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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...