many years. This principle was originally intended to restrict Japan's export of weapons to countries that are embargoed by the UN weapons, to socialist countries and countries that are or are about to have international disputes (such as wars).
Picture: Fully armed F-2 prototype, one pair of lower wing racks than F-16
Nikkei News said that once the arms export "release order" is passed, Japan intends to export high-tech weapons to 12 countries. These countries are India, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines , the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy. Previously, Japan had signed a "Defense Equipment and Technology Transfer Agreement" with these countries to allow the import of Japanese arms manufacturing.
Picture: F-2 is a fighter bomber that focuses on the ability to strike the sea
is about to be lifted. Japanese military industry, including Mitsubishi , Fuji Heavy Industry ( Subaru ), and other companies are already hungry. By manipulating the "four-side dialogue", Japan has set its sights on India, the big customer in the eyes of arms dealers, and the loyal allies of the United States, even the United States itself, are also within the vision of Japanese arms dealers. At present, they have exported arms to Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and , and tried their best.
Picture: F-2 Elephant Walking
From the perspective of the type of arms exporting, it is one thing to sell half-sold and half-send coast guard patrol boats to the Philippines and other countries, and fighter jets with a total export volume of hundreds of millions and billions of dollars is another thing. In terms of arms exports, South Korea has taken advantage of its unique advantages in ground equipment and marine defense equipment. K-9 self-propelled howitzer , frigate , etc. have occupied a certain market, but for the United Kingdom, the close allies of the United States, South Korea can only export supply ships. In comparison, Japan started late.
Picture: India also purchased K-9 self-propelled howitzer
From the added value, it is quite difficult for Japan to export fighter jets to these countries. The fighter jets that Japan can export now are mainly the Mitsubishi F-2 supported fighter jets, known as the "Heisei Zero War", while the F-3 (F-X) stealth fighter is now on the drawings, and the X-2 "Mind" is also a technical verification aircraft rather than a fighter.
Picture: F-2, the General Electric F110-GE-129 engine produced by Ishikawashima Kaori license, is a fighter jet that was copied and improved by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on the basis of the 40 batch of fighters of Lockheed Mart F-16C/D "Fighting Falcon" Block 40 batches. In fact, it has been suspended for 11 years. In 2011, the 94th (including 4 prototypes), the last F-2, was removed from the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Komaki South factory. Since then, the F-2 production lines have been closed. Restarting the production line means that it will take a lot of money to update and technically transform the production line.
Picture: F-2 can use ASM-3 supersonic anti-ship missile
and F-2 fighter , which itself is already very expensive.
Compared with F-16C/D, F-2 does use Japan's most advanced radar and avionics technology in the late 1990s, and uses J/APG-1 active phased array fire control radar (due to the performance of the early models not meeting the standards, 67 F-2s later replaced the APG-2 radar), but the cost of the F-2 is as high as 11.2 billion yen (nearly US$100 million). Including the rise in prices over the past 10 years, if you really want to sell it, the price will definitely not be cheaper than the US F-16V. Its market ownership, market reputation, maintenance spare parts, etc. have no advantages compared to F-16.
Picture: P-1 (right) It is not easy to break the monopoly of P-8 (left)
However, Japan Aviation Industry has two other types of fighter jets for export. One is the Kawasaki P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which is also a kind of anti-submarine that Japan focuses on promoting to the outside world. It can be benchmarked against the Boeing P-8 of the United States, as well as unique new technologies such as fiber control and three-sided phased array radar. The other is the C-2 military transport aircraft developed at the same time. It is a tactical transport aircraft with a load capacity between C-130 and C-17. Japan has been actively promoting it to the UAE.
Picture: C-2 has been shipping goods to Ukraine (nearby) many times recently, but in fact it is advertising
Although both fighter jets are mass-produced, the problems encountered are the same as those encountered by the F-2. Countries that are able to buy, such as these 12 countries, will basically tend to buy American goods, and they also give the United States a "vote letter". The cost-effectiveness of Japanese fighter jets is not outstanding, and they cannot compare with Korean weapons at all. As a servant of the United States, why do they want to give Japan face?
