According to the United States, "Aerospace Daily," January 8, 2010 an official committee reported that the Japanese fighter aircraft industry in the country, after the assessment that the Japanese fighter is facing the risk of rapid depletion of engineering skills, the Government should avoid full import fighter. Responsible for this assessment of Japan's "fighter production technology-based Reform Commission," said: "Once the experienced engineering and technical personnel to leave the aircraft industry, rebuilding the industrial base will be difficult, the need for future fighter aircraft R & D while maintaining the industrial base. " Review reported that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (IHI) F-2 fighter program about 70% of the engineering staff have been diverted to other business units; only 60 engineers in the project based on the F-16's (F-2) work, F-2 project is currently the only Japanese fighter aircraft production projects. Moreover, F-2 production is scheduled to end in September 2011, will be IHI's General Electric F110 engine production line will be discontinued. The committee said: "At present IHI for the ATD-X stealth fighter technology demonstrator developed XF5-1 engine, this project can only delay the advancing technical capabilities of recession. For their own use of fighter aircraft, the need to maintain a complete domestic industrial base, to meet the maintenance, technical support, and performance improvement requirements. "fighter of the Commission to accept Japan's industrial base need not be totally independent of the notion that:" in many other countries due to budgetary and technical reasons, some fighter industrial base dependent on foreign resources . Japan is no exception. " The Committee reported that Japan's 1100 fighter aircraft industrial base, including companies; military aircraft airframe engineering work has now reached its peak, higher than the (per year) 1.1 million man-hours, of which 1 / 3 man-hours invested in the development of ATD-X project , 1 / 3 invested in the maintenance and the rest invested in the F-2, CX transport aircraft and XP-1 maritime patrol aircraft projects. F-2 project will be reduced by 40% the end of the military airframe structural engineering work, but by 2014, when the Japanese fighter airframe structural engineering work would be negligible. The engine and the body structure similar to the situation, due to the presence of improvement of the project makes the case of electronic system engineering work better. Therefore, in order to maintain fighter aircraft industrial base in Japan, Japan needs to combat aircraft development work. If the Japanese purchase F-35, obtained by fighter development work will be relatively minimal; contrast, the procurement of the Boeing F-15 or the F/A-18E/F fighter will get more development work; the procurement in Europe "Typhoon" fighters will get the most of the aspects of work. Currently, the Japanese can be the purchase of additional F-2 and improve the aircraft were temporarily solve the problem of shortage of aircraft engineering work, but doing so can reduce the purchase price F-2. wow gold48 wow gold307 wow gold86 wow gold208 wow gold238