Japan has suffered from the inability to produce a high-thrust engine for fighter aircraft both before and after the WWII.
However, in 2018, a prototype engine for future fighter planes was finally completed.
This video explains the details of the engine's structure.
【Chapter】
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Gas Turbine
02:00 Jet Engine
02:58 Development Objectives of the XF9-1
04:09 Structure of XF9-1 and Explanation of Turbofan Engine
05:55 Structure of XF9-1 (Detail)
06:21 Fan and Compressor
06:48 Combustor
08:55 High Pressure Turbine
13:27 Low Pressure Turbine
13:53 Afterburner
14:00 Thrust vector nozzle
14:30 Core engine
15:13 Performance verification test
16:05 Features and performance of XF9-1
18:04 Adaptive Engine
19:30 Concerns (personal opinion)
20:52 Start of the design of the engine for the next fighter jet
22:32 The end
【Reference】
XF9-1, the world's most advanced domestically produced fighter engine, has finally been completed - Interview with the developer of Japan's Military Technology (Part 1)
https://blogos.com/article/369997/
2. "5.4.3.2.1...Acceleration! The miracle happened on the day of the maximum thrust test - Interview with the developer of the XF9-1, Japan's first fighter jet engine (Part 2)
https://blogos.com/article/370429/
3. "Overview of the XF9-1 Engine" IHI Technical Review Vol.60 No.2 ( 2020 )
https://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/technology/review_library/review/2020/_cms_conf01/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2020/06/30/07_ronbun1.pdf
4. Research on the XF9 fighter engine
https://www.mod.go.jp/atla/research/ats2020/slide01_xf9.html
5. Aircraft Equipment Laboratory
https://www.mod.go.jp/atla/kousouken.html
6. "Prototype of Next-generation engine XF9-1" Youtube video by the ATLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjoRpEixF1Q&t=86s
6. blog of military this and that - Next fighter plane and engine (2)
http://hitomaru10.livedoor.blog/archives/18290824.html
7. Taku Tamaru, "Research and Development of Gas Turbine and Jet Engine Combustor at National Aerospace Laboratory," National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan, TM-676, January 1995.
https://jaxa.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=41139&item_no=1&attribute_id=31&file_no=1
8. How Next-Generation Engines Will Change the U.S. Air Force [The Latest on U.S. Air Force Engines 3/3].
https://www.military-channel.jp/news/usa-engine_03
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