Posted on 01/01/2011 8:06:08 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
Americans tend not to think outside the box, as was evidenced by our stunned reaction to 9-11. Imagine the following:
1. China tells the world they are going to "absorb" Taiwan peacefully, just as they did Hong Kong. The Taiwanese call on the USA for help.
2. The US federal budget is only 60% funded by internal revenue. The rest is covered by borrowing, much of it from China. China calls in the US debt. The US defaults, casting the US and world economies into chaos. Social Security, military payroll, etc, don't get paid out.
3. Cyber warfare of unknown origin takes out large portions of the US electrical grid and water supplies. The internet goes down, the stock market descends into chaos, airlines can't file flight plans.
4. US recce and comm satellites are hit by Chinese missiles.
5. Chinese special forces slip ashore onto Guam and Okinawa from passing freighters. They race across Andersen and Kadena AFBs throwing satchel charges at F-22s and E-3s and KC-10s. Aircraft arriving at those airfieds are hit by MANPADS from special forces in hiding.
6. Stealthy Chinese J-20s make a sweep across Taiwan and engage Taiwanese F-16s, destroying several, who never even see the J-20s.
7. The Chinese again announce that they are going to "absorb" Taiwan peacefully, just as they did Hong Kong.
The US faces a choice: Start a major war with China over Taiwan with significant damage to the Western world and an uncertain outcome, or gracefully find a way to let the Chinese do what they want without us losing too much face.
That's where the J-20 fits in.
[Source: A comment posted at "12/30/2010 9:15 PM CST" by "meteor" at http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3aa322c6f4-2c93-439d-8051-9e7eb24b5e38&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:114278de-19ae-440e-972f-ec2960663d43#CommentKey:114278de-19ae-440e-972f-ec2960663d43]
Who the hell keeps coming up with these assenine scenarios? see them all over the place, even from Popular Mechanics. Hint...dont quit your day jobs any time soon, and no, you didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
I don’t necessarily see room for that large of an internal weapons bay. If you look at the size of those exhaust nozzles they remind me of the mig 25 and 31. They will need to suck up alot of fuel Russian and chinese engines are not as fuel efficient as western fighters. Historically one of their main problems has been fuel management systems. AS far as stealth is concerned, those inlets look like almost a straight shot back to the engines and I wonder about the materials they have perfected for the surface coatings. As of now, it is quite a complex process to apply them even on western aircraft.
Dead customers can not be repeat customers.
Follow the Ferengi code.
>>The key problem the Chinese have is a lack of AWACs type airborne, all weather, in flight, theater management systems.<<
Within a few years we will give them what they need.
I like the way you think.
Let me add that upon China getting cute with America, the American navy using the excuse of pirates off the African coast, shuts down oil shipments from Africa to China. China runs out of fuel in two weeks.
LOL, I meant Pakistan. India and China are swapping a lot of laughs these days.
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