{"id":6191,"date":"2019-11-02T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2021-02-11T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:20:57","slug":"us-approves-4-5-billion-upgrade-of-japan-f-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-approves-4-5-billion-upgrade-of-japan-f-15s\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves $4.5 billion upgrade of Japan F-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US approves a request by Japan for a $4.5 billion upgrade of its F-15J Eagle fleet of fighter planes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department has approved Japan\u2019s request for an upgrade package for\u00a098 of its F-15 Eagle interceptors.<\/p>\n<p>United State in late October 2019\u00a0okayed the Japanese government to spend up to $4.5 billion to upgrade 98 Boeing F-15J fighters to a new and greatly-improved standard it calls the \u201cJapanese Super Interceptor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proposed sale will provide Japan a critical air defense capability to assist in defending the Japanese homeland and U.S. personnel stationed there,\u201d <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/major-arms-sales\/japan-f-15j-modernization\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a80000;\">DSCA<\/span> said<\/a><\/span>. \u201cModernized F-15J assets will better enable Japan to respond to airborne threats and defend its airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prime contractor for the foreign military sales will be Boeing\u00a0while\u00a0Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will be the direct commercial sales portion with Boeing being a sub-contractor in supporting the integration.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades include 103 APG-82(v)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radars, 116 Advanced Display Core Processor II (ADCP II) Mission System Computers and 101 ALQ-239 Digital Electronic Warfare Systems, the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US approves a request by Japan for a $4.5 billion upgrade of its F-15J Eagle fleet of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1,125],"tags":[227,256,137,6,347,46,7],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-united-states","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-asia","tag-defense","tag-ew","tag-japan","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/F-15.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1BR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}