The problem for the Japanese is that the defense sector of any country is supported by the government and export sales. Japan can’t export weapons under its constitution, and it’s domestic defense market is relatively small.

Even if they could export aircraft, the aerospace industry today is extremely competitive and dominated by established players. Whether it’s a new fighter or a new airliner, they’d have to go into a market dominated in the 1st world by the likes of Boeing, airbus, EADS, Lockheed, Russian, and Chinese manufacturers.

Trying to build an indigenous fighter from the ground up probably seems like a daunting and extremely expensive risk to them.

Well said… that i believe this is the main reason for the slow developement of Japanese homebred a/c. The future for Japanese aerospace industry lies with electronics upgrade of existing aircrafts and new munitions rather than the developement of a new aircraft!

Japan should consider developing a fighter industrial base with Korea, Taiwan and Singapore..the issues of money and technology look good..regional cooperation may be the stubling block.

Coop with other asian nations like the euro fighter is definately not possible.
Due to already high tensions and i doubt that either Korea or Singapore can reason it’s citizen to trust the japanese…

Well one stupid decision was by the indian government not to fund for additional powerplant for HF-24. Another dumb decision is to suspend aerospace development by denying FBW research, again on HF-24.
Really dumb, lost out atleast 3-4 decades of design experience..

… it’s all about money… i think india at the time needed to pour all the mooney onto economic developement rather than defence spending…

Canada wasn’t hostile towards anyone so they wouldn’t have been targeted by the USSR? You’re 100% sure that the Soviet Union wouldn’t have targeted Canada as a NATO ally? Might want to rethink that one, they certainly had enough warheads.

Why would the soviets waste nukes on an army that can hardly adequately arm itself let alone defende the country?

there is only about 1 million reason why the canadian military is just a tin can!

anyway by attacking Canada the Soviets have to also worry about the US! We have joint defence, so the states are required to defend Canada at all cost if war break out and the agressor wasn’t Canada!

Bluntly put…Why do we need an expensive military when we have the Americans?

Jonesy brother… 😀
i’ve got one stupid that matches or even surpases duncan sandy’s for his decision…
the name of “that other thing…” john defenbaker (or whatever the hell way of writing that) for canceling the Avro Arrow. (Canada) he argued “exactly the same” :rolleyes:

may those 2 “individuals” roth in hell :diablo:

Camaro.

We may all like the arrow..that includes me.
It was way ahead of its time when it was developed the only problem was it costed too much to develope and Canada just don’t have the resources! It was either have the Arrow or cancel the railroad… So how would you decide???

thank goodness pilot is fine. kudos to ACES! plane crashed on takeoff? could it still be salvageable?

salvageable? in a ball of flames??? it’s as salvageable as a heap of scrape

Can any one differentiate briefly China made J-11 and Su-27?

Thanks

John

J-11 domestic product except the N001 radar and the AL-31 engine, later versions carry domestic WS10 engine. Su27 is made in KNAPPO.

same plane.. although russian test pilot claim the two planes handles a little differently due to domestic engine.

As an overseas Chinese, the lesson I learned on the Japanese atrocities of WW2 has been that every human has the potential to carry out extremely horrible deeds. Not just the Japanese. And so we will have to keep ourselves in check and remember WW2, not to condemn the Japs, but to remind ourselves never to commit such horrors. Their actions just showed us what horrors we (yes, you and me) are capable of.

Sadly, my impression of Mainland Chinese is that their lessons drawn was that Japanese are an ‘evil’ race, and so they continue looking at Japanese with hatred and distrust. In fact, after looking at some of the more extremist Mainland Chinese outbursts, I believe that my point of view is only confirmed – some of the Mainland Chinese are really morphing into the ‘vile beasts’ that they accuse the Japanese of. They cannot seem to get over the fact that WW2 happened 3 generations ago. (And China only recently accused Japan of having a Cold War mentality, who’s the one having a WW2 mentality, I wonder?)

Well… your concerns are noted… but it is without bases!
We do not base our view of the Japanese solely on history but upon the action of its people! Japanese have a mentality that praise the victor and to him goes all the spoils. According to the Japanese that would be the Americans, so as to modernize Japan most Japanese learn to speak English, they learned the ways of the west. But other Asian are of another story…Japanese regard them as the weaklings that are not to be regarded as on the same level! This mentality is evident throughout Japanese society. Japanese thus led to believe that what they did in WW2 wasn’t infect atrocity but an act of nature where the weak fall prey to the strong! Why does this sound so familiar???

And how are the Chinese morphing into the ‘vile beasts’ you claim???
Did we murder innocent civilians??? Did we conduct Biological and Chemical test on the POWs??? Did we conduct germ warfare??? Did we lie to our people about what we did and did not do in WW2??? Did we claim 50 years after the war that the People we killed in WW2 were for the good of those people???

Don’t forget the Victims of WW2 have not yet all passed away so I wouldn’t call it a long time ago!!! That’s why the JFK file is not yet to be declassified for another 70years, not all of the parties involved are diseased.