Japan Evaluates C-2’s Rough-Field Performance

C-2 prototype 201.
Credit: KHI
BEIJING—Japan is evaluating the rough-field characteristics of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2, exploring a capability for which the airlifter was not designed. No announcement of the work was made, but a video and a photograph of a C-2 taxiing on an unpaved field have appeared on social...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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