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Japan's government sometimes promote their project as an research/development for new generation product, I've never heared any of such projects established a new global standard, though:

- According to JGSDF their latest Type 10 MBT[1] is world's first 4th gen tank, in spite of that its spec except software feature (like C4I capability) is virtually equivalent to modern 3rd gen tanks - Back in 80s MITI had invested over 50 billion yen into a parallel Prolog machine, labeled as a "5th gen computer"[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_10

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer