Japan plans more upgrades of F-15s instead of F-22s

The Japanese Ministry of Defense will ask parliament for 95 billion yen to upgrade 22 F-15Js and buy parts for a further 38 in the budget year that begins April 1, 2009. The move was foreshadowed as an interim response to U.S. refusal to sell Japan – or any ally – the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor...

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