Speaking of which, the Japanese Ministry of Defense and the Self-Defense Forces are rather strange existences, on the one hand, they are content to be military vassals and junior brothers of the United States, and on the other hand, they are ambitious. The rise of China has naturally aroused the vigilance of the Japanese, and they have also made efforts to strengthen the building of the Self-Defense Forces, but in terms of military technology, the Japanese do not mind getting "help" from China at all. This has something to do with the pragmatism and learning ethnicity of the Japanese people.

They were not afraid that the military technology they had acquired from China would make the Chinese army understand them better, and the arrogance in their hearts made the Japanese realize that they could create better equipment than Chinese weapons by absorbing these things.

In addition to Japan's access to the Chunshio-class AIP submarine design plan and materials provided by China, Japan is also actively seeking cooperation and technology transfer in other fields. Qi Yiming regards Japan as an adversary in the future, although he does not look down on Japan's military ability, but if it is fattened, it will be very troublesome, so he basically maintains a state of strict defense against Japan. Only a few quarters, in the spirit of cheating Japan and the United States, have released a little flawed technology to deliberately fool them.

One of the most conspicuous of these is the tender for Japan's FS-X program. Japan has been under the surveillance of the United States for a long time, but it is still developing its own military industry in a step-by-step and secretive manner; although many military industrial departments lack key technologies and the system is not perfect, it cannot be denied that Japan has the ability to make most of its own weapons, including naval ships and air force fighters.

The direct product of the FS-X program is the F-2 fighter, which is known as the "Heisei Zero Battle", which is a medium-sized multi-role fighter developed on the basis of the American F-16C/D, mainly for anti-ship warfare, requiring the ability to mount 4 anti-ship missiles and reach a combat radius of more than 800 kilometers. Initially, Japan had the ambition to use Mitsubishi-designed JF-210 as a model to improve its aerospace manufacturing capabilities. But after all, Japan has been emasculated, and its ability to make independent decisions is relatively poor. And they originally planned to build their own houses, with the technology of European and American countries adding bricks and tiles, and finally reap their own profits and obtain more technology.

However, the Americans did not accept this and put pressure on Japan, and finally Japan abandoned the JF-210 program, which looked quite similar to the Gripen, and instead cooperated with General Dynamics (the F-16 later belonged to Loma) to produce F-2 fighters. And the Americans also received a 40% share of production in the contract, which can be described as a lot of money.

But the Japanese have never given up hope of making their own fighters, and the nature of this set of wild horses with reins is restless, but the Americans' ropes are too tight, making it difficult for Japan to find a breakthrough. Mitsubishi can design the JF-210, but in fact its design is still quite immature, whether it is from the wind tunnel modification start, or the final system integration, the Japanese lack experience and ability, even if they want to carry out this self-made fighter plan, they must have the help of the American godfather. However, the American godfather was mercenary, and it was impossible to give up the silver in vain, so he naturally kicked over the Japanese dream of making their own fighters and forced them to accept the F-2 that was changed from the F-16.

In the Native Plane, the situation has changed a little. Originally, the United States and Japan signed a memorandum of understanding in 1988 as the beginning of the joint development of the F-2 fighter. However, the Japanese had many crooked ideas and found a new way, which was not only to force the Americans to make concessions, but also to leave a little hope of making their own fighters.

Mitsubishi's JF-210 actually does not have the possibility of coming true, just like the F-3 Xinshen fighter in later generations, which is actually more likely to be used as a technical verification machine, and its own industrial capacity is limited, and it cannot be perfected into a real first-class fighter. However, Japan took advantage of the trick and lost to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the system assembly contract, Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru), which was originally a very well-known aviation manufacturing company with a certain aviation manufacturing capacity.

Fuji Heavy Industries is not willing to give up its business as an automobile manufacturer for a long time, so it hopes to make a difference. At this time, Qi Yiming installed a Red Alert spy into Fuji Heavy Industries as a senior manager, and through this line, Fuji Heavy Industries obtained a complete design of a medium multirole fighter from AVIC.

Of course, this design is not China's own J-10 or J-8V, and it is quite interesting to say that the source of this design is the Taiwan Air Force IDF fighter that is no longer possible. After Taiwan was recovered, all kinds of materials of Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Academy of Sciences were received, although most of these things seemed very backward to the country, but some things could still be cleaned up to cheat money.

After Qi Yiming took away the design of the IDF, he used the base's powerful calculation and improvement capabilities, plus the help of some Red Police aviation engineers, to finally modify the IDF, a congenitally disabled fighter, into a medium-sized multi-role fighter.

The designers enlarged the IDF a bit, and the captain was increased to 16. 6 meters, which has surpassed the F-16, and the other two ridiculous Honeywell engines are also designed to be mid-thrust like the WS-13 or F404. The wing has been enlarged and modified so that it can obtain a higher wing load to meet the operational needs of carrying 4 anti-ship missiles, and some other places have left a relatively large room for modification, the purpose is to leave it to the Japanese to DIY.

The air intake of this new fighter is similar to the combination of the F-18's Galette intake and Rafale's ternary axisymmetric intake, in fact, it could have been made into a complete Galatt air intake, that is, a swept double-bevel supersonic air intake, but Qi Yiming didn't want to give the Japanese this technology, so he directly changed the ternary axis symmetry to make it have a little swept characteristics, under the wing root of the side strip.

In addition, when this aircraft was designed, there were a bunch of front-mounted close-coupled canards, which would inevitably enhance the maneuverability of the fighter, but considering that this fighter might be the enemy in the future, Qi Yiming canceled this canard wing, so that its appearance was basically similar to that of another IDF fighter of the Taiwan Air Force.

Even if the design of this fighter was made casually by the designers of the base and the Red Alert, it is enough to show that the foundation is profound, showing the heritage of a great country in aviation design, and ordinary countries will never be able to get these things.

Fuji Heavy Industries spent a lot of money to purchase the design materials of this fighter from AVIC, and even Qi Yiming deliberately sent some Red Alert engineers to disguise themselves as foreigners and join Fuji Heavy Industries' team, so that Fuji Heavy Industries could obtain stronger design and system construction capabilities. Naturally, these people can withdraw when they want to withdraw, and they can take a good look at the Japanese.

Even if Japanese engineers can learn something from them, it is absolutely impossible to achieve qualitative improvement in a short period of time. By the time they had almost learned, China might have reduced Japan to a wasteland.

With this design drawing, Japan has obtained a treasure, and the government has made false promises with the Americans on the one hand, and on the other hand, it has promoted the self-production of this fighter called the "Hurricane-2" fighter. The Hurricane was an army fighter developed by Japan's Nakajima Aircraft Company during World War II, and is considered to be the best mass-produced fighter in Japan during World War II. Nakajima is part of Fuji Heavy Industries, and the use of this name reflects Fuji Heavy Industries' determination to revitalize its own aerospace manufacturing.

On the one hand, the FS-X program has been almost halted because Japan has not allocated funds for development, and on the other hand, Japan has used the design obtained from China to produce its own parts, and ordered from China if it cannot produce its own, and the most critical components are two WS-13 medium-thrust engines and some electronic equipment.

At the end of 1992, the prototype of the Hurricane II manufactured by Fuji Heavy Industries was successfully rolled off the assembly line and carried out the first flight test, and the stability, maneuverability, and maneuverability were very good, and there were no problems. After the news broke, the United States was furious and demanded an explanation from Japan. However, it is not surprising that the Japanese side continues to play dumbfounded.

At this time, the Americans could not be calm, if the FS-X plan was carried out smoothly, they naturally still had room for negotiation, but because of the weakness and misfortune of the Japanese, the Japanese fighter based on the F-16 is basically still a matter of eight words, but the first flight of the Hurricane II has been completed, and the matter of Japan's self-made fourth-generation fighter has been irrevised.

Of course, the Americans complained for a while about the Chinese's departure from selling technology and equipment, but complaining could not solve the problem, and several US defense contractors could only jump out and offer to provide better equipment than China on the basis of the two types of wind with Japan.

This is not nonsense, because in order to limit Japan, Qi Yiming gave some of the designs that the Chinese Air Force would not look at, and the WS-13 engine was even an early version, and the maximum afterburn thrust was only 72 kN. The vector engine used in the latest model of the J-8V manufactured by Shenfei, as well as the latest version of the Thunder, have a thrust of 100 kN.

In addition, such as the internal electronic equipment, it is the mainstream technology of the seventies and eighties, which is almost 20 years behind the technology used by the PLA itself. For example, the flight control system used, although not similar to the hydraulic flight control of the MiG-29, is just an analog fly-by-wire flight control used by the early F-16, and there is nothing advanced at all.

The U.S. company offered to help Japan improve the areas where these aspects were not advanced enough, and Japan would outsource the production of these parts to the U.S. side. Of course, Japan knew that it couldn't make the godfather too angry, and some of them got cheap and behaved, and finally subcontracted about 20% of the system to American companies, and they took the lion's share, which can be regarded as a great reduction in the production cost of the Rapid Wind II. The components subcontracted to the United States mainly include F404 engines, three-redundancy fly-by-wire flight controllers, and so on. In addition, about 8% of the components cannot be imported from China because they cannot be produced in-house, and the value is not particularly high.

Because of the high research and development funds defrauded by the Americans, the mature design purchased directly from China was reduced, and the cost of the Hurricane II was reduced by 50 percent compared with the original unit price of nearly 100 million US dollars. As a result, the Japanese Ministry of Defense has significantly increased the number of aircraft purchased by the other plane, reaching as many as 250 aircraft.