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 - The American XB-70 Valkyrie was ... power was building an own supersonic strategic bomber. This Soviet aircraft – the Sukhoi T-4 – is what will be looked ......

November 10, 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 6, 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).