What You Need to Know: The U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) recently conducted a joint "elephant walk" at Misawa Air Base, showcasing aircraft like the F-16 Fighting Falcon ...

Japan’s ambitious FS-X project that transformed the F-16 into a maritime-strike and air-superiority powerhouse for the JASDF.

JASDF Fighter carries a name that is a combination of the unofficial nickname of the F-16 (“Viper”) and the well-known Mitsubishi A6M Zero. At the beginning of the 1980s, the Japanese Air Self ...

The Viper Zero made her maiden flight on 7 October 1995 – 21 years after the original F-16 did so – and entered into official operational service with JASDF in 2000. A total of 98 airframes ...

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer and F-16 Fighting Falcons conducted bilateral joint training with Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-2s off the coast of Northern Japan, April 22, 2020.

After the acquisition of 50 AGM-158B JASSM-ER missiles last year, Japan has now been granted the approval for 16 additional AGM-158s, reinforcing the JASDF’s long-range stand-off strike ...

The JASDF has grounded its remaining F-35 aircraft pending results of an investigation. But as the flight data recorder for the aircraft is in waters with a depth of about 4,900 feet (1,500 meters ...

Participants included 4 F-22s, an F-16 and two KC-135 refueling planes of the U.S. Air Force, and four F-35s of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's 3rd Air Wing, a JASDF statement said.

Those two fighters are backed up by the F-2, a jet based on the American F-16. That plane is set to retire in 2035. As of now, the JASDF is full of decidedly American tech.

However, the four F-35Bs are “scheduled to be deployed” after 2024 with the 5th Air Wing at Nyutabaru Air Base on Kyushu island, the MoD added. It is likely that the F-35Bs will be deployed ...

Nobuo Kishi, the Japanese minister of defense, said July 16 that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force or JASDF base of Nyutabaru on the east coast of the island of Kyushu was “the best fit” to ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) recently conducted a joint “elephant walk” at Misawa Air Base, showcasing aircraft like the F-16 Fighting ...