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 countrys homegrown hardware, and a marketplace for those interested in selling to the worlds 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, thats 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; its 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-31s development:
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In a Free Market how do you compete with slave labor? Someone has got to call the Chicoms out on this might as well be us.
Three stumbling blocks for job return — EPA, taxation and labor unions.
I think it would be hard to come up with a list of technology the Chicoms HAVEN'T stole.
Isn't that counterintuitive?
I mean, if you're going for stealth, aren't you trying not to gain attention?
they didn’t reverse engineer anything.
0bama handed it to them a while ago... and no one cared
“China wants to show just how far its arms industry has come, experts say.”
Especially since 2009. Looks like a Rapter.
That is true. But stopping buying all imported products, and appealing to an emotional aspect (such as patriotism, etc) won’t work. It just won’t.
Now, China may take care of that emotional aspect on their own for us, the way Japan did in the 1930’s leading up to WWII, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that. Not that they aren’t capable of doing something over the top heinous to another country (they are a communist country with a heritage of killing millions of their own people, so they are capable of just about anything.) but the world is a different place, and not so easily outraged as we once might have been.
See I believe there is an equally as significant conservative belief, to be for America.
That is increasing, in importance. Significantly I believe.
I understand the supporting free markets, but we also need to support America.
I’m not sure how, but I know that is equally as conservative. Support America.
Sorry that post answers to 16 I believe.
Excuse the mix-up.
Looks cool. What is its radar cross-section and its war-load? How does it compare to a F-35 (since there are going to be darn few F-22s)?
Better stick to advice from the Mall Ninja: http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
Well, they actually exported TWO. The F-22 to China was done without Lockheed's notice.
Conventional cone shaped afterburner exhaust? They are still playing with low tech crap ‘The Bent One’ gave them.
They need to work on their “A” game.
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