"... someone was messing around on Google Earth and found an F-117 in the middle of China.”
Check out link at # 23 to see photo.
Posted on 01/24/2011 8:01:43 AM PST by Ancient Drive
Don't confuse "old" with "no longer valuable"
Kind'a like the US Constitution.....
Creation dittoes!!!
“I can’t find the thread, but I think sometime in the last 6 months, someone was messing around on Google Earth and found an F-117 in the middle of China.”
http://asian-defence.blogspot.com/2011/01/f-117-night-hawk-mockup-in-luoyang.html
Flash: BBC News Obtains Latest Parts List of PLAAF New J-20 Stealth Jet Fighter.
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reverse engineer the materials
That’s it. Thanks.
That and reverse engineering.
In 1946 Andrei Tupolev built Russia’s first very long-range heavy bomber.....an almost exact copy of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress that had landed in Vladivostok in 1945 after sustaining damage over Japan.
and when the Chinese got the composite skin of the stealth fighter in their labs they realized it was the same material that they used to make knock offs of Ovation acoustic guitars all these years.
Specifically, remember when another stealth aircraft (a B-2 stealth bomber) "accidentally" dropped five super-accurate JDAM bombs on the Chinese embassy?
When the stealth jet was hit and crashed Clinton SHOULD have been smart enough to order it destroyed by a massive incendiary bomb ASAP.
He was probably “preoccupied”..
Don’t forget Clinton’s Commerce Sec’yat the time was Ron Brown....who was subpoenaed to testify before congress over classified technology being sent to the Chicoms in the wake of the Loral kerfuffle, and as rumor had it was about to sing “Pagliacci”.
Of course Bubba sent Brown to the Balkans where his plane mysteriously crashed......and Ron Brown’s body was found yards from the wreckage with no apparent injury, except for the .45 cal.-sized hole in his head.
"... someone was messing around on Google Earth and found an F-117 in the middle of China.”
Check out link at # 23 to see photo.
Large portions of the craft were recovered, from the engine intakes to the exhaust to critical joints and things like the canopy.
IIRC, cell towers were used to look for the moving radio “void” in a computerized and decentralized method.
There you FReepers go again. Blaming me for everything.
IIRC, the Chinese have been looking into that method. There has a lot that has been written about the F-117 shootdown over Serbia. I'm inclined to believe that the Serbs (probably with some outside help) took a fairly standard SAM radar & tricked it up to look for very small targets. This will work if you are looking at a very small slice of the sky and you know with some accuracy when the target aircraft is likely to arrive.
The cell tower method would likely involve a lot of sophisticated software and a degree of network reliablilty that might not have been possible for the Serbs. I say "might".
We may never know but I read that it was pure luck.
And yes, the French and Greeks did leak lots and lots of NATO secrets. This shows the weakness of NATO, you need ‘consensus’ of 28 countries with divergent interests and goals. Can you imagine a US General leaking info to Saddam because “Bush lied about the war for oil” ?? Yet, in NATO it happens because each country has different alliances and goals. Even if Russia attacked them tomorrow a few countries would betray NATO for cheaper Russian gas or whatever.
Yes, and the Mitsubishi Zero was copied from the Hughes H-1. Sure it was.
Everybody knew those Japanese could only copy Western engineering.
What's the big deal? They have thousands of people here at our universities and companies stealing everything they can.
Some people might be shocked to know how much of an effort China makes to steal technology from us.
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