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Japanese Stealth Fighter Announced as 'Return of the Zero'
reporter writes "According to a news article by the Associated Press, Tokyo has begun developing an indigenous stealth jet fighter that will be deployed in 2016. Mitsubishi, the prime contractor, has already developed a full-scale model, of which several pictures have been accidentally leaked to the press. The model is named 'Mitsubishi ATD-X"'. A laboratory of the French government has evaluated the "stealthy-ness" of ATD-X, and given it a high rating. Will ATD-X achieve air superiority over the F-22, which Washington refuses to sell to Tokyo?"
Vanilla Ice to Japan: Drop that zero and get with the hero.
Precisely. All that equipment we're carrying to detect gaseous anomalies - the thing's got to have a tailpipe!
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
but theirs will tranform a la Robotech or Gundam!! They'll mix some ASIMO tech in there for good measure... it that respect they are two decades a head of the US. Building high tech planes is easy compared to microprocessors or advanced electronics or robots which they're way ahead of us at doing.
it's back to man-vs-man... like it should be
True, but this time with "Predator like" cloaking technologies. Thanks to the University of Tokyo, big strides have been made in this area.
My solution would be to cover yourself in mud... Hey, it worked for Schwarzenegger!
Life is not for the lazy.
But what about the transforming capabilities? How many vehicle modes does it have? Will it have just the standard 2-arms and 2-legs robot mode, or will there be a third hybrid form that looks like a crab or a squid, or something?
Godzilla is Japan's primary enemy. They need that stealth fighter to drive him back to Sea.
"Wrong. The best defense is to make sure the other guy actually has something to loose."
:)
I'm trying, I really am. BUT, WTF!!! Do you mean "LOSE"? How can you post an otherwise reasonable reply and not know the difference between "lose" and "loose"? I don't mean to loose the grammar Nazi buried in me on you but I can't stand it! I guess I have a screw loose in that area. Even more excruciating, your post WAS otherwise insightful. I guess I have nothing to lose but karma.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
You should have asked if the plane can combine with others to form a superior robot!
Sheesh, what's wrong with you realists?
Japanese were also quite brutal. Usually we hear about the suicide pilots who would crash their planes into enemy ships but they also raped and tortured enemies and their "creed" (for lack of a better term) was "fight to the death". They would then mutilate bodies of killed enemies stuffing their genitals in their mouths etc. This was done to demoralize the Allied troops.
Now personally I do not believe the Japanese are still like this.
Uh, did you bother to do *any* research before you arrived at this conclusion? 20 seconds on google turns up a few hundred thousand pages documenting Japanese people stuffing genitals in mouths.
Sheesh, what's wrong with you realists? Well duh! That's like asking if it's gonna have a landing gear.
You can't take the sky from me...