The KBT Mitsubishi F-1

Flyboy208

Flyboy208

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I love this JASDF Japanese Jet for FS9, and have all the appropriate core files and updates, wondering if there are any repaints out there for it, as well as better afterburner FX ...

Also wanting a download link to the KBT Kawasaki T-4 trainer, does not download from the main KBT website ...

Mike :salute:
 
After the latest MAIW release, of course we are loading up JASDF stuff!

I only have the Tsuiki textures for the F-1.
Maybe there was a special livery, but never seen a repaint.

I see I have a T-4 from the KBT site, PM if all else fails.
 
Mike, I have the T-4 if you need it - after a similar fruitless search I was helped out by kind people here, so happy to help similarly.
 
"Tsuiki AB Experimental scheme"

Great find, Pete, never come across one before now.
You have to change the "sim=' entry otherwise it doesn't show up

F-1.jpg


Hard to tell which planes this one is a copy of, certainly some Jaguar in there...
 
Wing_Z said:
Hard to tell which planes this one is a copy of, certainly some Jaguar in there...
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How can you say such a thing! :kilroy:

The Japanese were looking at licence producing the Jaguar, but decided to produce their own design - the fact that it uses the same engines as the Jaguar, is virtually identical in outline, size and weight is purely coincidental; as Tupolev claimed with the 144, if you are looking at the same role then is it any surprise you come up with a similar solution? :icon_lol:
 
The F-1 is indeed a great plane to fly in FS9. If I remember correctly, its flight model was also very interesting, with quite a realistic behavior in stalls.
Also, didn't Piglet make a F-1 as well ?
He made one for FSX (together with the T-2), but it seems to me that there was an FS9 model as well...
 
AndyG43 said:
... if you are looking at the same role then is it any surprise you come up with a similar solution?
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They really are very similar, and you have to question the economics of scratch-designing a virtual clone.
Same argument for the F-2 I suppose, perhaps it was meant as an industry-enabling exercise.
F1vsJaguar.gif

The tail end does remind me of something else though...F-4 Phantom perhaps?
 
Mitsubishi F-1 was developed from Mitsubishi T-1, which was a trainer for larger jets (like F-4, etc.). SEPECAT asked for high royalty payments, so instead it was decided to develop an aircraft with very similar performance, which resulting from this, it looked a lot like Jaguar. It was developed into a single-seat fighter F-1 afterwards.

Mitsubishi F-2 is deliberately looking like an F-16, it's because it was developed from it, with the aid from Lockheed-Martin. Specifically, developed from "Block 40" of F-16. However F-2 is larger than F-16, and it is more comparable to F-18 and MiG-29 in role and performance.

F-2 was born from Lockheed's plan to create enlarged F-16 for a multirole fighter against MiG-29, but this was cancelled when JSF project was born. The design was passed to Mitsubishi, for this new fighter project.
 
I can't find too much about the T-1, unusually Google just turns up an image or 2.

As to the reason for the home-grown fighter, the money simply doesn't stack up.
An F-2 costs 4 times as much as a Block 50 F-16...
So the technology transfer must have seemed like a good deal at the time.

I rather like the F-2, and wish Lockheed could have built the Agile Falcon on which it is based.
 
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