The Japanese sixth generation fighter is suspiciously similar to the Soviet interceptor fighter.

Despite the fact that Japan has made relatively little progress in the development of military aircraft, this country decided to aim at creating a sixth generation fighter. According to journalists and analysts, the image of the Japanese fighter is rather suspiciously reminiscent of the Soviet Tu-128 heavy fighter-interceptor, which served in Soviet armaments for about 30 years and was considered a very promising combat vehicle.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense has published on its official website an infographic on the latest sixth generation fighter, while demonstrating the very image of a combat vehicle. It is for this reason that Avia.pro journalists drew attention to the almost complete similarity of the design of the Japanese combat aircraft with the design of the Tu-128 fighter-interceptor, which was developed in the late 50s of the last century and was withdrawn from service only in 1990.

In the photographs presented, you can compare the designs of both fighters, and although there are differences between the combat vehicles, the similarities between them are much greater.

Among other things, based on the parameters presented, it turns out that the Japanese sixth generation fighter almost exactly matches the Soviet Tu-128, which raises even more suspicions that the USSR fighter was taken as a basis.

On the other hand, it is still unknown why Japan calls the aircraft under development a sixth generation fighter, since according to the classification, a sixth generation fighter must be unmanned, or it must have an unmanned version on a par with a manned one, while the plane of the Land of the Rising Sun is exclusively manned.