Mitsubishi Heavy Industries began yesterday mounting of fighter technology demonstrator next generation of ATD. It is used for ground tests.
Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD) is created at the request of the Japanese Ministry of Defence. Ma used to investigate technologies that would be used in future multi-role fighter. Today Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has begun production phase of the program. Previously constructed such model in scale 1:5.
Begin assembly of the structure of ATD was ceremonial in nature. Yesterday morning at the plant Tobishima MHI Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works in Aichi Prefecture, riveting, first performed in the presence of Yoshitaka Akiyama, Director-General of Technical Research & Development Institute Ministry of Defense of Japan, and Haruhiko Kataoka, chief of staff of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force. Workers bracket riveted to the bulkhead separating the fuel tank from the center of the hull located electronic equipment.
ATD structure after assembly is used for static tests. Verifications will correct the geometry and structural strength. This phase of the program is expected to cost 39.2 billion yen ($ 12 million).
Work on the prototype of the ATD was started during the financial year 2009. The impulse to make the final decision became the actions taken in neighboring countries, including especially in the PRC, where he is working on next-generation fighter J-20.
It was also important that the Japanese have not obtained consent for the purchase of U.S. F-22, and the performance offered them the F-35 they consider to be unsatisfactory. ATD prototype flight tests are planned for 2014, and the end of this phase of the program in March 2017. Previously, it should be decided to start building the fighter version of the target.
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