Posted on 01/21/2011 9:35:19 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The appearance of two all new attack and defend aircraft at the beginning and end of the year just over have both raised issues of substance for the Joint Strike Fighter JSF or F-35 program, and reasons for the US and its allies to carefully review their plans to maintain air superiority.
The first bookend for a poor year for the JSF program was the first flight last January of the Russian PAK-FA The last bookend was the appearance on Chinese internet sites of photos of its J-20 prototype making ground taxi runs.
These aircraft provide western defence organisations with some fierce wake-up material to deal with in 2011, even if they do not include an erroneously reported missile launch from a non-US submarine off the coast from Los Angeles on November 8 last year, which was highlighted in an earlier and now withdrawn Plane Talking post
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