During an earnings briefing on May 9, Hiroshi Ide, President of IHI Corporation, told reporters that approximately 200 Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engines mounted on the Mitsubishi F-15J fighter will have to be disposed of when they are retired.
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Japan has 200 F-15s in operation and half of these were not delivered with the Multi-Stage Improvement Program (MSIP) that allows these fighters to have wiring support to fire newer air-to-air missiles. Therefore, these jets will be decommissioned from service and replaced by the F-35.
Ide says his company has held talks with the ruling party on how to get rid of those fighter jets’ engines. One way is to export these engines to another country.
However, Japan’s Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology prohibits the transfer of fighter jet engines to another nation. Discussions are underway to resolve the deadlock.
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One of way of facilitating the sale of 200 F-100 engines is to involve the US State Department who will inform users of F-15 Eagles that Japan has available the above mentioned engines. Expressions of interest from sources flying the Eagle would be passed to Japan where negotiations will take place of the proposed sales. The US State Department will not approve/reject the sales but convey documents between Japan and the source wanting to buy the engines.
We might have to do it this way in order to assuage ethical qualms the Japanese Government might have before they sell the engines to the country seeking to buy them.
USAF might want to buy them for Ff-15s still in operations or the Japanese might sent them to be scrapped by USAF for them.
One of way of facilitating the sale of 200 F-100 engines is to involve the US State Department who will inform users of F-15 Eagles that Japan has available the above mentioned engines. Expressions of interest from sources flying the Eagle would be passed to Japan where negotiations will take place of the proposed sales. The US State Department will not approve/reject the sales but convey documents between Japan and the source wanting to buy the engines.
We might have to do it this way in order to assuage ethical qualms the Japanese Government might have before they sell the engines to the country seeking to buy them.
USAF might want to buy them for F-15s still in operations or the Japanese might sent them to be scrapped by USAF for them.