WHAT HAPPENED?
J-15 pilot Zhang Chao was practicing a simulated landing, his jet’s control system suddenly malfunctioned on touchdown, causing the jet to pitch up quickly. 4.4 seconds later, Zhang ejected from the cockpit at an altitude that was not high enough above the ground for his parachute to function, and Zhang fell [to his death].”
The Chinese regime had no carrier-based fighter jets. Initially, it wanted to buy them from Russia but was not able to negotiate an acceptable price. It later got a Su-33 prototype, T-10K-7, from Ukraine, so it decided to make its own carrier-based fighter jet J-15 by imitating the Su-33 prototype. However, T-10K-7 has its inherent major flaws for a carrier-based jet, making it difficult for the J-15 to pass critical tests.
After Zhang’s death, he was praised as a national “martyr,” but actually he was a victim of the Chinese regime’s attempt to copy technology it had stolen.
Loose Lips Sinks Ships
getting them in the air is easy, landing is easy but messier if yer a foo
So this death occurred five years ago, and we think by now the Chinese haven’t corrected the problem?
Some time in the last year or so, I saw a video of them doing a dog-and-pony show with their carrier operations, and they were using nylon straps like the ones used for luggage racks on cars to secure the planes to the pad eyes on the deck.
Unbelievable. Not chains. Nylon straps. Now, I could be wrong, but I don’t think those straps have what it takes over time to secure a plane in anything less than a calm sea (which is what it was in the video)
I don’t get on their case for crashing a plane...carrier operations are more difficult than people in general think they are. We crash planes too.
There is something completely off about their military operations I have seen that makes me want to discount them, but I don’t...simply because of the technology and industry they have stolen from us, and the money they have to throw at their military. Money and quantity have a quality all of their own, and we have handed that to them.
But I do believe there is something fundamentally unsound about Communist China, and it is a cultural thing. They build things that are simply bad, and there appears to be a lack of individual desire to maintain anything collectively as would be done in a military unit.
I saw a video about a British guy who lived in Communist China for something like five years teaching English, and he traveled all over the country and said it was lacking everywhere he went, that collective responsibility for maintaining things.
He said he lived in an apartment building that was a reasonably nice building by Chinese construction standards, and looked from the outside like something you might see in New Orleans, white stucco with wrought iron railing areas outside each apartment that you might be able to step out on with three people, about that size.
He said the stucco was all cracked and broken, and there were long streaks of brown rust running down from each wrought iron balcony. And not a single person would even think of maintaining it, scraping the rust and painting the wrought iron, or patching the cracked stucco and whitewashing it.
Inside, they had an elevator with one light in it. The light never worked, ever. So whenever he got on, it was pitch black up to his floor. It was apparently something wrong with the fixture not the bulb, so he tried to collect some money from his fellow renters to buy a new light fixture for the light-less elevator.
Not a single person-nobody-offered to help pay for it. Not one. And he said this attitude was EVERYWHERE in Communist China.
Now, I don’t know. I have never been there. But this guy had, and the way he described it had the ring of truth to me. The concept of mowing a lawn? Not even that.
So when I see their military, I think they may have some equipment that is good for them and dangerous to us, and a lot of it, but...that attitude they have culturally I think works against them.
I am not discounting them. But they aren’t supermen either, I don’t think.
—— Xi Jinping should be aware of that, -——
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