Posted on 11/10/2014 7:55:30 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
BEIJING — Amid the whine of high-performance jet engines at the start of an air show in Zhuhai, the Chinese government is hoping to generate a different sort of buzz: admiration, and perhaps purchases, of its shadowy J-31 stealth fighter, which is expected to make its first public appearance.
For almost 20 years, the event, Airshow China, has been a showcase for the country’s homegrown hardware, and a marketplace for those interested in selling to the world’s most populous country. As the country tries to climb into the high-end arms market, it has been eager to display fighters, missiles and drones that it hopes will demonstrate how China can compete on the global stage.
By exhibiting a stealth aircraft at the show, China wants to show just how far its arms industry has come, experts say. The United States is the only country with operational stealth planes, and Lockheed Martin the only company to have successfully exported one, the F-35.
The air show, which starts Tuesday, is widely expected to be “a coming-out party for the J-31,” said John Stillion, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent research institute in Washington.
“The more ambitious the display, probably the closer it is to being ready for prime time. If they fly it, that’s a big deal,” he said. “One of the ways countries try to increase demand for their combat aircraft is displaying them, doing cool stuff at air shows; it’s an opportunity to show off.”
After scrutinizing online videos and squinting at oblique references in Chinese state news media, foreign experts say there are many open questions regarding the J-31’s development:
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People wake up.
America needs factories right here. Stop building up China.
Stop buying everything imported.
Bring back jobs, to America.
Looks like they reverse engineered a F-22.
CC
Cybertheft from American arms industries is rampant. Even if not from US locations, send the plans to Europe and watch security take a nap.
How you figure?
America is sending far too much American industry, to China.
China is now passing America, badly.
Our industry, is sold out. Big time. America needs to bring back industry.
I believe out trade deficit with China is even worse this year, than it has been the last ten years.
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
Yeah, right. "Homegrown."
You mean like the soviets did with the “buran” space shuttle that, like the J-31 looked awful familiar?
CC
” In 1997, China’s total defense budget was about $7 billion; by 2014, it was officially $150 billion, and perhaps much higher, he said.”
Northrop YF-23 clone
Not worth it.
American industry is sold out. Go in any store. Shelf after shelf, of stuff. All of it “Made in China”.
It is this massive yearly, constant trade deficit America is running with China meanwhile, which is contributing meanwhile, to China’s military buildup.
China now has the world’s second-largest military budget.
That is (rapidly) growing.
They will sell if they are cheap. Cheap like the tools they export?
The YF-23 seems to be shaped much differently than this plane. The Chinese plane, to me, more closely resembles the F-22. The diamond planform, the tail feathers, the nose chine of the YF-23 all differ from the Chinese plane.
Sorry. I just think you are approaching it all wrong. Nothing personal, but your approach will simply not work.
We are conservatives here, so it is a more or less a given that free markets with capitalist underpinnings (the ability to make money and own property) are the engines that drive prosperity.
Where I take issue is your assertion that people have to stop buying all imported products.
It will not work. It goes against human nature. It is why capitalism works so well, because few things motivate like money.
What we need to do is make the industrial environment in this country attractive to investors both domestic and foreign, and allow business to do business with minimal government intrusion by decreasing legislation and taxes.
Again, nothing personal here. Your approach simply will not work, encouraging people to just not by imported products.
I wish them luck. I've flown gigantic squadrons of stealth fighters over capitols all across the country, and no one has ever even noticed. I think I need to change my approach. Maybe take less advice from ninjas.
I agree rlmorel. We could look at it this way: Australia has a trade deficit with America (last year the US exported $26 billion to Australia and imported $9 billion from Australia). Should Australia stop importing from America?
I believe that free and fair trade between friendly countries is, on balance, a good thing.
China isn’t exactly what I’d call a friendly country but as it stands now they have America (and the rest of the western world) by the gonads in an economic version of the Cold War ‘MAD’.
How we extract ourselves from this predicament without killing ourselves is the challenge.
If you remember our invasion of Kosovo the Serbs shot down one of our Stealths and what was left of it went to China.
If you remember our invasion of Kosovo the Serbs shot down one of our Stealths and what was left of it went to China.
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