Don ChanDon Chanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-1
“Type 80 Air-to-Ship Missile”
] The major launch platforms for the Type 80 are the
] Mitsubishi F-1, JASDF F-4EJ Kai and Mitsubishi F-2.
OK. I sit corrected.
(Off-topic alert.)
The JMOD site has an article about the MiG-25P (Perekhvatchik or “Interceptor”) Foxbat A “31 Red”, at
http://www.clearing.mod.go.jp/hakusho_data/1977/w1977_04.html
with a small map of its flight path, at
http://www.clearing.mod.go.jp/hakusho_data/1977/w1977_04001.html
where the radar site and interceptor icons are self-explanatory.
The radar sites vectored flights of F-4s to intercept it, but the radar sites and F-4s kept failing to detect or track it. They were still searching for it, until the prefectural police at Hakodate AP reported it had landed there.
Guess who in Japan resigned soon afterwards?
Don Chanactually, this reminds me of when I played the computer game Strike Commander and its add-on Tac Ops 1, by Origin, the game maker famous for its Ultima series of phantasy RPGs. in the flight sim Strike Commander, the protagonist was a merc who led a squadron of F-16s.
as I played falcon 3.0 and its add-ons (F/A-18, FS-X, and MiG-29) for IIRC about two years, before I played Strike Commander, mud-moving in Strike Commander was easy, IMO; and in the end, I achieved more ground kills than air kills in Strike Commander: not because the AI wingmen shot down more bandits than me, but because we collectively shot down as many bandits as in-range and on-screen, and I blew up more ground targets than the lot of wingmen.
the trick here was: when the protagonist RTB, blowing up the buildings at the home base counted as ground kills. thus, when I RTB, and had any unexpended free cannon ammo or cheap iron bombs, I expended them on said buildings. 8D
I once made a screen cap of the sierra hotel screen, which listed the pilots’ air and ground kills, so I could brag about it to friends, but of course I lost this screen cap, aeons ago.
Don Chan] The F-1 was still sufficient as a naval strike fighter as it would have been the F-4 at hand.
Correct me if I’m wrong: I don’t think the JASDF F-4s can launch anti-ship missiles?
I thought they are more tasked as interceptors? (And failed to intercept a certain MiG-25…)
IIRC, although the JASDF F-4s can drop iron bombs, their pilots would need the Argentina pilots’ bravery to drop iron bombs against hostile naval targets.
] After the second Iraqi War in 2003 Japanese soldiers were seen the first time outside Japan again.
In the ’90s, weren’t the JGSDF already in UN PKO missions in Africa, Middle East, or Southeast Asia, such as Cambodia?
Or were those only Jap police officers?
] from memory they are using them in dedicated maritime strike squadrons, rather then Air-Defense
Agreed. The F-2 is designed to carry four anti-ship missiles, while the F-1 carries two.
] Besides, like the F-2, the Ching-Kuo is also of the F-16 family, i.e. Lockheed Martin helped construct the Ching-Kuo, as it did the F-2.
Some Netters commented that the IDF could’ve been similar to the FS-X if Japan domestically developed and produced a new two-engine strike fighter in the ’80s, without the then-new Bush I administration rudely re-opening and re-negotiating the FS-X contract, when the Jap economy ruled the world.
Don Chanhttp://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/10/31/science-as-china-obit-qian_7070603.html
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/rise-china/53252-father-chinas-space-tech-program-dies-98-a.html
Saturday, 31 October 2009:
QIAN Xue Sen, the rocket scientist who’s “the father of nukes, rockets, and satellites” in Red China, has bought the farm. He was 98.
English Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsue-Chu_Tsien
Don Chanhttp://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/091102/8/1u52h.html
Sunday, 1 November 2009:
Fokker 50. “ROC Air Force One”.
Presidential flight, ROCAF.
1:28 PM, with President Ma as passenger, after it landed at CCK AB, Tai Chung County, rear wheels #3 and #4 of right landing gear, caught fire and smoked.
The fire was quickly extinguished, and the ROC MND claimed the brakes overheated.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/091102/1/1u51z.html
Saturday, 31 October 2009:
LIU Zhi Bin, a MP of 353rd Battalion, stationed at CCK AB, Tai Chung County, was awarded by ROC Minister of Defense GAO Hua Zhu.
On the night of 17 September 2009, Liu was on duty when two cars tried to enter the AB. In the cars were six drunk pilots, two of whom had no ROCAF ID. Liu refused to let them enter without proper ID, despite one of the pilots, group or squadron commander Colonel Zeng loudly complained.
After the matter was investigated, Zeng was subsequently verabally reprimanded.
Don ChanAFAIK, a South Korean newspaper reporter, in the back seat of an USAF Thunderbirds F-16.
“YU Yong Weon, the Chosun Ilbo’s senior reporter for military affairs.”
Examples of his articles, translated into English:
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703050029.html
http://koreana.or.kr/months/news_view.asp?b_idx=143&lang=en&page_type=list
Don Chanhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091029-00000092-san-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091028-00001369-yom-soci
Drawings of the JDS Kurama collision.
For another example:
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091030-00000554-san-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091030-00000096-san-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091030-00000541-san-soci
On 29 October 2009, about 11:55 PM, in the Iyo Sea, 5.4 klicks from Iyo City, Ehime Prefecture, the parked JDS Miyajima (510 tons, 40 crew, based at Kure, Hiroshima) was rammed from her port-aft, by a Japanese fishing boat (4.99 tons, two crew) on auto-pilot.
The fishing boat crew were busy on her deck with the, well, fishing equipment.
The JMSDF boat reportedly had only one crew on duty in her bridge.
BTW, months ago, JMSDF boats already misfired their cannons at civilian houses, just as the USS Ramage, USN, did in Poland, a few days ago.
Don Chanhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091029-00000708-yom-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091029-00000029-maip-soci
JCG said, based on AIS (automatic identification system) and radar data, the 7,401 tons container ship Carina Star at 12-14 knots (22-26 km/h) was moving at twice the speed of the 9,046 tons Panama freighter at six knots (11 km/h) moving eastwards before her, so tens of second before they would collide, she decelerated, turned left, and entered the opposite-direction “lane”, into the way of the 5,200 tons JDS Kurama moving westwards; while JCG traffic control advised the freighter to slip to starboard.
This is just another of a few accidents, collisions, and fires involving JMSDF ships in recent months.
Don Chan] 22DDH?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyuga_class_destroyer
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/13500%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E5%9E%8B%E8%AD%B7%E8%A1%9B%E8%89%A6
Wiki says the 13,500 tons 16DDH (DDH-181 JDS Hyuuga) and 18DDH (DDH-182 JDS Ise) replace two Haruna Class DDHs that retire.
The 19,500 tons 22DDH and 24DDH, if funded and realised, replace two Shirane Class DDHs that retire; but Wiki doesn’t seem to have article about these two vapourware yet.
Don Chan] The destroyer Kurama
DDH-144 JDS Kurama.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8F%E3%82%89%E3%81%BE_%28%E8%AD%B7%E8%A1%9B%E8%89%A6%29
] was damaged yesterday in a collision with a South Korean freighter in the Kammon Straight, Japan.
IMO, “and there was much rejoicing” amongst South Korean military fans, as their civilian freighter did what their navy couldn’t. 8b
Don Chanhttp://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200910/091022/09102211.htm
16 October 2009:
SS-503 JDS Hakuryuu [White Dragon], JMSDF.
Koube factory, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Koube City, Hyougo Prefecture.
Enters water. Third of Souryuu Class submarine.
Enters service, about 2011 March.
Length, 83.7 m. Weight, 2,960 tons.
Six forwards torpedo tubes that can fire Harpoons. About 70 crew.
Don Chanhttp://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!xPONHX2FExqC3uQQZIVP/article?mid=1325
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!xPONHX2FExqC3uQQZIVP/article?mid=1313
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!xPONHX2FExqC3uQQZIVP/article?mid=1301&prev=-2&next=-2&page=1&sc=1#yartcmt
(Articles in Chinese.)
10-11 October 2009:
News and photos of ROCAF F-104 4420 in USA, in Flyboy’s blog.
The museum got an engine that’s flown for 2,000 hours.
Obviously, the blogger reads/writes English, but to post in a Yahoo! Taiwan blog, you need a Yahoo! Taiwan ID, which I have.
I’m guessing the Greeks, Italians, or Turks may still have some F-104 spare parts somewhere in their air force depots, that they might dump onto the museum?
Don ChanSpeaking of Chicom aerospace engineering in the good old days, just saw this new article:
http://mil.news.sohu.com/20091012/n267287174.shtml
(Article in Chinese.)
12 October 2009:
Shen Yang JJ-1 sub-sonic jet trainer.
Only three were made in 1958. This domestic project was discontinued after they appeared for the National Day show in 1958.
(By 1956, the Chicom was license-producing the Type 56 (MiG-17) fighter = J-5 anyway.)
] South Africa was under an UN-weapons-embargo already
ISTR South Africa was or is a producer of diamonds and uranium, so it was geo-political convenience in the good old days (of the Cold War) for USA to tolerate the bad South African government, just as it tolerated or tolerates the bad dictators and governments in China (pre-1989), Egypt, Imperial Iran, Iraq (post-1979), Saudi Arabia, South Korea (pre-presidential elections), South Viet Nam, Taiwan (pre-presidential elections), &c.
Don Chan] It is the opposite policy if you compare it how they dumped cheap (less quality planes like F104, F5, F16A) planes on the market and destroyed opponents.
Don’t know about the F-5A and F-16A, but WRT the F-104, Lockheed bribed a lot of people to dump it on said people’s countries. Maybe the Chinese and Russian trainer makers are bribing, eh, offering collateral goods or services in similar ways, into their new customers?
] Some goodies from CDF:
Looks like… a mannequin in blue uniform, holding a fake SA-7.
Oh. You meant the planes behind him.
] Israel copied a Mirage because France backed out from their contractual obligations.
IIRC, the Kfir is a hybrid, of a French Mirage fuselage, and an US jet engine. Israel then sold its derivative the Dagger to Argentina, South Africa, &c? Did the French or the Yanks grumble, and suggest an arms embargo against Israel?
] Historically no country has ever copied as much as China.
On second thought, the Chicom has mobile SAMs… inspired by the French Crotale too.
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