Posted on 11/01/2016 1:08:41 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
Clone Wars
ALL stolen technology. The Chinese steal then copy everything.
Is China by these military improvements planning on a war?
Something else we should thank the Clintons for?
Fairly decent copies of our stuff. We have given them the technology to build such things by sending all our manufacturing to them. It’s going to bite us in the butt and our children will suffer for it.
Long range interceptor/strike aircraft. Ideal for being an AWACS killer.
Chinese knockoff of the US C-17. Isn't it nice how Boeing gave China the ability to build comparable aircraft. This is the capitalists selling the rope.
Sell them stuff but NOT composite designs and materials, so while their aircraft may look like ours, they are ages behind.
IF it lives long enough to get within shooting range. . .
Hey, look at that! The Chinese are imitating twenty-year old USAF tech!
We better be careful or they’re going to copy the 1997 Ford Ranger!
You are ABSOLUTELY wrong!
The Clintons did not allow this technology to be stolen.
They sold it.
Perhaps of interest, gents. The Chinese certainly have been keeping busy.
sorry, I was off a bit! LOL
Underestimate Chinese tech at your own peril. :)
They own the most powerful computer in the world, and they also tape out and manufacture the bulk of the technology we Americans consume.
I expect the greatest espionage effort in history was creating inexpensive manufacturing for American high-tech and giving their engineers access to our intellectual property.
It’s very Sun Tzu - They have effectively used our capitalism against us, knowing full well we’d gladly hand the keys to our kingdom over to them if they just produced our tech cheaper.
I hope you are right. It would be easy to make something that looks stealthy rather than having the actual capability.
The canopy frame would detract from stealthiness. It has wing actuator fairings for the trailing control surfaces. The RAM coating is hard to analyze visually but some pictures show a flat gray lustre which could raise questions about RAM composition.
The round exhaust nozzles raise questions about thrust vectoring too, but could be copies of Russian steerable turkey feathers for thrust vectoring. The plane has an extreley long beam with split twin vertical stabilizers. I suspect the lower component is a strake while the upper component is steerable. It appears if that is the case, the verticals are small for the job and it may have some severe lateral stability issues especially when maneuvering under hi G loads.
This plane could well be for national pride more than effectivenss in a Gen 5 environment. The Iranians have been doing something similar with the mock-ups like their drone, miniature aircraft carrier and cloned missile launches. This may all be for internal consumption,
Hell, we stole them from the Germans, who we stole from Germany after the war. Just about every plane built has been a variation of Ze Germans planes. This country was built on the best and brightest from Caucasian countries. Now we are bringing in the dimmest and backwards of the brown people. Like many people have gone on record saying, if America falls, the dark ages come right behind.
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