Posted on 03/21/2006 1:53:09 AM PST by Flavius
Let's call it the 3-frogs.........
But, turning a mockup into a working desing is still a HUGE leap. Actually having the technology and skill to produce the types of materials needed, the electronics needed, the avionisc, the comm, the stealth, the tracking and acquisition, let alone the armaments to successfully compete with the likes of the F-22 is still beyond them (like 5-10 years).
However, if they produce say, F-15 quality or better aircraft in some numbers (and with this, the J-10, the SU-30's, etc. that they are building by the hundreds they are approaching being able to do that), then they may be in a position to have enough technology and the numbers to overwhelm us. That's my bigger concern.
Left alone and funded long enough, they will compete head to head with our best...I pray that doesn't happen, that we will come to our senses economically and diplomatically to force the issue on our terms as opposed to theirs.
"You must think in Russian"
Great looking plane, now they just need some pilots.
Unfortunately, their best guy Wong Wei (pronounced "W(r)ong Way") still sleeps with the fishes after tangling with our E3 surveillance plane back in April 2001.
Bump!
Not really. After all, Boeing wants to do it's carbon composite manufacturing in China in order to cut costs. What the Clintons didn't give the Chinese, American manufacturers are more than willing to provide in order to keep the prices low at Wal Mart.
It's a matter of time.
The Chinese however don't seem too anxious in mass building any of their current designs (like J-10, etc). They are clearly first trying to amass different skills and technologies, and when the time is right, they will start building like no tomorrow.
They are probably going to navalize their J-10's too soon.
If their pilots are as good as their race car drivers (see A1GP) we've got nothing to worry about, the stealth fighter will be in the wall before turn 2.
"Great looking plane, now they just need some pilots."
Too bad about Wong Wei, but whatever happened to his wingman, Lt Sum Yung Gui?
What is even worse is this is based off of the MiG 1.44 and the Sukhoi SU-47 stealth programs in Russia. The Russians gave China the specs for these programs, and are working together to design the stealth craft.
This is to save time and money, and to foster an even stronger strategic relationship between China and Russia.
Bump!
First things first, the image is a digitally created fake. A sophisticated one and whoever did it was quite skillful, but it is not real. There are however aerodynamic scale models of proposed J-14 variants that are real (but different than this picture) but those photos lack detail and are quite small.
Secondly, even if it were real, those are claiming it is a copy are obviouslly clueless. There is no other existing aircraft that even bears any remote similarities to the aircraft in the picture. The Su-47 was a heavily modified Su-27 airframe with forward swept wings. The Mig 144 project is only superficially similar in that both are twin engined planes featuring canards. Taken that to its natural conclusion, the aircraft in the picture would also be copy of the Gripen, Rafale, Eurofighter, the J-10, and any other aircraft with a canard that has ever flown.
And I don't know why people are still blaming Clinton for everything, p.s. It's been 6 years since he left office.
It is a Sukhoi SU-47 aircraft.
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