{"id":48571,"date":"2022-09-14T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48571"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:11:15","slug":"the-impressive-formation-of-japanese-f-35-fighters-at-the-misawa-airshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/14\/the-impressive-formation-of-japanese-f-35-fighters-at-the-misawa-airshow\/","title":{"rendered":"The impressive formation of Japanese F-35 fighters at the Misawa Airshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Misawa Air Base, on the island of Honshu, hosted the largest annual air show in Japan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/08\/south-korea-shows-the-runway-tests-of-its-alternative-to-the-f-35-kai-kf-21-boramae\/\">South Korea shows the runway tests of its alternative to the F-35: KAI KF-21 Boramae<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/29\/an-impressive-massive-takeoff-of-apache-black-hawk-and-chinook-helicopters\/\">An impressive massive takeoff of Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest attractions at the Misawa Airshow was the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. <strong>Japan plans to be the second largest operator of this fifth-generation fighter, with an order for 147 aircraft<\/strong> (105 F-35As and 42 F-35Bs with STOVL capability, which could be operated from Japanese aircraft carriers). <strong>As a sign of that air power, 12 F-35s flew in formation over the base<\/strong>, as you can see in this video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/J-sky-filmNet\/featured\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J-Sky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[4K] \u4e16\u754c\u521d\uff1f F-35A 12\u6a5f\u306b\u3088\u308b\u5927\u7de8\u968a\u822a\u904e\u98db\u884c - \u4e09\u6ca2\u57fa\u5730\u822a\u7a7a\u796d 2022 \/ JASDF Misawa Air Base Air Show\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JuwQjGakLUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Japan Air Self-Defense Force is replacing its aging F-4EJ Phantom IIs with F-35s.<\/strong> The new stealth aircraft will join an already powerful air force equipped with <strong>200 McDonnell Douglas fighters. F-15 Eagle<\/strong> (155 single-seat F-15J and 45 two-seat F-15DJ) <strong>and 87 Mitsubishi F-2<\/strong> (a local derivative of the F-16, of which Japan has 62 F- 2A single-seat and 25 F-2B two-seat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Misawa Air Base, on the island of Honshu, hosted the largest annual air show in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11546],"tags":[12880,17481,7072,17482],"class_list":["post-48571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-japan","tag-japan-air-self-defense-force","tag-lockheed-martin-f-35-lightning-ii","tag-misawa-air-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}