General Electric (engine), Kawasaki, Honeywell, Raytheon, NEC, Hazeltine, and Kokusai Electric are among the other larger participants to varying degrees. Lockheed Martin supplies the aft fuselage, leading edge slats, stores management system, a large portion of wing boxes (as part of two-way technology transfer agreements), and other components. Kawasaki builds the midsection of the fuselage, as well as the doors to the main wheel and the engine, while forward fuselage and wings are built by Mitsubishi. Avionics are supplied by Lockheed Martin, and the digital fly-by-wire system has been jointly developed by Japan Aviation Electric and Honeywell (formerly Allied Signal). Contractors for communication systems and IFF interrogators include Raytheon, NEC, Hazeltine, and Kokusai Electric. Final assembly is done in Japan, by MHI at its Komaki-South facility in Nagoya.
The F-2 has three display screens, including a liquid crystal display from Yokogawa.
Some differences in the F-2 from the F-16A:
- a 25% larger wing area
- composite materials used to reduce overall weight and radar signature
- longer and wider nose to accommodate a phased-array radar
- larger tailplane
- larger air intake
- three-piece cockpit canopy
- capabilities for four ASM-1 or ASM-2 anti-ship missiles, four AAMs, and additional fuel tanks
Also, the F-2 is equipped with a drogue parachute, like the version of the F-16 used by Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Turkey, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Venezuela.
General characteristics
- Crew: 1 (or 2 for the F-2B)
- Length: 15.52 m (50 ft 11 in)
- Wingspan: 11.13 m (36 ft 6 in)
- Height: 4.69 m (15 ft 5 in)
- Wing area: 34.84 m² (375 ft²)
- Empty weight: 9,527 kg (21,000 lb)
- Loaded weight: 15,000 kg (33,000 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 22,100 kg (48,700 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × General Electric F110-GE-129 turbofan
- Dry thrust: 76 kN (17,000 lbf)
- Thrust with afterburner: 120-125 kN (29,500 lbf)
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 2.0
- Range: 834 km on anti-ship mission (520 miles)
- Service ceiling: 18,000 m (59,000 ft)
- Wing loading: 430 kg/m² at weight of 15,000 kg (88 lb/ft²)
- Thrust/weight: 0.89
Armament
- 20 mm JM61A1 cannon, plus maximum weapon load of 8,085 kg:
- AAMs: AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-7 Sparrow, Mitsubishi AAM-3, Mitsubishi AAM-4 (from FY2010)
- air-to-ground weapons include: ASM-1 and ASM-2 anti-ship missiles, various free-fall bombs with GCS-1 IIR seeker heads, JDAM
- others: J/AAQ-2 FLIR
Avionics
- Mitsubishi Active Electronically Scanned Array radar system including J/APG-1
