Japan’s Ministry of Defense Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) announced that a prototype of Tokyo’s first indigenously-designed fifth-generation air superiority fighter, the ...

A leaked image may show the famous Mitsubishi’s ATD-X Shinshin stealth fighter. An image appeared on some Chinese forums, may show the first prototype of the Advanced Technology Demonstrator-X (ATD-X) ...

Japan may be on track to develop a turbofan engine for a scaled-up fighter variant of the ATD-X Shinshin advanced technology demonstrator, scheduled to fly in 2013. A new engine uprated to 10 tons of ...

The Mitsubishi ATD-X fighter technology demonstrator could conduct its maiden flight in February, following a media rollout in Japan on 29 January. The rollout offered reporters unprecdented access to ...

The ATD-X was developed for research purposes and to test advanced stealth fighter technologies. (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan’s and South Korea’s aspirations for ...

Japan is unlikely to get the funding required to construct a stealth fighter demonstrator in 2008, with industry sources expecting the finance ministry to release only enough money to continue design ...

Static strength testing of the airframe of Japan's ATD-X stealth-fighter technology demonstrator has begun, says the Defense Ministry's Technology Development & Research Institute. The ATD-X, which is ...

Japan’s Advanced Technology Demonstrator-X (ATD-X) fighter test platform will not fly until at least late 2015 due to issues with the software that controls automatic engine restarts, according to ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ experimental fifth-generation fighter technology demonstrator X-2 “Shinshin” (formerly the ATD-X) will make its maiden flight in late April, according to sources within ...

Japan is preparing to test its first ever domestically built stealth fighter jet, Chinese and Taiwanese media are reporting. “The highly anticipated F-3, Japan’s first domestically-made stealth jet, ...

Our relationship with Japan has improved considerably over the last several decades, but this chummy relationship definitely has its limits, which manifests specifically inAmerica’s unwillingness to ...

Today the world got to know the jet that's critical to Japan's indigenous fighter design future. Until now, photos have been far from detailed and only showed limited angles. With today's official ...