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China Practices Intercepting U.S. Stealth Fighters
The Chosun Illbo ^ | 10/15/2010 | The Chosun Illbo

Posted on 10/16/2010 9:23:35 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

The Chinese People's Liberation Army recently staged an intercept exercise targeting the U.S.' latest stealth fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, Hong Kong's Apple Daily reported Thursday.

Japanese media on Oct. 3 reported that the Japanese and U.S. militaries will carry out a joint exercise to practice recapturing the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyutai Islands in November, in case the Chinese capture them in a surprise attack. It said the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington and F-22 Raptors will take part in the exercise.

On Oct. 8, five days after the report, a Chinese Air Force brigade in the Chengdu military district practiced firing a Hong Qi No. 9 missile, China's newest ground-to-air missile, to hit a target assumed to be an F-22, the Apple Daily said.

The Science and Technology Daily, published in Beijing, wrote a story about the drill. "Right after the radar sent the information on the location of the stealth fighter to the missile launch team, the Hong Qi No. 9 missile flew into the clouds and an explosion was heard only 40 seconds later. There was loud applause for the success of the exercise," it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.chosun.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; china; f22; hq9; navair; pla; raptor; stealth; stealthfighter
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1 posted on 10/16/2010 9:23:38 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

Can you imagine fighting the Chinese with all these “Gays” trying to “love”each other (or any one) in a fox hole and women screaming in the battlefield or on board ships in combat? We need to “man up” and quick.


2 posted on 10/16/2010 9:29:26 PM PDT by Benchim
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To: Benchim
Life and death overcome most other internal drives imo.
3 posted on 10/16/2010 9:32:54 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ping.


4 posted on 10/16/2010 9:33:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

How are they practicing intercepting something they don’t know when it is coming and where it is coming from? Do they just hop in their aircraft and start flying to every tiny blip the radar operator sees?


5 posted on 10/16/2010 9:34:48 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Well, hitting a drone with none of the F-22’s characteristics is quite different from engaging a real F-22 with a real pilot.


6 posted on 10/16/2010 9:37:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Maybe they are developing special radar or heat signature


7 posted on 10/16/2010 9:37:53 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: Benchim

I think their military’s sensitivity training consists of telling the troops to try not to step on their own wounded when advancing.


8 posted on 10/16/2010 9:38:07 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Watch the trial of that Wahhabi Moslem,”Major” Hussein !! They will close it to the public and you won’t hear his ties to Islam and the terrorists at the Mosques he went to and how he screamed “Alla Ackbar” as he murdered our brothers and sisters in fulfillment of his “religion”


9 posted on 10/16/2010 9:56:35 PM PDT by Benchim
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

China would do well to remember who helped when they were attacked by the Rising Sun, their evil little neighbor


10 posted on 10/16/2010 10:02:53 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Japanese media on Oct. 3 reported that the Japanese and U.S. militaries will carry out a joint exercise to practice recapturing the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyutai Islands

Why should we care?

11 posted on 10/16/2010 10:18:09 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

It is nice to know that the Chinese got some use out of all that technology Bill Clinton handed to them.


12 posted on 10/16/2010 10:30:40 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Cellular networks...China has been developing lots and lots of cell towers and the latency as objects pass through the fields are alerts to them.

Wish I could cite a link; read it here originally.

13 posted on 10/16/2010 11:14:08 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Guilty of being White.)
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To: magslinger

ping


14 posted on 10/17/2010 12:28:50 AM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; investigateworld; lowbuck; ...
Click on pic for past Navair pings.

Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

15 posted on 10/17/2010 3:49:18 AM PDT by magslinger ('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
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To: magslinger
SONOBUOY PING!

OK, let's try this after a couple of sips of coffee.

Click on pic for past Navair pings.

Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

16 posted on 10/17/2010 3:54:19 AM PDT by magslinger ('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

Here’s how to defeat us, guys. We’ll show you how to defeat our $____million
fighter plane. Now. aren’t we nice?


17 posted on 10/17/2010 4:54:15 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: Last Dakotan
Why should we care?

Look at a map.

Look for "Senyaku Is." and then "Formosa"/"Taiwan", and then "Okinawa" and "Naha".

Lots of Americans in Naha.

18 posted on 10/17/2010 4:56:53 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: yldstrk; TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; af_vet_rr; Allegra; wardaddy; stevie_d_64
China would do well to remember .....

.....how the Iraqi Air Force and Republican Guards disappeared.

This is about the Chinese younger generation spoiling to pick a fight with us. They think they can handle us. They can't. But they've started pushing, and are telling us to clear out of WESTPAC ..... including Japanese and Philippine waters. Going by that recent Chicom "official" party newsrag we saw passed around on FR.

They've already made their decision, it sounds like.

19 posted on 10/17/2010 5:09:18 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

The Chicoms have nothing of the sort until our Gov’t gives it to them.


20 posted on 10/17/2010 6:03:18 AM PDT by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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