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well, this was expected.

the Clintons did sell them
all US technology including all unissued
US patent applications.

what was not known was that the money would
go to child trafficking, Podestation,
ISIS, slavery and Satanic dinners.

We have to respect China where they graduate over 500,000 engineers each year.

Also note that many of their leaders are engineers, not lawyers.

The Chinese people are quite nationalistic and are happy that China’s restored economic might has made her into a powerful nation again.

While it is true that their espionage operations have been extensive and quite successful, I would not be surprised if their new radar systems relied mostly on their own developments.

The technical principles on how to defeat stealth technology have been known publicly for over 25 years, at least to aerospace engineers.

If the USA wants to remain as the technology leader, we have to streamline our technology development and weapon system development apparatus. I was an aerospace engineer for decades and I have been appalled at the incredible tangle of bureaucracy and political infighting that slows our fielding of new systems while making them outlandishly expensive.

Norm Augustine in his book, “Augustine’s Laws”, forecast decades ago that the rising cost per aircraft would eventually allow the entire DoD budget to purchase ONE per year.

We’re almost there.

This from the article: However, they were fitted with external fuel tanks that allowed them to easily make the trip from Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa to Osan. Large drop tanks hanging off their wings would have ruined their stealthy profile, making them much more visible to radar, so it's not entirely surprising that a radar would have detected them.

Osan to Kadena is about 750 miles. The external wing tanks increase the range of the F-22 to about 1840 miles (open web data). If they had to "make it easy for them to reach Osan" Just what the hell kind of full-stealth range does this plane have (without mid-air refueling)?

And, yes it is very, very difficult to be stealthy against a lower frequency radar because of the wavelengths involved. These Chinese radars are said to be VHF and UHF, one or both of them being a phased array which has a better ability to tailor the received weighting to decrease sidelobes (in essence offering more accurate position determination).....they would also allow for more sophisticated forms of receive processing.....

Actually, everyone knew how to defeat stealth technology: the so-called bi-static radar, where the transmitter is at one location and the receiver is another location.

Insanely hard to make it work in the past due to lack of computational power, modern computer technology has finally made it possible to eliminate that problem. Given the Chinese have built some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they have the know-how to actually make it work. However, to make it work reliably is another thing, though.

So formal intercept becomes possible but would actual targeting be possible..?

on that score I have strong doubts.

if is true this report would mean they can Vector Chinese interceptors to *spectate* upon the impending attack action and maybe do nothing about it.

or very little.