​Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is proposing creation of a Japanese version of Airbus as an answer to what it calls a crisis in upper levels of the country’s civil aerostructure sector. This reorganization should take place as soon as possible, the company says. MHI, a builder of airframe major assemblies for Boeing and, formerly, complete fighters for the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, also urges the government to launch an indigenous combat-aircraft program in part to support ...
