FX-Projekt
... im Moment steht der Entscheidungsprozeß für das FX-Projekt still. Für das kommend Finanzjahr (2011) wurden zum Thema nur Forschungsmittel beantragt (Entscheidungs-DeadLine 2016).
Größter Hinderungsgrund bei der Entscheidung(sfindung) seien im Moment die belasteten US-Japan-Beziehungen hinsichtlich der weiteren Nutzung der Futenma Air Station auf Okinawa. Hierfür wird von Beobachtern vorallem das Agieren der in Japan regierenden DPJ verantwortlich gemacht wird ...
"Govt FX project at standstill / Nation's air defense at stake in selection of next-generation fighter jet
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Government efforts to select the next generation of mainstay FX fighter jet for the Air Self-Defense Force, a decision likely to have a profound effect on the future of the nation's air defense, have come to a standstill.
The deadline to choose the successor to the ASDF's aging F-4 fighters is said to be 2016. But the Defense Ministry is likely to demand only research expenses for the FX fighter in its fiscal 2011 budget request to be submitted Tuesday. The ministry has unofficially decided to postpone the budget request to procure next-generation mainstay FX fighter jets.
The strain in the Japan-U.S. relationship caused by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's handling of the relocation of the U.S. Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture has hampered Japan's ability to select FX fighters, observers said. ..."
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T100829001979.htm
