Kawasaki T-4

September 28, 2025 - The Kawasaki T-4 is a Japanese subsonic intermediate jet trainer aircraft developed and manufactured by the commercial conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Its sole operator is the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), in part due to historic restrictions on the exporting of military hardware.

February 3, 2025 - The Sukhoi design, with its high cruise speed of 3,200 km/h (2,000 mph) was favored over the designs submitted by Yakovlev and Tupolev and after a preliminary design review in June 1964, the building of a prototype was authorized. Development of the T-4 required massive research efforts to ...

The T-4 Intermediate Trainer was developed, thanks to the dedication of the Japanese aerospace industry , as the successor to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s T-33 Jet Trainer.

April 30, 2020 - The aircraft, serial 56-5601, was called the XT-4 and was the outcome of a four-year development program in which Kawasaki was chosen to design the replacement aircraft for the T-33, Fuji T-1 in one type, including some of the syllabus done ...

August 29, 2014 - As mentioned its name was Sukhoi T-4, however a lot of names for it has been used, such as Aircraft 100, Project 100 and Sotka. After Sukhoi had won the aircraft contest held by the Soviet leaders because of the high speed (3200 km/h) of their ...

November 8, 2024 - Should paint the livery as a Canadian Goose. ... It was in an anime called Stratos 4 among other rare planes like the BAC TSR,i suggest checking it out.

October 10, 2025 - The Sukhoi T-4 Sotka was one of the Soviet Union’s most ambitious aeronautical programs. Designed in the 1960s to rival the American SR-71, this strategic bomber was intended to reach Mach 3 (approximately 3,200 km/h) and an altitude of 24,000 ...

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July 17, 2024 - The T-4 training jet, also known as “Dolphin” due to its slightly round appearance, was developed primarily by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in the late 1980s. For a made-in-Japan military equipment, the jet plane managed to keep development ...

May 14, 2025 - It disappeared from radar approximately 10 km northeast of Komaki Air Base, near Lake Iruka. The crashed aircraft was a Kawasaki T-4 training aircraft with tail number 96-5625 and serial number 1025 belonging to the 305th Tactical Fighter Squadron.

May 15, 2025 - Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.

December 5, 2020 - A subreddit spawned from /r/weirdwheels with the same intent, only with planes! This sub is for documenting all those strange planes out there from prototype to production.

September 26, 2024 - poll Specifications Length - 13 Meters Wingspan - 9.94 Meters Height - 4.6 Meters Wing Area - 21 Square Meters Empty Weight - 3,840 kg Takeoff Weight, Clean - 5,730 kg Maximum Takeoff Weight - 7,500 kg Maximum Level Speed - Mach 0.9 Range at Mach .75 with internal fuel - 1,297 km Armament - 1 twin FN 60.30 gunpod, 2 external drop tanks Information Developed to replace Japan’'s aging T-1 and T-33 fleets, as well as take on some of the duties of the T-2, the T-4 was...

February 3, 2004 - Total Produced. Kawasaki produced 212 T-4s through

TYPE: Advanced jet trainer. PROGRAMME: Kawasaki named prime contractor 4 September 1981 by Japan Defence Agency; T-4 based on Kawasaki KA-851 design, by engineering team led by Kohki Isozaki; basic design studies completed October 1982; funding approved in FY83 and FY84 for four flying prototypes; ...

japan Secondary training aircraft used by the Air Self-Defense Force , T-3/T-7 propellers[1] Subsonic developed to train student pilots who have completed the elementary training course used in full-scale secondary flight courses it is a jet ...

April 5, 2017 - The prototype XT-4 took its maiden flight on July 29, 1985. The Kawasaki T-4 is a secondary jet trainer aircraft of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF), developed to replace the Lockheed T-33 and Fuji T-1 trainers.

The Kawasaki T-4 is a twin-turbofan-powered, tandem-seat intermediate/advanced military training aircraft operated solely by the Japan Air Self Defense Force. Aside from its primary training missions, the aircraft has been utilized by the Japan ...

The Kawasaki T-4 is a twin-engined two-seat jet trainer aircraft produced by the Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki Heavy Industries, operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF).