[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Flavius]

that cant be the plane

that has to have a cross section of a mountain on a radar screen

[neodad]

Looks like an F/A-18 to me.

[Jet Jaguar]

I think the word “stealth” is lost in the translation to Chinese.

The engine inlets, gear doors, and external stores are not at all stealthy.

[null and void]

It doesn’t look particularly stealthy.

Ability to track and engage multiple targets is good, I supose.

[familyop]

...thanks to our exchange student programs. Teach them how to do engineering, and they’ll rule the world with an iron PLA fist.

[Southack]

"Jian-11B's radar can track 20 targets simultaneously..."

Good thing the U.S. would never install a radar detector!

< /SARCASM >

[ought-six]

Well, the aircraft shown in the picture does not look like it has any stealth technology. But, maybe the picure shown is not the aircraft that is the subject of the article.

[SampleMan]

3 square meters? Its still a barn door.

[mamelukesabre]

About the only stealthy thing possible I can think of looking at that pic is that it might have radar absorbing paint.

Otherwise it’s just an ordinary fighter jet.

[biggerten]

Probably uses some of that lead paint I’ve been hearing so much about.

[VaBthang4]

LOL

[blam]

Your search - Jian-11b jet fighter - did not match any documents.

[RC2]

One thing to remember here. When we developed the stealth aircraft, we then immediately developed a plan to detect the stealth aircraft and naval ships. When a new weapon is developed, immediately following that is a design that counters that new weapon. The Chinese are way behind the times. When they develop something new, we have already developed a method to detect and destroy that weapon. That is the American drive to protect ourselves. They do things under orders.

[chilepepper]

i think its definitely a translation problem - the chinese probably meant this plane has "stealeth" features, as the plane's origin is from a Communist General's orders to his underlings...

"Hsu, goeth forth and thou must stealeth the plans for the American running dog F18 fighter which we will redesign using the golden mean ratio of .61 and build under the glorious name Jian 11b"

[Dahoser]

According to Chinese media on Sept. 13, it took 10 years to develop Jian-11B, based on Russia-made 'Sukhoi-27' fighter, which China assembles in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, since 1996.

Somebody help me with this math problem:

  The year 2008 minus 10 years equals whose Presidency?

[Ruddles]

MSG coating radar-absorptive for a couple of hours then plane needs to be repainted.

[Eye of Unk]

This is the latest in US stealth fighter technology.

[puppypusher]

Even if this aircraft is not all that stealthy,the U.S. needs to start developing the technology to detect stealth aircraft and warships.

Stealth technology is like everything else.Sooner or later everyone will have it in some form,just like the atomic bomb.

[llevrok]

I found the correct picture of the Chinese stealth fighter. You can hardly see it

[Master of Orion]

Chinese Fighter

[Zeppo]

According to Chinese media on Sept. 13, it took 10 years to develop Jian-11B

It takes a long time to smuggle engineering drawings all the way to China, huh... One disk drive at a time, no doubt...

[HamiltonJay]

The culmination of the 1996 Clinton Gore campaign cash for military secrets....

Gotta love it....

[Bender2]

Gadzooks! That bizzy bottom of that SU-27 knockoff... even shows up on my gaydar!

If that is the best they can come up with for stealth... , to coin a phrase, "They haven't a chinaman's chance!"

You have such a way... with words, my dear Bender!

[printhead]

Ready in 2009? yeah, right after the olympic closing ceremonies.

[Doc91678]

Looks strangely similar to the F-16, F-18 series of fighters. But there again, the plans for those fighters was most likely given to the Chinese by Clinton. Ten years Hmmm? that’s just about right.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

The F-22 will own these Wang Wei piloted chicom birds just as it does the F-16.

[Wiz]

I don’t think this will be a mass production model, and would be something like an advanced technology demonstrator like the Mig 1.42/Mig 1.44. This J-11 doesn’t seem to have the weapon bay as F-22 which the weapons are kept internal. Stealthiness is decreased when weapons are attached externally. China has plans developing other stealth fighters in the designation J-12 and J-14.

[Erik Latranyi]

YOU ALL MISSED THIS!!!!!!

In 1999, an F-117 Stealth Fighter (really a bomber) was shot down over Serba in March.

In May, 1999, NATO forces bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.....by accident.

OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!