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🇯🇵 Mitsubishi F-2
Air · Mitsubishi Heavy Industries + Lockheed Martin — Japonya 🇯🇵 (ABD ortak) · 2000 (ilk uçuş 1995)
Japan's indigenous multirole fighter derived from the F-16 but with a 25% larger wing and the world's first AESA radar (J/APG-1) fitted to a fighter; its real forte is maritime strike carrying up to four supersonic anti-ship missiles.
Specifications
- Type: Multirole / maritime-strike fighter (single-engine)
- Origin: Japan (Mitsubishi HI) + USA (Lockheed Martin), 60/40 co-production
- Dimensions: Length 15.52 m · wingspan 11.13 m · MTOW 22,100 kg
- Engine: 1× General Electric F110-IHI-129 afterburning turbofan, ~131 kN
- Speed / radius: Mach 2.0 (~2,120 km/h) · combat radius ~830 km
- Sensor: J/APG-1 → J/APG-2 AESA radar (first AESA on a fighter, 1995)
- Weapons / load: 13 stations, ~8,000 kg; 4× ASM-2/ASM-3A anti-ship, AAM-4/AAM-5, JDAM, 20 mm JM61A2
- Built: 98 (94 production + 4 prototypes); ~90 in service
- In service: Since 2000 (first flight 7 Oct 1995)
Beats: F-16C Block 50 (ABD) — daha büyük kanat ve fazla iç yakıtla menzil/yük avantajı, 4 gemisavar füze taşıma kabiliyeti, Su-30 ailesi (Rusya) deniz taarruzunda — yerli AESA + ASM-3A süpersonik füze ile daha modern güdüm/atış zinciri, JF-17 (Çin/Pakistan) — F-2 dünyanın ilk AESA'lı (J/APG-1) avcısıdır ve 4× süpersonik gemisavar yüküyle deniz taarruzunda açıkça üstündür
Loses to: F-35A (ABD) — stealth, sensör füzyonu ve ağ-merkezli savaş; F-2 5. nesil değil, Rafale (Fransa) — çift motorlu beka, daha geniş hava-hava menzili (Meteor) ve daha çok-rollü silah yelpazesi, Eurofighter Typhoon (Avrupa) — üstün hava üstünlüğü ve daha yüksek itki/ağırlık oranı
Role: maritime strike. In Dec 2025 sixteen F-2s launched carrying 4 ASM-2 each (64 anti-ship missiles total) as a visible deterrent toward the Chinese navy (Liaoning). The supersonic ASM-3A (Mach 3+, ~300-400 km) is entering the fleet from FY2025, giving it best-in-class anti-ship reach. Successor GCAP/F-X only after 2035.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries + Lockheed Martin — Japonya 🇯🇵 (ABD ortak)): Type 10
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
