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Japan refuses to collect American F-35 fighters

Japan will refuse to assemble the F-35 at its enterprises.

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries holds a license to assemble the F-2013 in 35, but Japan is now saying it's going to phase out production of the 5th generation American aircraft. In the country, this project was considered inefficient and excessively costly.

Recently, a five-year plan for the development of Japanese defense was published. It states that the country needs high-performance equipment for the aviation industry.

The country's government has approved a program to purchase six F-35A military aircraft from the United States. The amount of the deal should not exceed $0,61 billion. A few more than 366 million are planned to be spent on their maintenance. The adopted program will be valid until April 2020.

Tokyo, expressing dissatisfaction with the high costs of aircraft, as well as the maintenance of additional capacities, declares that it sees no point in maintaining all this for the sake of several fighters for 3-4 years. One plane costs $145 million. Because of such expenses, the competitiveness of the country's industry is lost.

Japan has previously indicated a desire to buy 42 F-35As and the same number of F-35Bs. At the same time, only a small number of aircraft were to be finally assembled in Japan under an American license, and this license is an additional, rather large cost.
 

 

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