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It's a "fighter"? Are we imagining drones dogfighting? What's it's main target?

probably brown people in west asia

Other drones

Got to replace the head gaskets every 10 flights.

Wildberries.

Defense budgets.

A lot of companies in Japan have a heavy industries branch or similar. Yamaha has all kinds of verticals as they're happy to sell you a piano or a motorcycle (or both!)

CCAs or collaborative combat aircraft are the new hotness in military aviation. Basically smaller unmanned fighter jets that work alongside a traditional manned fighter. The idea is that you can have maybe 4 or 5 fighter jets worth of capability but only one of them has a human pilot on board. So the manned fighter can hang back and tell a farther forward one to fire a missile. Is it a wunderwaffen? Is it a boondoggle? Idk man

Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification

Contrails lookin’ like someone’s hitting all the vapes

Alive things

The A3-001 is from Saab, not Subaru.

https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-showcases-full-scale-uncrewed-aircraft-concept

And if you push it too hard it will shoot a piston out the side

Now I'll know if the plane overhead is piloted by a lesbian! Nice!

Which one get's to carry the spool of fibre optic?

Hitachi is the best example

Mitsubishi and it's offshoots has made everything at one point or another. Paper, drugs, TVs, cars, tanks, planes, submarines...

... one of the best fighter planes of World War II...

This made me giggle.

Lesbian pilots of the world unite - who's with me!? 🤪

That was the old Roos
The modern ones spin bearings from no oil due to oil pickups blocked with RTV

The term for it is 'conglomerate'

Subaru used to be a part of Fuji Heavy Industries, who actually started out making aircraft. They've since been renamed to simply "Subaru Corporation", apparently.

Some of the constraints imposed on fighter jets is life support and G-force limitations for the pilot. Removing the pilot and allowing an on-board computer handle things in the moment (e.g. dogfights) gives an unmanned jet the upper hand.

It's obviously a step toward completely automated war machines, but that's the justification for the "unmanned fighter jet"

It's not so much diversification, but the fact that many of them were zaibatsu, the only ones able to do anything other than farming. They just had a huuuuge head start.

nah, you're right, it's clearly delivering medical supplies.

https://youtu.be/4tYhl-8g8TU

Maybe Amazon next?

Wooo boy does this need to be top comment.

Good catch.

Grok translation everyone, as reliable as Elon Musk's stock valuations.

EDIT:

https://www.jwing.net/news/112102

Pretty sure this is the actual source.

Current article title:

サーブ、次世代無人戦闘機コンセプト「A3-001」を公開

So uh, サーブ is a transliteration of Saab. (Sa-- Bu), basically.

But, the original headline, in the image, has... kanji...

[kou - shiki], I think? Which would... contextually be... 'official announcement', basically?

Ah, the header in the image is the description of jwing, the news outlet, not the article title.

Well, I'd thought it might be possible that the actual company name in the headline could have been erroneous, initially, and then updated, but now I realize we can't see it, so, not sure.

Oh well, learned some kanji, wheeee!

the advantage of drones is their low price, not the fact fhat they are unmanned