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To: Flavius

Pretty bird.


3 posted on 03/21/2006 2:04:29 AM PST by Cornpone (Remember 11 Sept 2001 -- This generation's Pearl Harbor, its Alamo, its battleship Maine.)
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To: Cornpone
Sources within China's confirmed that the SAC is looking at a twin-engine, single-seat, single vertical tale fin design, but other design proposals has yet been ruled out

The text doesn't seem to match the picture (although there is the "has yet been ruled out" caveat).

Single vertical tail aircraft are decidedly non-stealthy, as the vertical stab(s) need to be canted (as with the F-117, F-22, F-35 and even the cancelled RAH-66) in order to properly reflect radar. A single vertical tail reflects radar about as well as a barn door.
20 posted on 03/21/2006 4:49:27 AM PST by tanknetter
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