Japan Tests Weapon Bay For Fast Release, Fast Flight

Credit: Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency.
Japanese engineers have overcome the challenge of designing a weapon bay for supersonic release of stores, a feature of a fighter that the defense ministry has proposed to develop for entry into service in the 2030s. A critical design objective has been achieving high but undisclosed speed in the...

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