F15, F22, and F2 Fighters
When I was running back home, I was passed by a vehicle with the license number "777" while others with "3003," "9990," etc. were coming and going at their own speed, which was not an unusual situation, though.
I was not flying high like an F15 or F22 jet fighter.
Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has 200 F15s, each of which was purchased from a certain U.S. company at a price roughly between US$ 80 million and 100 million, though the U.S. Air force could purchase an F15 at US$ 40 million.
It is said the Japanese Government pays twice more than the U.S. Government does for an F15.
It means, with the same budget, Japan could hold 400 F15s now.
In the case of an F22, it is said Japan will have to pay US$ 130 million.
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As the U.S. aerospace industry sells goods worth 180 billion dollars per year nowadays, Japan's defense budget for F15s account for one percent of the yearly sales if we assume that Japan's 200 F15s were purchased in ten fiscal years.
Japan also buys other items from various U.S. aerospace products makers.
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Japan has developed its own fighter jet plane which is called F2 and can fly at the maximum speed of Mach 2.0 and has a flying range of 4,000Km (2,500 miles).
However, as Japanese laws prohibit exporting weapons to other countries, the price of F2, including its development costs, is fairly high, US$ 100 million each.
The Japanese Government has decided to purchase only about 100 F2s from a certain Japanese maker.
During WWII, Imperial Japan had produced 10,000 "Zero" fighters.
Now peace-loving Japan is to be equipped with the national fighters in an amount of one-hundredth of the total production number of the legendary "Zero" fighters.
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Flying a jet fighter plane may be cool, but if you don't understand process of creation of modern wealth, for example, in a factory or at a construction site, you may lack something in your intellect that is very critical for anyone allowed to be engaged in an operation for destroying enemy's modern wealth in the form of a factory or a building.
Yes, life is once, but eternity can be in any moment in a life if God allows, as you should really feel high in the air above sonic boom.
"EVERYTHING AHEAD OF TIME"