Good point, although I wouldn’t be surprised if clinton gave the blue prints for the aircraft to the ChiComs.
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What parts? The wheels??
Just blindly copying design details can still work out poorly without the background as to why certain design decisions were made.
This is news? Every high tech piece of equipment in the Chinese Military is stolen or purchased (Thanks Bill!) from the US.
I thought that our “accidental” bombing of the Chinese embassy was supposed to destroy the remains of the stealth fighter.
You can’t expect the Chinese not to take advantage of a windfall.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
But the DNC progressive democrats think China and Russia will be our friends in Obama’s call to global unity and China likes to poison our dog and baby food and put pee pee in our cokes and bottled water so how could this be?
It was old tech when it was shot down...
The ‘stupid’ part was the fact that the F-117’s flying in from Aviano (Italy) flew the same track mission after mission. Allegedly they were tipped off as to the takeoff time by spies sitting near the base. Once your enemy figures this out they can trick-up a missile radar to ‘look for’ the stealth aircraft’s signature. These things aren’t totally invisible to radar, only difficult to ‘see.’ Bammo! 1 dead stealth fighter.
OTOH, the News footage of the cash site showed a lot of scattered burning wreckage. How much of the wreck was useful is open to question.
Lot of dusting off cobwebs here, but wasn’t it shot down because one of our allies let it slip exactly when and where it was going to be? Somehow I keep thinking the French were involved in us losing that plane, but I can’t remember the whole story.
Man, some people can be so naive! "Official" numbers coming out communist countries have always been pure fiction!
No respectable new organization should publish these numbers except under the comics. Then again, this is the BBC...
We can’t blame the Chinese for our nation’s stupidity. Between Clinton giving them secrets, to Clinton allowing Chinese spies in our defense facilities, to Clinton allowing US companies to make a buck selling the Chinese secret technologies, to Clinton....say, have I mentioned Clinton is the most guilty party here?
Flash: BBC News Obtains Latest Parts List of PLAAF New J-20 Stealth Jet Fighter.
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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.
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”..
Yes, and the Mitsubishi Zero was copied from the Hughes H-1. Sure it was.
Everybody knew those Japanese could only copy Western engineering.