Talks have been held with countries including Japan about offloading large numbers of Eurofighter Typhoons that the Ministry of Defence has ordered but can no longer afford ...full story at Financial Times
from Financial Times on Wed, Aug 20 2008
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| 13 Jul 07 |
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YouTube video typhoon 4, 2007
It's one of most great typhoons for some years those hit on okinawa.
This is from my apartment. Wind comes from east to west. This hallway arranged in that direction.
Can't go ahead! Can't go ahead!! |
| 14 Oct 07 |
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A typhoon by any other name » Japan Times Jun Hongo's Sept. 18 article, "Typhoons more predictable but still deadly," states that Japan and 13 other Asian countries use a list with some 140 names to name typhoons. I found one mistake: The... Read more . . . |
| 27 Oct 08 |
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National › No. of typhoon landfalls on Japan mainland may be zero this year » Japan Today The number of typhoons that make landfall on any of Japan's four main islands could be zero this year due to fewer-than-usual spawnings of typhoons… |
| 18 Sep 08 |
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Typhoon » Kyklops In a slow year for these things, the year's first typhoon is blowing through Miyazaki. I don't know if it's because the typhoons here are a lot less intense than the hurricanes that blow through the American cities some friends of mine live in, or if... |
| 22 Apr 07 |
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Japan eyes buying U.S. F-22A, F-15FX fighters » Japan Times The Defense Ministry is considering buying a combination of F-22A stealth fighters and F-15FX fighters from the United States in two stages starting in fiscal 2009 to replace the aging F-4EJ, which... Read more . . . |
| 06 Sep 07 |
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Typhoon Fitow » Mottekaero Right now we have a large Typhoon bearing down on Japan, it's expected to hit within the next 2-3 hours.It should be fun, but I'm not looking forward to the possibility of the electricity going out.It's expected to dump about as much water in one day as... |