F-35 and F-22. Photo from Military Photos And Photoshops
How China Will Track—and Kill—America’s Newest Stealth Jets -- Bill Sweetman, Daily Beast
A gang of advanced missiles and a bleeding-edge radar unveiled at a Chinese air show could mean big trouble for the Pentagon’s best fighters.
Once, no magic act was complete without the magician’s revealingly dressed assistant. Her job was not merely to be sawn in half but to dominate the mostly male audience’s attention at moments when a focus on the whereabouts of the rabbit might blow the gaff.
That was a useful lesson to bear in mind at last month’s Zhuhai air show—China’s only domestic air and defense trade show, held once every other year.
If anything at Zhuhai was wearing fishnets and high heels, it was the Shenyang FC-31 stealth fighter, which resembles a twin-engine version of America’s newest stealth jet, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But the real tricks lay in Beijing’s growing family of advanced missiles and radars.
The FC-31 prototype was hidden except when it was flying, and not much detail was available. But the display was notable for the eruptions of smoke from the engines, most likely Russian RD-93s.
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My Comment: The F-35 program is a one trillion U.S. dollar program because of it's superior and unique stealth technologies and avionics .... and now we are being told that this is no longer the case ?!?!?!?!
Why does this not surprise me.
From the start, the F-35 was a welfare program for the MIC, it was never really intended as a stealth strike fighter to take on China, or Russia, but instead, an overpriced, underpriced "bomb truck" intended to take on Third World nations.
ReplyDeleteSorry, replace underpriced, with underperforming,
ReplyDeleteCurses on you Autocorrect!!!!!!!!!!!
I disagree with you jay. English is not my first language .... Thank GOD for Autocorrect.
ReplyDeleteI've got the one in the buggy os8.1.1 that keeps guessing at what I want to say, overwrites my text, and won't let me shut it down until I upload the next os fix.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a 3rd world country?
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. is a 3rd world country.
What recovery? A fortune 100 corporation produces 16% of its' product line in a BRIC nation. It is not produced in America anymore. The BRIC nation would have been considered the 3rd world in the 1960s. So what is a 3rd world nation?
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Having air superiority over a 3rd world country is nothing to sneeze at.
Before the main events in WW2, Britain and Russia rolled up Iran, Iraq, Syria and Ethiopia. Read the book "The Road to Mandalay".
Would Iran, Iraq, Syria and Ethiopia have been considered in WW2? If those countries had not been rolled up earlier, then perhaps in 1942 they would have caused trouble?
If Ethiopia was not so easily rolled up. The Suez canal become pretty useless.
If Iran was not in the allied camp maybe no oil come from Iran or form Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Then what would the Brits have done?