I'm constantly admonished by the normalcy bias folks that the chicoms are hopelessly behind us in military tech, and if they are unable to steal it, they can't even engineer a balsa wood and rubber band airplane.
“the chicoms are hopelessly behind us in military tech”
Trust but verify
_Ronald Reagan
If China had this kind of technology, we would be speaking Mandarin and eating Stinky Tofu.
And if this were Russian technology, Putin would have stomped Zelenski into submission in an afternoon.
Do you feel the same way about people who cry “We are doomed to lose to Communist China!” when they see the Communist aircraft carrier take to sea?
Even though when we look, for those of us who know what to look for, we see planes tied down with slack fabric tie-down straps rather than chains, that the planes they fly from the carrier are so severely handicapped performance-wise that they cannot take off with munitions and a full fuel load, and so on?
How about the people who look at the shining, tall cities like Shanghai and say the day of the West is done, and the day of the East has arrived, but fail to go 10 miles outside the city and see the absolute decay and destruction in all types of construction, not to mention the personal investment losses of people whose only path of investment was in that hoax, and while the losses to them are invisible to all but the Communist Chinese government, those losses are all too visible to those poor people who have lost what little money they have, and will never get it back.
In my opinion, there are people on both sides of this stupidity, and people who thing the Communist Chinese are the wave of the future and the West is full of handwringing loons are every bit as stupid and dangerous as those who think the Communist Chinese are some kind of country of supermen that is making technology so advanced that it appears to us stupid Westerners as alien technology.
Even if it was merely a CCP drone it still needs some form of propulsion and control surfaces to maneuver, of wich none were visible. So whether a drone or an occupied aircraft, HOW could it move and maneuver at blink of an eye rapidity?
“I’m constantly admonished by the normalcy bias folks that the chicoms are hopelessly behind us in military tech...”
Free Republic’s “China is superman” cult is still accepting membership applications.
The Chinese have a cultural concept called ‘shen’ in which things are what they are because that’s what they have to be. So a rock must be a rock, a boat must be a boat, and etc.
This concept has long prevented them from modeling new ideas or modeling at all. Which makes it difficult to innovate because how can you imagine something new if it violates the rules of shen? You can’t.
Thus they did not invent UFO technology. But you can bet your bippy they want to steal it!