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1982
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WORLD'S AIR FORCES maritime patrol Boeing 737-200s fitted with side-looking radar next year. The Boeings will join a C-130H-30MP on long-range maritime patrol, leaving the 12 GAF Nomad Searchmaster Ls for inshore surveillance. Five HU-16B Albatross handle SAR and casualty evacuation around the islands. Nur- tanio-built C.212 Aviocars are replacing the C-47s and 14 GAF Nomad Search- master B utility aircraft are on order to join the six in service. The Nomads are supplied under a joint Australian- Indonesian defence programme. Heli copters in service are ten ex-Nether lands Navy Wasps in the shipboard ASW role. Twelve MBB B0105Cs, licence-built by Nurtanio, are tasked with inshore patrol, while three each of Alouette lis and Ills are used for liaison. Four Bell 47Gs comprise the training element. JAPAN Japan Air Self-Defence Force After continual pressure from the USA, Japan has decided to increase defence spending. The 1982 budget totals. $11,490 million or 0-933 of Japan's gross national product, a 7-75 per cent increase over the 1981 budget. Over the next five years Japan hopes to buy 70 to 80 additional F-15J Eagles, two more E-2C Hawkeyes, and extra C-130H Hercules. This would bring the number of Mitsubishi-built F-15s on order to between 170 and 180 and put ten Hawkeyes on the flightline. The five-year plan also in cludes a further 45 Kawasaki-built Lockheed P-3C Orions, bringing the number eventually in service to 90 aircraft. The plan will also provide more tanks, ships, and submarines. The first F-15J unit, the 202nd Air Squadron has formed, acting as an operational training unit; the first E-2C Hawkeye has been handed over, and the crews are in training with Grumman at Bethpage, and will be flown to Misawa AB early next year. Meanwhile, the fleet of Mitsubishi- built F-4EJ Phantoms is to be up dated. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was awarded a $5 million initial contract with another $34 million to follow. The Phantoms will be fitted with the F-16's Westinghouse APG-66 radar, the F-15's IBM 1075 AYK central computer the A-10's Litton inertial navigation fit, a Hazeltine APX-76 IFF, and a Kaiser VDO KM-808 headup display. The F-4s will also be modified to accept the L-model AIM-9 Sidewinder and the F-model AIM-7 Sparrow, plus the new Mitsubishi Type 80 (ASM-1) anti-ship missile and an indigenous radar warning receiver, the Tokyo Koku Kiki APR-4. The 100 Phantoms will then be retained in service until at least 1995. Japan is also to fit its own electronic countermeasures equip ment to its F-15s; the ALQ-8 was developed after US reticence to supply. JAPAN TYPE F-15EJ Eagle F-4EJ Phantom RF-4EJ Phantom F-104J Starfighter Mitsubishi F-1 E-2C Hawkeye Mitsubishi C-1A NAMB YS-11 MU-2J/S C-130H Hercules Mitsubishi T-2 Mitsubishi T-1 T-33 T-34 Queen Air KV-107 S-62A CH-47 Chinook BQM-34A JMSDF P-3C Orion P-2J Neptune S-2F Tracker PS-1 US-1 SH-60B Seahawk SH-3A/B Sea King S-61A/S-62 KV-107-11A YS-11 T-34 King Air C.90 Fuji KM-2 Queen Air JGSDF LR-1 L-19 TL-1 TL-2 AH-1S Cobra KV-107-11 UH-1B/H TH-55 OH-6 KH-4 CH-47 Chinook NO 12(88*) 135 14 125 60 8* 31 10/1 25/3 4* 70 50 60 50 3 32 7 10* 12* 3(41*) 80 21 19 7 2* 63 12 10 6/4 10 4* 31/1* 25 15 10 2 2* 2/14* 50 60/70 30 140 8 10*(?) ROLE AD AD/attack Recce AD Attack AEW Transport Transport' ECM SAR/Cal Transport Trainer Trainer Trainer Trainer Liaison SAR SAR Transport Drone ASW ASW ASW MP SAR ASW ASW SAR MCM Trainer/ transport Trainer Liaison Trainer Trainer Liaison Liaison Trainer Trainer Anti-tank Transport Transport Trainer Trainer Trainer Transport The JASDF continues study of a new ground-attack aircraft designated SF-X, to replace Mitsubishi F-ls from 1990, and later the F-4s. The new trainer project M-TX has been awarded to Kawasaki as the XT-4. The aircraft will replace the Fuji T-1 as an inter mediate-level trainer. Weighing 12,000 lb the XT-4 will be armed with two wingtip-mounted, infrared-guided mis siles for a secondary point-defence role, and will be a tandem-seat layout powered by two turbofan engines. The prototype is due to fly in mid-1985 and up to 250 aircraft are required. 1982 saw the formation of a dissimilar air combat training squadron at Tsuiki AB equipped with F-ls, T-2s, and T-33s, the aerobatic team, Blue Im pulse, re-formed on Mitsubishi T-2s. Ten CH-47 Chinooks were ordered for delivery between 1983 and 1986. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force The first Lockheed-built P-3C Orions are in service with the JMSDF, of the 45 on order at present. The five-year plan outlined above could result in Kawasaki production of the Orion running to 90 aircraft. The three Orions with the 6th Air Squadron will be joined by the first Kawasaki-built aircraft next May. Seven P-3Cs were allocated in the 1982 budget. The Har poon-armed P-3Cs will replace the Kawasaki P-2J Neptunes. Also on order are two Sikorsky HS-60B Seahawks for shipboard ASW from the new 5,000-ton frigates on order. The SH-60s will be bought green and fitted with mainly Japanese mission avionics. Also on order are four Teledyne Ryan BQM- 34As, and a similar number of MQM-74C drones. Japan Ground Self-Defence Force Ex pansion and modernisation of the JGSDF is taking a back seat to the needs of the JASDF and JMSDF for the time being, but the ground forces are to receive 12 Bell AH-1S Cobra/ TOW anti-tank helicopters from the 1982 budget, against the 22 requested to set up an initial two squadrons. The Cobra requirement is for 56 air craft. The transport element is to re ceive "some" of the 40 Boeing CH-47 Chinooks it needs, thought to be no more than ten in this initial order. The CH-47s are to replace the KV- 107s while the UH-lHs are expected to be replaced by UH-60s from around 1985. The first of Japan's E-2C Hawkeyes flying on test from Grumman's Bethpage plant FLIGHT International, 6 November 1982 '381
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