Search Results
7/9/2025, 5:39:08 PM
>>509926222
The F2 is literally just a supersized f16. US policy neutered their domestic manufacturing for the last two generations out of fear of nationalistic returns, They were told any next gen fighter they built domestically would have to be a licensed variant of a US product, and that any design choices would be the IP of said US corporations.
The F2 brought us the composite fuselage and wing structure, the full aspect radar/sensor suite, and the glass manufacturing that we see in the f22 and f35.
Mitsubishi and Japan as a whole subsidized all the major developments that went into our current gen fighters, and they still cost us 1 billion dollars apiece.
The F2 is literally just a supersized f16. US policy neutered their domestic manufacturing for the last two generations out of fear of nationalistic returns, They were told any next gen fighter they built domestically would have to be a licensed variant of a US product, and that any design choices would be the IP of said US corporations.
The F2 brought us the composite fuselage and wing structure, the full aspect radar/sensor suite, and the glass manufacturing that we see in the f22 and f35.
Mitsubishi and Japan as a whole subsidized all the major developments that went into our current gen fighters, and they still cost us 1 billion dollars apiece.
Page 1