Sell them stuff but NOT composite designs and materials, so while their aircraft may look like ours, they are ages behind.
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,
Sell them stuff but NOT composite designs and materials, so while their aircraft may look like ours, they are ages behind.
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I see lots of rivets which don’t look right on a stealth aircraft.