Talk:Japan Air Self-Defense Force

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Does anyone have any new information on the amount of airmen or number of aircraft the JASDF currently has? The information on this page concerning those is over 10 years old. Information on the amount of each type of aircraft in their inventory would be nice too. There is also talk within the JASDF community of them possibly purchacing F-22's in the near future, i think there should be a possible mention about their current choices somewhere here. --user:zeroyon] 4 April, 2006

One thing I know for sure is that they have around about 90 F-4Js Phantoms, and that they are looking to replace them by 2010. The US congress has not allowed the sale of the Raptor for now, so that option is out, and the F-35 won't roll off the production line until 2014 at the earliest, and since their Phantoms are already 35 years old and need replacing ASAP, that option also seems out. Another sticking point is that the japanese would want to produce their planes locally, and I don't see that happening with the Raptor. For now they have expressed interest in either the Eurofighter Typhoon, the F15E or the F/A18E (Dassault of France apparently declined to participate with their Rafale). They will apparently make up their minds sometime in october this year, it is said. Daft, 13 April, 2007

[edit] WP:MILHIST Assessment

Pretty long, pretty good start. But not nearly enough prose paragraphs - this needs to be more than organizational diagrams and bullet-point lists. LordAmeth 14:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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User:Nimbus227 added this list to the "see also" section on a large number of articles rather hastiliy. After pointing out that this could be considered spamming and was inappropriate given the relatively tenuous link to this and other articles, he agreed that they could be removed. I have removed it accordingly. John Smith's (talk) 22:10, 2 March 2008 (UTC)