{"id":107607,"date":"2024-08-14T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-fighter-jets-does-japan-produce-annually\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:00:11","slug":"how-many-fighter-jets-does-japan-produce-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=107607","title":{"rendered":"How Many Fighter Jets Does Japan Produce Annually?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    While <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/japan\/\">Japan<\/a> seems only to be actively producing limited quantities of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\">F-35As<\/a>, it boasts a developed <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/japanese-aviation\/\">military aviation sector<\/a>. Japan&#8217;s defense sector has long only received a small percentage of GDP in funding, as it is the world&#8217;s third-largest economy that is changing (and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-68662465\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >planning to double<\/a> defense spending by 2027). The emergence of great power competition with China has seen Japan start to invest more in its military (while the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-deploys-f-15exs-f-35s-to-japan-restarts-v-22-osprey-ops-in-yokota\/\">US is deploying more advanced F-35As, F-35Cs, and F-15EXs to Japan<\/a>).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is currently only producing a small number of F-35A fighter jets and has a record of producing US F-15s, F-16s, and F-4s under license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,628,567,9771,1474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","category-japan","category-production"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107608,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107607\/revisions\/107608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}