YS-11 and MU-2 may be used by a number of military organizations, they are indeed civil products. I mean the us army used iphone as translater etc., but I do not think you would listed iphone as military product.

that is a optcal sensor, not a cockpit.

SAM is useful when you are sure you want to shoot the thing down. In peace time you cannot do that so these kind of intercept has to be done with a manned fighter. BTW as far as I know Japan has always maintain around the clock QRA even during the early 2000’s when Russian plane less active.

When they retire the SR-71 they also said the job can be done by satelite. After the first gulf war and the ever-going North Korean nulcar issue, the SR-71 was brought back in 95 as planes still proved to be more responisble to urgent need.

I think it should be mentioned that 8th hitkotai has start the process of changing to F-2. By 2009(?) they should be an F-2 unit. And appearently even in their f-4 days, not all of the Phantom has the blue paint scheme. Some of the Phantom retained the grey color scheme. As of now, there has been some sproter report saying that all the Phantom of the 8th hikotia are now painted in the grey color scheme only.

as I recall, all decommissioned are sold as junks and forgion countries are not invited to bit at all.

More than enough and there only needed for point defense………

The offical loadout is 12 anti-submrine missile and 16 ESSM.

It sounds like a failure of leadership to me.

Commercial crews are entirely capable of keeping ships at sea for far longer than modern naval crews. Commercial ship owners would never tolerate the sort of behavior that modern navies seem to.

It is time to hold naval crews to a higher standard.

In the private sector, we just live with the problems related sharing equippments. It does not mean those bosses (e.g. ship owners) who sit in their office and do not need to go through all those trouble down on the shop floor actually have solutions to any of those problems.