Posted on 01/08/2011 8:45:42 AM PST by brucek43
June 2009, while speaking at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, “Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended his proposed cuts in the Air Force’s fighter fleet in Fiscal 2010 as part of overall changes to the US tactical air arm. He said under his plan—to cap F-22 production at 187, shed more than 250 legacy fighters, and rely on the F-35 production line henceforth as the sole active source of advanced stealth fighters—the US will still be left with a “numerical and technological edge” that will remain “extremely strong and far superior to that of any potential competitor for at least the next 15 to 20 years.” In fact, Gates said the US will have “roughly 1,200” fifth-generation combat aircraft in 2020, while “the Chinese will have zero.””
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Revelation
On Dec 29, 2010 Chinese bloggers reveled what may be China’s J-20 stealth Aircraft and hinted China would be conducting high-speed taxi tests this month. … Continue Reading:Caught Sleeping on the Watch
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China stealth aircraft Correction, America stealth aircraft copied by China. Even though the chinese tend to poorly copy American planes, the problem is that they mass produce them. Our 187 f-22’s could be facing ten times that number in chinese copies.
China stealth aircraft
It is so stealth that Gates can’t even see it, let alone acknowledge that it exists.... Now that’s stealth, right there.
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