Posted on 06/24/2010 2:32:24 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Russia's government said last week that China's prototype J-15 jet fighter is a pirated copy of the Sukhoi Su-33 fighter bomber, highlighting China's continued reverse-engineering and technology acquisition piracy.
Russia’s Novyy Region news agency reported June 4 that Chinese engineers have assembled the first prototype of the J-15, an advanced warplane considerd a “fourth-generation deck-based fighter.”
“The copy was developed on the basis of one of the first Sukhoy prototypes — the Soviet-era T10K experimental aircraft, which China received from Ukraine in 2005,” the report said. “Earlier, Beijing tried to purchase two Su-33 aircraft from the Russian Federation, but Moscow refused to sell the fighters, fearing a leakage of technologies.”
The J-15 prototype has folding wings and is the jet that many believe will be deployed on China’s new aircraft carrier, which is in development.
China also copies other Russian fighters, mass producing the J-10, J-11, and FC-1 fighters, based on copies of Russia's Su-27, Su-30 and MiG-29.
China’s Su-33 knockoff is a single-seated fighter with a short take-off and arrested landing capability and a defenses.
foldable wing and horizontal tail unit. The aircraft is designed for anti-ship warfare with high-tech anti-ship
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man.. China must be like patent-free land.
You have to include Russia
Geez... can’t the Russians take China to the WTO on this? /s
(((PING)))
At a certain national tool supply outlet store, you can buy small Chinese gasoline engines that are such close copies of Hondas that the parts are interchangeable.
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