Posted on 07/29/2025 9:31:14 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
For decades, China’s advanced fighter jets, including the J-20 stealth fighter, were held back by a critical dependency on Russian-made engines. China has systematically overcome this weakness, evolving from copying Russia’s AL-31F engine to reverse-engineering Western commercial cores and finally developing its own powerful, indigenous designs like the WS-10 and WS-15.
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When I worked in China Fall ‘76 to Spring ‘77, I noticed dead-ringer copies of Southbend metal lathes in their shops. I also saw dead-ringer copies of the old Gerber baby food glass jars with a Chinese baby on the label. It was then I realized how they steal IP and copy designs.
They say that the Baby Food jars keep food good for longer than the US jars. That’s because of the lead lined lids seal better.
bkmk
Here comes the MIC mouthpiece again.
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