Events: Japanese domestic flight within three years of stealth fighters has fallen behind China and Russia
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Data Figure: Japan Air Self Defense Force F-2 fighters.
AP, Tokyo: A senior military officer said that Japan is ready to test in 3 years from the domestic design of a prototype stealth aircraft.
Yoshioka into the show, said that the prototype could be launched in 2014, and the time to conduct test flights.
Hideyuki Yoshioka, Japan Ministry of Defense in charge of aviation system development department.
Since 2009, the Japanese know the United States Congress passed the ban on exports is unlikely to sell the most advanced jet fighter, the Japanese have invested in the project 390 billion yen (473 million).
Japan's defense depends in large part to the alliance with the United States. But China and Russia could rival the U.S. in the development of advanced stealth aircraft have made great progress.
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