Japanese Defense Minister Advocates Small, Cheap Equipment

Artist's concept of F-X.
Credit: 防衛省 - https://www.mod.go.jp/j/yosan/yosan_gaiyo/2020/yosan_191220.pdf
BEIJING—Japan must move toward buying cheap and numerous equipment, Defense Minister Kono Taro said, even as the country took the next step toward developing an unusually large fighter. That step, a request for information—or for proposals—addressed to possible foreign participants in the fighter...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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