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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Blade on April 20, 2009, 07:14:38 AM
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:salute
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It is a very beautiful aircraft. Something about the Red Sun just makes a plane look good :)
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Never knew the Vampire flew for Japan!
Always nice to see the red bullseye on a plane :D
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I never knew they operated T-28s post war either. Nice pics. :aok
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Kewl - where is that?
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I'm curious whether all of those aircraft were actually operated by Japan, or whether the propaganda, erm, I mean education ministries simply slap Bulls-eyes on them to glorify the Empire...
Sorry, I have a stick up my bum about Japan.
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They even have a T-6 Texas there! Maybe surplus aircraft bought from the US after the war? (not sure if Japan was allowed to have military aircraft though)
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thx all :)
I like Vampire too.
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Japan purchased this Vampire T.Mk.55 for side-by-side trainer sumple in 1956. (Only one bought)
But Japan decided to adopt T-28.
This Vampire flew 1956 to 1960.(I think test flight only.)
And now , That Vampire display in Hamamatsu Air Park.
http://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/airpark/ (http://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/airpark/)
...with A6M5a Zero-sen 52gata kou
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Sorry , Im not good at English. :pray
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Thanks Blade, mata yoroshiku.
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The Japanese keep their birds in a lovely condition, sasuda.
Now an australian vampire in flying condition.
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They even have a T-6 Texas there! Maybe surplus aircraft bought from the US after the war? (not sure if Japan was allowed to have military aircraft though)
They were allowed and still are alllowed to maintain a self defence force, I don't know when that was enforced and what a self defence force refers to tho.
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They were allowed and still are alllowed to maintain a self defence force, I don't know when that was enforced and what a self defence force refers to tho.
Just enough to keep Godzilla and Mothra at bay.
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godzilla was the 1st movie monster to scare me when I was little-I still remember that an look back at how ridiculous it was.That zeke is just beautiful
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One of the best looking jets IMHO.
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The Japanese "Jietai" (self-defence force) has all the latest in weaponry including subs, fighters ,etc., upto and (some say) including nukes. Do they actually posess nuclear weapons? Probably not officially, but I'm assuming the US carriers that dock there have them and could use them in defense of Japan if the situation came up.
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Japan is officially considering building nuclear weapons in response to the North Korean threat. The JSDF role as a self-defence force only is also under questions since Japan has sent troops on international missions since the early 1990's; their last troop deployment was in Iraq. Some Japanese see these deployments as illegal and the nation is split on the issue.
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Very nic Pics. Thankyaverymuch.
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Did Japan ever operate that F-4 Phantom in the background?
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Japan is officially considering building nuclear weapons in response to the North Korean threat. The JSDF role as a self-defence force only is also under questions since Japan has sent troops on international missions since the early 1990's; their last troop deployment was in Iraq. Some Japanese see these deployments as illegal and the nation is split on the issue.
The U.S. has at least 4 nukes in Japan (2 down south in Okinawa, 1 in Yokosuka <USS Kittyhawk> and one up in Hokkaido - this does not include the various nuk-subs operating in Japanese and Chinese coastal waters) so the whole political debate is more a staged event to warn the North Koreans (in actuality, the Chinese as a long term regional competitor) that Japan could obtain Nukes a lot quicker and with a much higher yield then they could.
Troop deployment was at the request of the U.S. but they have all come home now.
The point is, the U.S. wrote the Japanese constitution in a week and included a lot of anti-war measures due to terrible texts (like the Sword and the Crisanthinum <sp>) which portray Japan as a military culture that needed christian law and order forced onto it. Now that these laws do not benefit U.S. foreign policy, it has been left to the LDP to undo them. In fact, Peace education was pushed onto the Japanese in such a strong way. . .its surprising when we see any aggression here. Ultimately, the larger China gets, the more pressure will be exerted on Japan to militaries. In typical fashion, the Chinese are trying to make up for the fact that they lost 3 modern wars against the Japanese and won none. But thats just my little tick.
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Did Japan ever operate that F-4 Phantom in the background?
Ah... yes.
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They were allowed and still are alllowed to maintain a self defence force, I don't know when that was enforced and what a self defence force refers to tho.
Nobody tells them now what they are allowed or not allowed to have now. It was only in a few years after the war that the allies decided what they could or could not have. They now call their military a "self defence force" because its in their constitution or something. If the wish they could change that and call it something else and start getting an "offencive" military again.