The Japanese demonstrated the first F-35, assembled in the country
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The first F-35 combat aircraft assembled in Japan was presented to journalists at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Corporation plant in Aichi Prefecture. After the test flights, two such vehicles will be handed over to the country's air force during the current fiscal year. TASS with reference to the news agency Kyodo
The F-35 was developed by Lockheed Martin, an American corporation with the participation of a number of NATO countries and other US allies as the main combat tactical multipurpose aircraft. It is made by technology "stealth", making it unobtrusive to radar.
The Air Force, Navy, and US Marine Corps are planning to purchase more than 2,6 thousand of such fighters of various modifications over the course of several decades. In Japan, they will be assembled under license and should gradually become the basis of the country's air forces. The first F-35 is supposed to be deployed at the Misawa Air Force Base in the north of the main Japanese island of Honshu.
Total Japanese Air Force plan to buy 42 such aircraft. The United States Air Force has already deployed the 10 F-35 at the Iwakuni Air Force Base in southwest Honshu.
source: asia.nikkei.com
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