Popular Mechanics: China's New Upgrade Makes Its Fighter Jets Wildly Maneuverable
The J-10 fighter plane gets thrust vector control, a technology that allows for wild acrobatic aerial maneuvers.
China's J-10 fighter is now equipped with thrust vectoring controls that allow the jet to perform seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers. This long-rumored upgrade to a well-known jet fighter made its debut at the Zhuhai Air Show.
The Chengdu J-10 “Vigorous Dragon” is a single-engine fighter developed for China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (the Chinese air force). The J-10 falls in the same general category as the American F-16, and the two planes even share the same DNA, as the Chinese jet was built with Israeli assistance from Israel’s F-16-based Lavi fighter. However, in some technological respects, China's plane is about fifteen years behind the F-16 platform, and even further behind modern fighters like the F-35.
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Update: China shows off thrust-vectoring engine in aerobatic show (Asia Times).
WNU Editor: It appears to give a good show, but there is another reason for adopting this capability .... China's new fighter jet is latest military move in arms race (New Zealand Herald).
5 comments:
Ironically "Vigorous Dragon" is also the name given by the Chinese for Donald Trumps hair style...Fred will verify with a link shortly.
Where is Fred, by the way?
Fred is around looking up free porn and copying other people's work or trying to make Trump's mouth look like a _____.
I mean come on what did you expect of that epsilon drone? An IQ of above 79?
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I wish to know what Russia is thinking of that.
He is over 90. The only thing that has kept him alive so far is his hatred of Trump ha ha.
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