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China Stuns With Heavy Stealth Tactical Jet’s Sudden Appearance
twz ^ | 12 26 2024 | Thomas Newdick and Tyler Rogoway

Posted on 12/26/2024 8:16:00 AM PST by yesthatjallen

In something of a stunning development, China appears to already be flying a stealthy, high-performance sixth-generation crewed combat aircraft, imagery of which began to emerge today. At this early stage, we have very little idea about the precise identity of the new aircraft, but many elements of its design are very much in line with what we already knew about Chinese sixth-generation airpower aspirations.

Video and photos that began to circulate today on social media show the previously unseen aircraft conducting a daytime test flight, alongside a two-seat Chengdu J-20S fighter, serving as a chase plane. The locations and the dates of the various imagery cannot be verified at this stage, although the presence of the J-20 suggests that the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) factory airfield is a likely candidate.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; china; jet; stealth
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1 posted on 12/26/2024 8:16:00 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

So, did we have a clue?


2 posted on 12/26/2024 8:17:28 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

Those hard points under the wing don’t look particularly stealthy


3 posted on 12/26/2024 8:20:37 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts)
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To: yesthatjallen
"Thanks, free traitors, for funding our military buildup and technology."

Signed, the Chinese communists.

4 posted on 12/26/2024 8:21:35 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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To: rktman

“So, did we have a clue?”

Probably not as the Neocons running the government is far too OBSESSED with Russia. But in another 3.5 weeks, things may FINALLY change so that our priorities make some sense.


5 posted on 12/26/2024 8:23:18 AM PST by BobL
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To: Fai Mao

Those don’t look like hardpoints to me. Possibly they are deliberate airflow disruptors of some kind, but they could be made out of radar absorbent materials and therefore not matter since they clearly aren’t intended to carry weapons.


6 posted on 12/26/2024 8:24:29 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: yesthatjallen
This puzzles me. How were the Chinese able to develop such an advanced aircraft?

Oh, wait.

Side note: Don't you dare deny a security clearance to someone born in China, or someone who has close contact with Chinese nationals. That would be racist.

7 posted on 12/26/2024 8:26:39 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I knew I should have learned Mandarin


8 posted on 12/26/2024 8:27:31 AM PST by baclava
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To: yesthatjallen

Any suggestions for quickly learning Mandarin?


9 posted on 12/26/2024 8:28:15 AM PST by montag813
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To: yesthatjallen

Regardless of what type of aircraft this is, or what its stealth capabilities actually are, there is one thing I am certain of: American purchases of anything and everything Chinese helped fund this aircraft’s development and production.

It’s like a convict willingly building the gallows that will hang him.


10 posted on 12/26/2024 8:29:03 AM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

“Thanks, free traitors, for funding our military buildup and technology.”

I don’t see too many folks here openly admitting to being free traitors. Funny how that works.


11 posted on 12/26/2024 8:29:32 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: yesthatjallen
We have more angry tranny soldiers.

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12 posted on 12/26/2024 8:33:28 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: yesthatjallen

10% for the Big Guy.


13 posted on 12/26/2024 8:37:21 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Well this is interesting, it takes an O-5 to write a piece like this.


14 posted on 12/26/2024 8:37:46 AM PST by vmpolesov
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

“Free Trade” wasn’t the problem. The problem was Bill Clinton transferring highly sensitive technology oversight from the Military to the Commerce Dept, under the watchful eye of that known patriot, Eric Holder...

...who immediately transferred it to the Chinese in exchange for...

...illegal Clinton campaign cash donations.


15 posted on 12/26/2024 8:38:42 AM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Leaning Right

There are thousands of Chinese here who are now U.S. citizens who are actively spying for China, let alone Chinese nationals.


16 posted on 12/26/2024 8:39:22 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: yesthatjallen

In a fighter jet air-combat between stealth planes, which one wins if they can’t see each other? ;)


17 posted on 12/26/2024 8:40:12 AM PST by adorno ( )
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To: wildcard_redneck

Unreal.

Monty Python would have rejected this as too absurd.


18 posted on 12/26/2024 8:41:36 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Chinese exaggerate about the range of their fighter jets , they get less than half the range they say


19 posted on 12/26/2024 8:43:19 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: yesthatjallen

Stuns? The J-20 has been knows about for years.


20 posted on 12/26/2024 8:44:05 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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