Mitsubishi ATD-X to fly this year

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Advanced Technology Demonstrator-X (ATD-X) is expected to fly this year, Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Upper House.

The first flight has been delayed but it will still occur this year.

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